ABC to air unflattering talk with Gingrich's ex

NEW YORK - ABC News plans to air an interview with the second wife of Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich on "Nightline" just two days before the GOP's South Carolina primary.

Excerpts from the interview with Marianne Gingrich will be released during the day Thursday, ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider said, ahead of both a Republican candidate debate Thursday evening in Charleston, S.C., and ABC's late-night news program.

ABC News has not indicated what Marianne Gingrich said in the interview. Her ex-husband has said that they don't have a relationship.

The interview comes as Gingrich, the former House speaker, is trying to topple GOP front-runner Mitt Romney by casting himself as the more conservative option in the GOP presidential race. It would shine a spotlight on a part of Gingrich's past that could turn off Republican voters in a state filled with religious and cultural conservatives who may cringe at Gingrich's two divorces and acknowledged infidelities.

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Gingrich campaign reacts to ex-wife's TV interview

Marianne Gingrich has said Gingrich proposed to her before the divorce from his first wife was final in 1981; they were married six months later. Her marriage to Gingrich ended in divorce in 2000, and Gingrich has admitted he'd already taken up with Callista Bisek, a former congressional aide who would become his third wife. The speaker who pilloried President Bill Clinton for his affair with Monica Lewinsky was himself having an affair at the time.

As plans to air the interview were disclosed, Gingrich's campaign released a statement from his two daughters from his first marriage — Kathy Lubbers and Jackie Cushman — suggesting that Marianne Gingrich's comments may be suspect given emotional toll divorce takes on everyone involved.

"Anyone who has had that experience understands it is a personal tragedy filled with regrets, and sometimes differing memories of events. We will not say anything negative about our father's ex-wife," they said. "He has said before, privately and publicly, that he regrets any pain he may have caused in the past to people he loves."

A message seeking comment from Marianne Gingrich was not immediately returned.

[LarryParadise]

Newt is a low class CREEP ...

Can you imagine someone actually casting a vote for this pig, for ANY political position ... I can't ... they'd have to be just as sick as he is to do so

[mb99]

"He has said before, privately and publicly, that he regrets any pain he may have caused in the past to people he loves."
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Such hollow words... yep, he regretted the pain he caused so much that he turned around and did the same thing to his second wife... I think it's pretty obvious, Newt is in love with himself and has no loyalty to anyone but himself.

[Lindag10]

So he's paid his daughters to try to make his bad behavior look better in the eyes of the evangelicals. I well remember his "outrage" at Clinton's actions while he was doing the same thing. Too funny.

[chevyhotrod]

So you have proof that he has paid his daughter?

Until then, just more lies and propaganda from Lindag10.

[omnibus66]

"he regrets any pain he may have caused in the past to people he loves."

Therefore if he doesn't love you (poor people, the middle class, blacks, muslims, Democrats, the media), he won't regret the pain he causes you. Actually, I think that he really only loves one person (it's not a corporation), and everything he does is to prevent any sort of pain to that one person

[saturn05]

Newt lacks a moral compass and he wants to run our country. Forget him!

[baileyccc]

If Newt makes decisions like he picks the women in his life, then Sarah Palin will be Vice President and the Ann Coulter skank will be Secretary of State.

[Catch22ofNJ]

Newt certainly does value the family. After all, he's collected 3 of them.

[pr_boxer]

per1sh1 is a dip$hit!

[iamproteus]

So what's new?

[pr_boxer]

Any woman dumb enough to take up with that scum, deserves what she gets.

[sweetcakesmaria]

The beans are about to be spilled!