NPR conducted an interview with Newt Gingrich for Friday’s ‘All Things Considered’ to highlight how effective Biden has been. “Newt Gingrich thinks the GOP needs to quit underestimating Biden,” read their headline on NPR.org. When Newt claimed that things like Twitter censoring and Zuckerbucks were “rigging” the 2020 election, anchor Mary Louise Kelly derailed, as was her attempts to control the narrative of this interview.
She asked what advice he would give Trump for 2024, and he said “if you’re going to run, run as a candidate looking to the future. Run as a candidate of big solutions and big ideas, and run as a candidate of the whole country. You know, don’t run focused on 2020 election results, and don’t run only as a MAGA candidate focused on the right wing of the Republican Party because that’s not going to win.”
Here’s where the whole thing came off the rails because nuts like Kelly are deranged when it comes to anyone who questions the 2020 results. This is how that went:
KELLY: But that has been what he has wanted to talk about – I mean, his repeated false claims about a stolen election, which I have to note you supported and talked about and spread. That did seem to fall flat with midterm voters. Is – how big a problem is that for Republicans?
GINGRICH: Look. I’ll be cheerful about coming back some time, and we can devote an entire interview to whether it was a rigged election – not necessarily stolen but certainly rigged. And we can start with all the Twitter information, and we can start with Zuckerberg’s $415 million.
KELLY: I just need to pause you there because it’s not me saying this. This is dozens of courts across the U.S. that have rejected claims of rigged elections.
GINGRICH: No, no. They rejected claims of stolen elections. Nobody ever looked at rigging.
KELLY: For the record, do you believe Joe Biden was legitimately elected president?
GINGRICH: For the record, I believe that he won under the terms that were set up, and I think that the entire elite system cheated in every way they could to defeat Donald Trump.
KELLY: I need to push you on this before we go on. I’m not hearing you say you believe he was legitimately elected.
GINGRICH: I believe he won under the rules, and I think that the system that elected him did everything it could to rig the game, including, for example, Twitter kicking off the incumbent president of the United States, kicking off the New York Post. I just did a podcast about this that we’re releasing with a New York Post reporter who – Miranda Devine, who can walk you through step by step.
Newt refrained from being so confrontational as to point out to the NPR anchor that part of the “rigging” might have been NPR and its “Public Editor” brushing off the Hunter Biden laptop as a “total distraction” and a “time-wasting non-story.” Then Kelly just starts spiraling to the point where she hilariously declares, “I’m not arguing you!”
KELLY: So when…
GINGRICH: You think it didn’t affect things to have Twitter do that? You don’t think that doesn’t affect things?
KELLY: Let me…
GINGRICH: Have Google refuse to deliver Republican fundraising emails?
KELLY: Let me focus you on where we are now because I heard you making the case that…
GINGRICH: You’re the one who wanted to go back to the past. I’m happy to debate you about the nature of the 2020 campaign.
KELLY: I’m not debating you. I’m trying to figure out what you think and why. And I want to focus you on the point you were making about – whoever becomes the GOP nominee in the next presidential election, you would like to see them run – what were your words? – for the country. On policy. So lay out for me what you see that as – what that looks like.
Kelly took a moment to regain her composure and continued the interview. The entire interview can be heard here:
NPR presents itself as a publically funded non-bias news outlet but the reality is that’s not really true. Not only did they help bury the Hunter Biden laptop story, but the network’s bias is also evident in the fact that Kelly did not mention liberal election deniers. She never once brought up Georgia’s twice failed results denier Stacey Abrams.
