Gingrich Daughters: “Open Marriage” Claim Is Simply Not True
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, January 19, 2012, 6:19 PM
Newt Gingrich’s two adult daughters said that charges that Newt wanted an open marriage are categorically false.
The ABC interview with Marianne Gingrich will air tonight on Nightline.
ABC reported:
Newt Gingrich’s two adult daughters said that charges by Gingrich’s second wife in an interview with ABC News that the GOP presidential contender asked for an “open marriage” are categorically false.
Kathy Lubbers and Jackie Cushman, Gingrich’s daughters by his first wife, told ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross they had spoken with their father about Marianne Gingrich’s allegation and that he had assured them he never asked for an open marriage.
“We spoke with him about that, Brian, and he said it’s simply not true,” said Kathy Lubbers. “The truth is our father and Marianne had a difficult marriage. They had a difficult divorce. … The American people have moved on. Our father has moved on.”
“I think most divorces are very painful, they’re never easy,” said Jackie Cushman. “Dad tried very hard to make their marriage work, and unfortunately it didn’t.”
In an interview to be broadcast on “Nightline,” her first since her 1999 split from the former Speaker of the House, Marianne Gingrich told Ross that Gingrich sought an “open marriage” arrangement so he could have a mistress and a wife.
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Published May 23, 2012 at 4:57 am - 64 Comments
Omahan commented:
Damn that was a short news cycle. And to think that Warren Buffet was just about to endorse Newt based on a shared proclivity for open relationships. And we haven’t even mentioned Barack and his “beard”…
vangrungy commented:
In any split, the children know the truth..
siding with dad shows the score..
That’s why women try so hard to alienate their kids from their father.. but things are changing as more and more fathers are demanding to be the dad’s they are entitled to be and want to be..
Shared (50-50) custody should always be the starting point for all divorces.. just saying.
Remco Kimber commented:
Yeah, I too would want an open marriage, an open door marriage as an escape from this one,
gee! commented:
Newt meets Marianne Ginther on 1981 at fund-raiser……….she just broken-up with a married man who is the father of three………..and meets Newt who is still married to his first wife who also is the father of two children……..so apparently Marianne wasn’t completely oppose to “open marriage’ here………since she had been dating a married with 3 children before she hood-up with Newt………..who was still married and the father of two,,,,,,,,just sayin
lakewriter commented:
Who are we to judge a divorce? I thought the Clinton supporters said what goes on in your family is off-limits, or something to that effect. All that said, and perhaps I am being unfair, but in watching the clip, this woman does not look happy, rather, angry. Tie that with the timing of this interview and I come up with one word: revenge.
gee! commented:
Thats hocked-up not hood-up……….my bad
reliapundit commented:
THE KIDS MIGHT NOT HAVE KNOWN.
I BELIEVE HER.
HE’S A SLEAZEBALL.
A PHONY.
UNTRUSTWORTHY.
AND HE ATTACKED RYAN AND CAPITALISM JUST TO GET HIS ROCKS OFF.
HE’S NOT WORTHY OF THE HIGH OFFICE HE SEEKS.
C-Christian Soldier commented:
newt is a SHACK-and deserves NOT our vote-
C-CS
Taqiyyotomist commented:
OT
It continues in Filthadelphia:
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2012/01/19/vietnam-vet-randomly-attacked-by-teens-on-olney-street/
That’s right, the author of the article said “randomly”. Again with the lies and the coverup.
And yes, I know. I’m racist for noticing the omission of relevant “hatefacts” from the article.
C-Christian Soldier commented:
BTW-off thread-
Dept heads did not get the message that the Seante and House backed off of SOPA (H) and PIPA (S) so ‘anonymous’ shut down the DoJ site As Well As several others-
http://carolmsblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/anonymous-shuts-down-dept-of-justice.html
C-CS
vangrungy commented:
reliapundit,
did I spook you?
vangrungy commented:
obviously Newt’s ex is a sociopath..
squeaky commented:
separated for 6 years of an 18 year marriage….
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/288534/gingrich-called-her-husband-his-birthday-robert-costa
vangrungy commented:
C-Christian Soldier,
That’s the fascist ANON making internet censorship a necessity by emergency order…
cheering that is stupid as we will all suffer from the collusion between the NWO and ANON..
keep giving the ‘ruling class’ reasons to ‘clamp down’..
BarbaraS commented:
Newt is pretty smart. Why would he give this woman ammunition for the futue? He has lived a very public life and anything and everthing about him was and is news according to the media. Unless, of course, he thought she would go along with it and her background indicates she would. Then again, why not just do both on the sly like all the rest of th adulterers and not tell the wife? Sounds like a rocky marriage and a rocky divorce. This is one bitter woman.
bg commented:
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“Open Marriage” Claim Is Simply Not True
i agree, heck, she didn’t even say that he said that..
again, so much time wasted when so much needs to be discussed..
help.. *sigh*
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Larkin commented:
Re: the upcoming debate…
CNN has already displayed their bias by have a Romney staffer as one of it’s three member “panel”, commenting on the debate just prior to it, and I believe after.
mcc commented:
Ten minutes to show time. A pre-debate prediction from legalinsurrection – Get Newt:
http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/01/pre-debate-prediction-get-newt/
(link in comments section to live feed)
bg commented:
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debate in 4 min..
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iconoclast commented:
In my experience ex’s have a real tendency to remember words never uttered, particularly if the marriage was troubled. But being married to a mentally disturbed liberal (I know, I am repeating myself) might have biased me….
Amino commented:
Wait….so….their assertion that it isn’t true is based on the
following:
“We asked dad, and he ASSURED us it wasn’t true”.
