{"id":6862,"date":"2012-04-12T12:53:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T19:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6862"},"modified":"2012-04-12T14:27:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T21:27:32","slug":"post-primary-report-what-will-become-of-rick-santorum-and-newt-gingrich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6862","title":{"rendered":"Post Primary Report: What Will Become Of Rick Santorum And Newt Gingrich?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that the Republican presidential primary is effectively over (sorry Ron Paul, you were always a joke, even to your own party), what will losers Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich find to while away all the free time on their hands?<\/p>\n

Well, there will certainly be books to peddle and speaking engagements. And, of course, they can be retained as lobbyists for the one-percenters on whom their campaigns were focused. But the easiest job, because it requires no work, research, or investment, is media pundit, a role both Santorum and Gingrich played just prior to their primary candidacies.<\/p>\n

However, the jobs that Santorum and Gingrich had at Fox News may not be waiting for them now that they are available again. Both of them have had rather uncomplimentary things to say about Fox during their campaigns:<\/p>\n

Santorum<\/a>: The media has just completely tried to shape this race. And not just the liberal media. It’s even Fox News. You know, Bill O’Reilly has refused to put me on his program. As far as he was concerned I wasn’t a worthy enough candidate to earn a spot to sit across from him and be on his program. Here you have folks supposedly in the conservative media who are saying, “You know, we’re gonna choose who are gonna win.”<\/em> And then complain that the mainstream media does the same thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Santorum<\/a>: The man has had a ten-to-one money advantage. He’s had all the organizational advantage. He has Fox News shilling for him every day \u2014 no offense, Brian, but I see it. And yet he can’t seal the deal because he just doesn’t have the goods to be able to motivate the Republican base and win this election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gingrich<\/a>: I think FOX has been for Romney all the way through. Callista and I both believe CNN is less biased than FOX this year. We are more likely to get neutral coverage out of CNN than we are of FOX, and we’re more likely to get distortion out of FOX. That’s just a fact. […] We’re going to go to the White House Correspondents’ dinner because [Callista] wants to. And we’re actually going to go to CNN’s table, not FOX.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wouldn’t be surprised if CNN or MSNBC signed these guys – disappointed, but not surprised. However, they may have better luck with GBTV, Glenn Beck’s Internet site. Especially Santorum whom Beck told during an interview<\/a> that he wanted to kiss “in the mouth.”<\/em><\/p>\n

[Update]<\/strong> Fox responds to Newt<\/a>: “This is nothing other than Newt auditioning for a windfall of a gig at CNN\u2014that’s the kind of man he is,” a spokeswoman for Fox News responded in a statement to Yahoo News. “Not to mention, he’s still bitter about the fact that we terminated his contributor contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that the Republican presidential primary is effectively over (sorry Ron Paul, you were always a joke, even to your own party), what will losers Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich find to while away all the free time on their hands? Well, there will certainly be books to peddle and speaking engagements. And, of course, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[33,568,872],"class_list":["post-6862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-fox-news","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-rick-santorum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1MG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3983,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3983","url_meta":{"origin":6862,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Suspends Newt Gingrich And Rick Santorum Pending Presidential Campaign Plans","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/2\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Under pressure from within both political and media circles, Fox News has finally conceded that it is inappropriate to continue providing a free platform for presidential candidates who are also Fox News contributors. 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