Hannity Praises Gingrich And His "Extended Standing Ovation" For Attacking John King

His whining should have been an embarassment to any man. Newt is without honor

I call on Newt to name one person in this "elitist liberal media" that is telling people what we can and cannot say. I'm willing to bet that he can't do it.

King should have asked Newt why he felt justified attacking Clinton for having no family values while he was cheating on his wife at the same time. Then follow that up with why abused his power as speaker to ram through impeachment proceedings against Clinton.

I don't understand Hannity on this one.

He's been complaining that the media didn't question Obama about Ayers and Wright and they gave him a free pass. But now the media is questioning Gingrich about his private life.

How can Hannity simultaneously attack the media for going after someone's private life and then also attack them for not going after someone else's private life.

OK, he's trying to prove a point about how politically biased the media is.

Unfortunately, Obama was being severely questioned and interrogated for years about his personal life by Hannity, his colleagues on Fox and Talk Radio. Meanwhile, Hannity is the master at lobbing softball interviews and letting republicans do damage control and on his show.

So, it's okay for Hannity and Fox to be biased and nobody else? If Hannity wanted real credibility on this issue, he would have said that it was RIGHT for the media not to go after Obama's private life and it is WRONG for them now to go after Gingrinch.

But we all know this game.

What's funny is that hannity and crew believes that wingnut audience was actually representative of America. Not.

A bunch of Mayberry Machiavellians.

Newt would have brought it up at some point during the debate anyway. He wanted to get his licks in at the media in retaliation for his ex-wife's interview in front a raucous crowd and a national TV audience.

Has Newt or any other Teahadist come down on the Drudge Report for putting the Newt's second ex-wife's story out before the SC primary? ( ABC had planned to wait until next week before running the interview but Drudge let the world know first.)

I didn't think so.

What a fool attacking the media, They made you. they can bring you back to earth without a blink.

If newt were a democrat Hannity would have a VERY different attitude.

See now, if Obama did this to a journalist we wold be hearing about how he is trying to destroy free speech and how he shouldn't attack the media. You can count on that one.

Down deep they are all thanking John King for asking the question. It allowed Newt to become a "hero" to the right for adequately articulating his pre-planned response.

i wonder if #4 is voteing today??

i would not trust newton with the 3am. telephone call, unless his rear end, kkklannity & limpbag, is aboard the first missle launched!!!

"Core American values."

You just can't make Newt up.

He should also praise Newt for his astute tax planning.

Lubbers Agency, Inc. and Gingrich Holdings, Inc. are apparently S corporations. Schedule E to the Gringrichs' tax return shows them as deriving approximately $2.5 million from them as corporate profits, which is certainly mostly attributable Gingrich Holdings, Inc. Line 7 of their 1040 shows approximately $450,000 in wages, and the "salary and wages" report shows Newt as being paid $252,500 of that as salary by Gingrich Holdings, Inc.

So the total income that Newt got from Gingrich Holdings, Inc. was about $2.75 million, $252,000 in wages and the rest as corporate profits, not taxed at the corporate level but at the shareholder level to the S corporation election.

So what, you may ask?

Well, the so what is that profits derived through S corporations aren't subject to the Medicare tax, which is imposed on self-employment income without any limitation (imposition of FICA/Social Security tax, by contrast was limited to the first $106,000 of income in 2010). By being an S corporation rather than say a partnership or an LLC, and paying himself a paltry salary compared to what he was getting paid, Newt and Callista saved about $75,000 in self-employment/Medicare tax.

Callista, per Schedule SE, paid $268 in self-employment tax on $10,000 in directors' fees from someplace.

This became notorious when it came to light in 2004 that John Edwards was using this tactic with respect to his law practice, paying himself $320,000 in wages and claiming the rest was corporate profits rather than income from self-employment. Needless to say, he was widely criticized for it by current fans of Newt.

The question I would like to ask Newt is whether he was the highest paid employee of Gingrich Holdings, Inc. and if not who was it who was more valuable to the company than him. Then I would like him to compare his wage compensation to the wages and earnings of comparable lobbyists, consultants, lawyers, and "historians".

The IRS has repeatedly said it will challenge people using this scam if they pay themselves inordinately low wages in order to avoid the 2.9% Medicare tax.

I'm thrilled that Baby Huey is the new Republican favorite.

Congratulations Hamster. You're backing a corrupt serial adulterer with an ego even larger than yours.

Can we add Newt to Hannity the King Maker's wall of fame along with:

Doug Hoffman
Sharon Angle
Christine O'Donnell

Oh wait, you're not actually backing the Grinch. Want to be able to host them all your little propaganda hour.