Mr. Gingrich\u2019s performance in the debate in Tampa on Monday night was far more muted. Critics noted that he seemed to be off his game. The National Journal, which co-hosted the NBC debate, compared Gingrich to \u201ca stand-up comedian whose routine suffers without echoes of laughter egging him on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. Gingrich clearly noticed something was off, too. \u201cWe\u2019re going to serve notice on future debates,\u201d he told Fox. \u201cWe\u2019re just not going to allow that to happen. That\u2019s wrong. The media doesn\u2019t control free speech. People ought to be allowed to applaud if they want to.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Hmmm…., I wonder how Newt feels about boos.<\/p>\n
Limerick Ode To Newt’s Latest Temper Tantrum
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
No cheering at last night’s debate!
\nThis has Gingrich quite peeved and irate.
\nHe says cheers from the crowd
\nSimply must be allowed.
\nWithout cheers, will Newt Gingrich deflate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Newt Gingrich seemed way off his game at last night’s Florida debate. And at first, I attributed this to Mitt Romney’s new, improved debating style. But Newt apparently needs the adrenalin rush that comes with cheers and applause. And last night’s NBC debate rules precluded such a rush: Audience feedback was limited, in the interest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,124,21,20,26,126,519,6,7,3,9],"tags":[2786,325,194,1088,2911,2783,1788,275,1250,508,729],"class_list":["post-6257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-humor","category-debate-humor","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-media-satire","category-mitt-romney-humor","category-newt-gingrich-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","tag-campaign-humor","tag-debate-limerick","tag-election-humor","tag-first-amendment","tag-florida","tag-free-speech","tag-media-bashing","tag-media-humor","tag-mitt-romney","tag-nbc","tag-newt-gingrich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6257"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6272,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257\/revisions\/6272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}