Levin says that the ethics complaints filed against Newt in the late 90s were filed by a real pinko, hard left nut-job named David Bonior, and he did it because the Democrats were trying to get Newt removed from office because he had removed the Democrats from power. Levin added that Newt paid the $300k fine, not because he was guilty of anything, but because he was advised to pay it because he was going broke, and rightly so.

But this is the line of attack Christie (and Romney) has chosen against Newt, and The Great One is having none of it:

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  • Maxsteele

    It is amazing how much I think like Levin. He is the great one and I say this with all humility but when I heard Christy all I heard was cronyism and could not have put it any better then Levin did. I guess us old jews have to stick together. Hahaha, Krispy..lol.

    • http://twitter.com/doorsxp Doors Xp

      I have to laugh every time Mark calls him Chris “Krispy Kreme” Christie.

      Hahahahahahahaha! Hilarious.

      • Anonymous

        It makes me hungry…I wonder if it makes Christie hungry?

        • PFFV

          Is Christie ever not hungry? Just my thought after reading your post…lol!

    • Anonymous

      You are great in your own right. Great minds think alike. :)

  • Anonymous

    Christie is a fat RINO bastard and the base has had enough of him and his chins.

    • PFFV

      I’m sure the chins continue all the way down to his toes too… :-D

      • Anonymous

        He’s got more Chins than a Chinese phone book

  • Anonymous

    “Leading spokes big mouth.”

    Sheer poetry!

  • http://twitter.com/edenjac edenjac

    Bravo Levin! Now it makes more sense to me that Todd Palin endorsement, they went thru the same with the ethics charges and were going to go broke also if they kept fighting it. They can do this to anybody they want to target.

    • Anonymous

      It does sound just like a Palin prequel, doesn’t it?

  • PFFV

    The Newt haters are squirming with venom ready to spew. The establishment is pissed because they aren’t getting their way, much like snott-nosed little brats that don’t get what they want. Levin rules! Christie needs to shut up and eat another case of glazed donuts.

    • Anonymous

      They’re confounded that America doesn’t drink Mitten’s bath water or dry hump his leg like they do. How dare us for not loving the mannequin!

  • Anonymous

    This campaign is turning into a most beneficial campaign for conservatives, the lines of demarcation are being drawn with such distinction thanks to Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, and this site for making it all available to those who want to know who is on the right and those on the other side.

    • Anonymous

      I sure do agree with that! It’s the perfect opportunity to get the records set straight, and Levin and Limbaugh are such well informed masters to help us to understand the ‘behind the scenes’ machinations that went on. Let the opposition drop their bombs.

    • Anonymous

      I think you’re right. It looks like this site is the main place I’ll be spending my online politics watching time this year.

  • Anonymous

    Levin has been pretty consistent about Big Boy’s political leanings.

  • Anonymous

    The more he opens his mouth (Christy) the more I DO NOT like him. I have to ask myself “why does this guy find it necessary to go out and be so active for Romney?” I am not seeing other politicians being so vocal. He is trying HARD to rise himself in the establishment ranks … they must have told him he wouldn’t get anywhere unless he became their puppet.

    • Anonymous

      Has it ever closed for anything?

    • Maxsteele

      The other day Christy said he would accept running with Romney as his VP running mate. Guess that answers it all right there.

    • Anonymous

      This attack dog is drooling for a VP invite from Mittens…

    • Anonymous

      They probably just waived a donut in front of his face. :)

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gibby-Small/100000610500567 Gibby Small

      Here are a few of the RNC players carrying the water of the establishment.

