We’ve seen Newt Gingrich emerge as a Trump VP frontrunner, we’ve heard rumors he may reject such a position, which is saying something for a guy as morally profligate as Newt Gingrich.
Now, due to “intense media speculation,†Fox News and Newt Gingrich have announced a mutual parting of ways while Trump decides who he wants to lose the election with. Oliver Darcy of Business Insider announced it via Twitter Tuesday:
STATEMENT: “FOX News Channel has mutually agreed to suspend†relationship with Newt “effective immediately†pic.twitter.com/NNMZlwuuxv
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 12, 2016
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As Media Matters’ Eric Hananoki points out, however,
The timing of the announcement makes little sense — Gingrich has repeatedly been mentioned on Fox News and elsewhere as a potential Trump running mate for months. If the network truly hoped to avoid “conflicts of interest,†it should have suspended Gingrich long ago, not mere days before Trump is reportedly set to announce his running mate.
Let’s face it, if actual propriety has so little standing at Fox News, how much less does the appearance of propriety matter? If propriety entered into the picture, they would not have hired the ethically-challenged serial adulterer to moralize in the first place.
But hey, what better bona fides for Trump’s VP pick, eh? If Gingrich doesn’t exactly walk the walk, he does love America so much he can’t keep his pants up.
All that’s left is to sit back and munch popcorn as we wait, for the next tweet is now in Donald Trump’s very small hands.
Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.
