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...complained just before the war began that President Bush had "failed so miserably at diplomacy," has seen his national poll numbers drop. His unfavorable ratings have reached the high 30s in some polls--"Newt territory," in the words of a Republican strategist, a reference to fiery former House Speaker Gingrich...
...Gingrich resigned as House Speaker after his party fared poorly in the 1998 elections. Now some Republicans, smelling blood, are urging former Representative John Thune--who barely lost a 2000 race against South Dakota's other Senator, Tim Johnson--to take on Daschle...
...gained 270,000 more listeners since then. Its two big news shows--Morning Edition and All Things Considered--have a combined weekly listenership of 15.7 million, making them the U.S.'s No. 2 and No. 3 programs, after conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh's show. Even Newt Gingrich, who wanted to dismantle NPR when he was a conservative leader in Congress, today says he's a fan and contributor. "Either it is a lot less on the left, or I have mellowed," he said in a recent speech...
During the early years of his HBO program, moreover, Miller often saved his most acerbic barbs for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, sarcastically comparing him to Hitler and claiming he was “further to the right than the part in Sam Donaldson’s hair.” Later, in May 1998, he characterized Gingrich’s ’94 Republican class as a “band of fascist elves...
Well, without sounding too trite, Sept. 11 happened. The cynical, derisive attitude that Miller had cultivated on his show seemed to have a place during the Clinton-Gingrich years. But after 3,000 people were slaughtered on American soil by genocidal terrorists, skepticism for the sake of skepticism was no longer chic. Indeed, it seemed drastically inappropriate...