      Gov. Chris Christie R-NJ
      Gov. Bob McDonnell R-Va my Governor… total RINO! Waiting for Romney to tap him for VP. Asked the VA house and senate to NOT lift the uranium mining band until next year. Republicans FINALLY have control over the house and an even split in the senate with the Lt Gov to break the tie and he wants to wait until next year. Another politician more concerned with politics. Also doesn’t care that most of the Republican candidates didn’t make the ballot in Virginia. He had already chosen his candidate and didn’t care the citizens of Virginia won’t have the same choices as most of the other states. They could have fixed this when they opened the session. VA Senate majority leader-R had no interest in it either.
      Gov. Nikki Haley R-SC
      John Bolton -shockingly, I had no idea he was a RINO!
      Christine O’Donnell R The RNC basically turned their backs on this TEA Party backed woman and now she is out there doing their will.
      Sen. John McCain R-AZ
      Gov. Mike Huckabee R

      I’m sure there are more.

      The lesson is, if you are a CONSERVATIVE, NEVER DONATE TO THE RNC! Donate directly to the candidate. You know where your money is going when you do.

    • Anonymous

      My guess is that he finds it necessary to go out and be so active for Romney because he thinks Romney will pick him as his VP if he wins the candidacy. Christie said he wouldn’t run for president but he never said he wouldn’t accept a VP offer.

  • Anonymous

    Mark, thanks for saying this. Wish you would of added that this is what they did to Governor Palin also on ethic complaints.

  • Anonymous

    Look at all the ethics complaints filed against Palin that were proven to all be FALSE!

  • Anonymous

    This REALLY explains Coulter’s support for Mittens. She has been having a continual love affair for Christie. She wants him to see her in favor!

    • Anonymous

      She see’s herself as a scantily clad slave, lovingly dropping donuts into his waiting mouth…

      • Anonymous

        Ew! Don’t go visual lol

      • Garym

        Kind of like a blond Princess Leia and Jabba the Hut.

        • Anonymous

          Okay, you literally made laugh out loud on that. Brilliant! :)

  • Anonymous

    Thank you, Mark Levin…I remember this leftwing David Boni…character….nasty bit of goods, he was….or is.
    Something comes to my mind that the fine had to do with an advance on a book and the Hillary did the same thing and it was overlooked….I could be wrong in my memory.

    • Anonymous

      anne: Newt began teaching the “American Civilization” college course before he became Speaker and the IRS found that – contrary to the Democrat-Benoir ethics hit job – the course (and by extension, Newt) had not violated tax law by filing as a tax-exempt organization. Ultimately, it took a three-year investigation by the IRS to finally vindicate and clear Gingrich’s name. Of course, the media decided to bury THAT part of the story in hopes that the original charges stuck. And it worked – Christie and Romney’s other shill, John Sununu are still parroting this phony story almost 15 years after the fact. Gingrich eventually paid the $300,000 fine for making some inconsistent statements to the IRS but more importantly, to get this Democrat-instigated smear job off his head, yet he still paid a heavy price when fellow GOP threw him under the bus, causing him to eventually lose his leadership position. And as you can see, the RINOs haven’t changed at all.

      • Anonymous

        PUCH, thanks for bringing us up to speed on the hatchet job by bonior on Newt. Something like 75 ethics violations file by bonior…..none true. what a jerk! He should have been the one to ultimately pay the $300,000 for Newt since the allegations were proven false.

      • shawn S

        Well the damage had already been done

        CNN did have this report in 1999 when the IRS’s decision came. Gingrich was cleared It was all a poltical attack by the Democrats.

  • ApplePie101

    Ann Coulter’s credibility sinks like a stone.

    • Anonymous

      She’s stoned? Wha? ;)

      • Anonymous

        Ann Coulter is really a man dressed in drag think about it. The Adam’s Apple and the balls to say Romney is a conservative who can beat Obama. She’s also a flop flipper.

        • Anonymous

          I thought Coulter was a woman dressed as a man dressed as a woman.

        • Anonymous

          Very funny comment!

          I still like Ann… but I’m confounded by her hot-n-heavy support of one of the worst candidates in this race. Maybe Christie is somehow blackmailing her? Maybe he knows where the donuts are buried? Maybe Christie is witholding “favors” unless she pretends righteous indignation over the outcome of the S.C. voting?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Florey/100002838321254 Mike Florey

    Well, cream rises to the top. Unfortunately in Christie’s case, so does scum.

