{"id":6237,"date":"2012-01-22T09:44:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T17:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6237"},"modified":"2012-01-22T09:46:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T17:46:04","slug":"fox-news-psycho-analyst-newt-gingrichs-adultery-means-a-stronger-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6237","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Psycho Analyst: Newt Gingrich’s Adultery Means A Stronger America"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republican Party has long sought to position itself as the party of family values. They fiercely defend what they call “traditional”<\/em> marriage. They are the epitome of the faithful, sacred, one-man, one-woman, Till Death Do Us Party.<\/p>\n

Except when it is politically inconvenient.<\/p>\n

With the Republican primary race settling down to a two man contest between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, the GOP Defense Squad (aka Fox News) is jumping out in front of a potentially devastating calamity.<\/p>\n

By now most voters are aware that Newt Gingrich is an abhorrent slug who has cheated on multiple wives and divorced them when they were ill. He even engaged in a tryst with a young woman on his staff while he was leading the effort to impeach Bill Clinton for having a tryst with a young woman on his staff. The argument made repeatedly was that a public servant who could not be trusted to keep his marital vows, could not be trusted with the responsibility of leadership – that character matters.<\/p>\n

Now that a Gingrich primary victory is being perceived as plausible, the martinets of virtue are coming forward with modified tenets of behavior that not only absolve Gingrich of his sins, but cast him as paragon of principle and morality.<\/p>\n

This unexpected and unseemly turn of events is exemplified by Rush Limbaugh who related a story to his radio audience that expressed sympathy for Gingrich as the victim in his marital woes, and praised his open infidelity as “a mark of character.”<\/em> But no one can come close to the Fox News editorial by alleged psychiatrist Keith Ablow titled, “Newt Gingrich’s Three Marriages Mean He Might Make A Strong President – Really!”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ablow is the resident Fox News psychiatrist and a co-author of a book with Glenn Beck. Ablow’s treatise on the merits of infidelity commence with the assertion that the whole affair is just a creation of the media that is “trying to castrate candidates for the prurient pleasure of the public.”<\/em> It’s a position that appears to defend promiscuity. How dare the media expect pious politicians to live the chaste lives of the little people they govern? Our leaders, Ablow implies, must not be rendered impotent by standards of conduct that need only apply to peasants – and Democrats. Then Ablow condescends to dictate the import of these events to the peons who populate the Fox family:<\/p>\n

“I will tell you what Mr. Gingrich’s personal history actually means<\/strong> for those of us who want to right the economy, see our neighbors and friends go back to work, promote freedom here and abroad and defeat the growing threat posed by Iran and other evil regimes.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What a relief. Ablow will tell us the meaning of it all, which saves us the trouble of having to think for ourselves. And the first thing he wants us to know is that the age-old dogma of conservative politics – that character matters – is a myth:<\/p>\n

“You can take any moral position you like about men and women who cheat while married, but there simply is no correlation, whatsoever \u2014 from a psychological perspective \u2014 between whether they can remain true to their wedding vows and whether they can remain true to the Oath of Office.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ablow, of course, is directly contradicting Gingrich himself, and the standard Gingrich set while he was trying to impeach Clinton. But Ablow is not deterred. He then lays out a five-point justification for how a serial adulterer is better able to make America stronger:<\/p>\n