True or not, that’s pretty weak
bg commented:
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re debate:
National Anthem sung by the Cadets form the Citadel
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Blackbird commented:
How long until Marianne Gingrich appears with Gloria Allred? I swear I’ve seen this dance move before somewhere…
Luddite commented:
“AND HE ATTACKED RYAN AND CAPITALISM JUST TO GET HIS ROCKS OFF.”
No. Even Paul Ryan withdrew his original plan and submitted another.
bg commented:
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reliapundit #7 January 19, 2012 at 6:41 pm
[And keep in mind about the Ryan budget, a lot of the people that are sort of running around and trying to stir up a little cock fight about what Newt Gingrich said, a year a go were saying that the Ryan plan was not their plan. That it was Paul Ryan’s plan, not their plan. … What people don’t endorse today, they’ll endorse tomorrow.
[..]
Indeed, before Ryan’s plan was the GOP budget, when it was his “Roadmap,” only 13 House Republicans signed on. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), House Majority Leader Cantor (R-VA) “and others [in the GOP caucus] are not showing much eagerness to take up the roadmap’s specifics,” the National Review reported in January. Cantor, “like the others, is not championing the roadmap as the House GOP budget strategy.” Of course, the roadmap became the basis of the GOP budget strategy. This morning, Cantor said in a radio interview that Gingrich’s criticism of the Ryan Plan is wrong and that he is guilty of “tremendous misspeak.” Potential presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty also “explicitly declined to support” Roadmap.”]
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T. Thompson commented:
Sorry folks, this X looks like one hard, bitter, and hate filled woman, remember there is 2 sides to every divorce-she looks and talks like a hate filled person-
Molon Labe commented:
#4
Nice post.
Rose commented:
There is an old old old joke, “what are ya gonna believe. Your eyes or what I tell ya.”
The punch line accompanies a cartoon of a man in his underwear standing beside the husband and wife’s bed, a blonde woman is in the bed, and a woman who is obviously the WIFE just walked in the door of the bedroom.
He wants his wife to believe that THAT VERY MOMENT is the first sight he EVER had of THAT WOMAN in his wife’s bed!!!
Some think the daughters know the truth. They prolly do. BUT daughters with a dad who has many affairs and wives have MIXED PRIORITIES.
Their mom was the FIRST TOSSED OUT for another woman – FOR #2 Marianne.
They have TWO vested interests in denouncing #2 Marianne – ONE) – OLD REVENGE for their own mamma – and TWO) – FREE AND UNFETTERED ACCESS to the White House – at CALISTA’s expense – another round of revenge served cold.
I know that doesn’t mean they ARE lying for the “dad’s sake” – OR FOR “HIS GRANDCHILDREN’S INHERITANCE’ SAKE!!!”
Rose commented:
#27 January 19, 2012 at 8:05 pm
T. Thompson
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But, ~IMAGINE HER SHOCK~ when she found out he was doing unto HER what SHE HELPED HIM DO UNTO OTHERS – before her! You know she never expected THAT! ~_~
dnb commented:
Really, are we supposed to believe his two daughters, like this would have been something to discuss in front of the children, when he had custody of them.
And weren’t his extra-marital discretions with his present wife previously discussed. To paraphrase, I believe he answered something like, “I was busy and stressed and flustered with the responsibilities of Speaker of the House” and so his mistress, a choir member of the Catholic church, in the interest of saving time and helping him relieve his stress, lifted her robe for quickie, before he went off to tell Bill Clinton what a miscreant he was.
And so, if he was having an affair because he was busy and stressed as speaker of the house, won’t he be busy and stressed as president? And if he busy and stressed with his wife and with the next mistress, how will he then have the time to handle the problems of the country?
Hypocrisy, I think thy name is Newt Gingrich. An what an exemplary Catholic his wife is, much in the model of the Kennedy men.
RKae commented:
My parents argued like Montagues and Capulets their whole marriage. Anything could get them going. “Who left the butter sitting out?” could explode into a two-hour door-slamming marathon of “What the hell do you know about anything?” As a kid I wondered, “How can they argue like that over the butter?” Only after I grew up did it occur to me “OH! They WEREN’T arguing about the butter! There was something darker they couldn’t bring themselves to speak.”
My mother was a shrew, so I always sided with dad. He was cool.
Nope. Turns out he was actually a nutcase, too. I just never noticed.
Yeah, I’d bet Newt’s a deviant. He’s arrogant and ugly enough to think that “one woman just ain’t enough” for all his awesome man-power. I’d also put my money on the notion that his kids are in the dark just like I was.
Shawn commented:
The left will stoop to no low to smear a person that won’t go their way. This hag needed her 15 min and abc gave her that. How much did they pay her?
Mac commented:
#29
Why should the first Mrs Gingrich get a free pass? Didn’t she teach Newt how to sneak around when he was in high school? He 16 she 26
Second Mrs Gingrich, had affair with married man, father of three children.
had affair with Newt , father of two children. She doesn’t believe in open marriage?
Rhinestone Suderman commented:
Newt is running for president—not minister of a church, or Custodian of Public Morals.
Don’t be distracted by non-issues.
(By the way—isn’t it interesting that this story comes out, just as Newt seems to be pulling ahed of Romney?)
JOE commented:
So the adulteress got cheated on,big shock.I could care less,try again sorry a$$ state run media.
Steve Cakouros commented:
The liberal media said nothing about Dr. Martin Luther King’s proclivity toward nymphomania. It will however dwell on the obvious fact that Newt has made a lot of mistakes.
How many times should he have to face questions about his deleterious behavior? Let’s get on with the matters at hand, the economy, jobs, homosexual ‘marriage” the war on terror, abortion on demand etc.
I must add this. Silence about Dr. King’s behavior reveals a bias.
bg commented:
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when did Newt lie??
and what did he lie about??
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