Gingrich Says No Way to MSNBC's Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann

If he ever runs for president, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) has certain things he’d never do. He says the main one is he’d never participate in certain media-sponsored debates, particularly an NBC debate if moderated by MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann or Chris Matthews. Gingrich made the comments on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” program this morning.

“There’s no possibility that I would ever go to a debate and have Olbermann or Chris Matthews asking questions.  I watched the debate a couple of years ago and it was an embarrassment because they were so relentlessly hostile and they were so left-wing that every question they asked of the Republicans was designed to embarrass and divide the Republicans. 

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