Note to Norah O’Donnell: Don’t mess with Newt.
The former speaker of the House called out MSNBC’s O’Donnell Tuesday after she implied Gingrich had made racist comments at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference for a basketball reference he joked about when criticizing President Obama.
“The left is becoming a parody of itself … she immediately said that must be a racist comment,” he told reporters at a breakfast at the Americans for Tax Reform headquarters. “It’s relatively hard to go from, ‘we need somebody who is a good president more than somebody who shoots three points shots,’ to, ‘that must have been racist.'”
In other not-so-surprising media news, Gingrich also applauded Fox’s Glenn Beck.
“I think Glenn Beck, in a way that almost no liberal understands, is actually having a very positive impact because he’s actually leading people back to reading books,” he said. “There’s a whole national movement now taking seriously what did the Founding Fathers intend? What does the Constitution mean? What should the limits of government be? I think that’s all very healthy.”
