Questions are already arising about whether ABC’s ‘Nightline’ is justified in airing its ‘bombshell’ interview with Marianne Gingrich, an ex-wife of Newt Gingrich.?
As the Newt Gingrich campaign confronts uncomfortable revelations from the candidate’s second wife, Marianne Gingrich, that he asked her for ?an open marriage? ? charges that will air Thursday night on ABC?s “Nightline” ? questions are also surfacing about about the network?s motivations for broadcasting it now.?
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Does ABC have it in for Mr. Gingrich? Is the show timed to hurt his prospects, which have been rising, in Saturday’s South Carolina primary? Why dredge up now something that happened 10 years ago??
The full interview won?t run until after the CNN-sponsored GOP presidential debate Thursday evening, but clips of it have gone viral on the Internet, and reporter Brian Ross appeared on ABC?s ?The View? to discuss the potential effect of Mrs. Gingrich’s interview. ?She spoke in measured tones,? he said, attempting to play down what co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck introduced as ?bombshell? allegations.” He also noted that the final impact is ?for the voters to decide.?
Defending the network?s decision to broadcast the interview two days before the South Carolina primary, Mr. Ross noted that ABC has been scrutinizing all the candidates, pointing to its reports Wednesday night on Mitt Romney?s possible tax evasions. Beyond that, he said the interview took place on Friday. ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider says “Nightline” ?reached out to the Gingrich campaign? for a response. The candidate has declined to comment on the allegation.
?This is one of the toughest decisions news executives and producers face,? says former ABC News producer John Goodman, via e-mail. ?You have a story that can impact a political campaign. Do you go with it, or sit on it?? he says. ?The journalist in you says you have to air it. But you clearly understand that by doing so, you create a PR nightmare.?
The fact that most of Mrs. Gingrich’s comments are ?old news,? and that the South Carolina primary is days away, feeds the ?suspicion by the average American that ABC has a liberal bias and can?t wait to air the story to destroy Gingrich?s presidential hopes,? Mr. Goodman says. In obtaining the interview, he adds, ABC must ask itself this question: Does she have a vendetta to destroy her ex-husband? ?There?s no clean-cut, no-brainer, right-or-wrong answer,? he says. “You just have to do what you feel is the right decision.?
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NEW YORK ? ABC News plans to air an interview with the second wife of Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich on “Nightline” just two days before the GOP’s South Carolina primary.
Excerpts from the interview with Marianne Gingrich will be released during the day Thursday, ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider said, ahead of both a Republican candidate debate Thursday evening in Charleston, S.C., and ABC’s late-night news program.
ABC News has not indicated what Marianne Gingrich said in the interview. Her ex-husband has said that they don’t have a relationship.
The interview comes as Gingrich, the former House speaker, is trying to topple GOP front-runner Mitt Romney by casting himself as the more conservative option in the GOP presidential race. It would shine a spotlight on a part of Gingrich’s past that could turn off Republican voters in a state filled with religious and cultural conservatives who may cringe at Gingrich’s two divorces and acknowledged infidelities.
Marianne Gingrich has said Gingrich proposed to her before the divorce from his first wife was final in 1981; they were married six months later. Her marriage to Gingrich ended in divorce in 2000, and Gingrich has admitted he’d already taken up with Callista Bisek, a former congressional aide who would become his third wife. The speaker who pilloried President Bill Clinton for his affair with Monica Lewinsky was himself having an affair at the time.
As plans to air the interview were disclosed, Gingrich’s campaign released a statement from his two daughters from his first marriage ? Kathy Lubbers and Jackie Cushman ? suggesting that Marianne Gingrich’s comments may be suspect given emotional toll divorce takes on everyone involved.
“Anyone who has had that experience understands it is a personal tragedy filled with regrets, and sometimes differing memories of events. We will not say anything negative about our father’s ex-wife,” they said. “He has said before, privately and publicly, that he regrets any pain he may have caused in the past to people he loves.”
A message seeking comment from Marianne Gingrich was not immediately returned.
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Associated Press writers Shannon McCaffrey in South Carolina and Ray Henry in Georgia contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) ? Score one for ABC News in the ratings department.
Saturday night’s GOP debate was the most-watched of the 2012 campaign as an average of 7.6 million viewers tuned in to watch the presidential candidates take on such hot topics as unemployment and immigration.
Despite a relatively late start time — 9 p.m. on the East Coast — 2.1 million of those viewers were in the key adults 25-54 demographic.
Both of those numbers beat the previous highs, held by Fox News in total viewers (6.11 million on September 22) and MSNBC in the demographic (1.73 million on September 7).
They were also well ahead of the numbers for the only other debate on one of the major broadcast networks, CBS News’ debate on Nov 12.
Moderated by Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos, the ABC debate was broadcast live from Des Moines, Iowa, with the Iowa caucus — the first of the election season — less than a month away.
Between the two current frontrunners — Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich — Gingrich was seen as the winner of the contest, which was also hosted by Yahoo News, the Republican Party of Iowa and the Des Moines Register.
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