    • Anonymous

      Krispy Kreme rises to the top. The king of donuts!!! Accept no substitute!

  • cabensg

    So Levin has put aside his prejudice in favor of truth. Good. Glad to see his dislike for Gingrich didn’t get in the way of his ethics. I wonder if he or Rush either one have even bothered to read Newt’s 21st Century Contract with America?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Valdez/1806887704 Steven Valdez

    ouch, thank you Levin! and maybe i should say thank you Christie, you’re attacks using left wing ethics propaganda is only going to help Newt… Push us, and we’ll push right back harder!!

    • Anonymous

      But more of us need to push in Christie’s case… I’m just sayin…

  • StNikao

    Here’s a Drudge headline on Christie:

    “Chris Christie Picks Gay Black Man, Korean To Diversify All-White State Supreme Court…”

  • Anonymous

    Lol… “And what were you doing back then Krispy?” OMG, that was funny!

    Thank you Mark for slamming this fool. I am so happy that no one is standing for this slop. And for Krispy to go on THAT station and stoke the rhetoric that the GOP is fractured and unelectable… is sickening. Anything to get his wide-screen face on T.V.

    Great post Scoop!

  • Anonymous

    Dirty, desperate RINOs.

  • Anonymous

    Christie- Promised so much, Disappointed so greatly.

    What a shame. Levin is on point as usual.

    • Anonymous

      One of the first things he said when he got elected was that his election was not a referendum on Obama.

      Um, yes it was.

  • Anonymous

    Recall that Christie is Romney’s hand-picked attack dog. These types of subversive, libelous tactics are exposing Romney as a coward similar to Obama, where both send out their underlings to do their dirty work as they “rise” above the fray to appear uninvolved. This crap is going to backfire big-time for Romney – it already has in SC. But instead of backing off the slander and lies, tone-deaf Romney is doubling down. Keep it up, Mittens…your colossal loss as the “inevitable” nominee can’t come soon enough.

  • Anonymous

    This why I love Levin!

  • Anonymous

    Sarah Palin’s smack-down made my day, I just know later in the future when I am having a rough day, all I have to do is play the youtube clip and things will turn around. I loves me some Sarah.

  • Anonymous

    When is everyone going to wake up? Newt cannot be trusted. He is playing the role of the aggressor knowing that we conservatives are hungry for a fighter. It is a ploy. It is disingenuous. Just pull up nearly any video clip of his past. He has been just as-if not more of a flip flop on the issues as Romney.
    Here is my fear: he plays this role, somehow wins, and we all live to regret it when the mask comes off. Then we all look back and say “how could we not see this coming given all the evidence in his history??”
    We ignore the true conservative because he lacks the showmanship…because, of course, the masses must be entertained.
    While I will confess that Gingrich is better than Obama, I would pick him 3rd out of the 4 right now-just ahead of RP. I await the hateful replies, but the facts speak for themselves–and you can spit three feet and hit an uncomfortable fact about Newt.

    • Anonymous

      When are you going to wake up?? Romney CANNOT DEFEAT OBAMA in the general because he is a liberal RINO Republican #1 and #2 Because of this he will not rally the base.

      Newt may not be as Conservative as I would like but between him and Romney he looks like George Washington.

      If you think after this primary process Tea Party people would come out for a Romney instead of Newt, you’re out of your mind. No base = NO WIN.

      I vote for Newt and no one else. If the nominee is Romney I stay home.

      • Anonymous

        I’m for Santorum buddy, not Romney….that being said, I would vote for him over Newt on character alone.

    • Anonymous

      Ever wonder how it is that a person gets called an ‘SOB’ in the morning and later called ‘a really good guy’, BUT forever after he is known as “That SOB”?

      Newt got “asked to leave the House” by angry Democrats who were mad because Newt beat them up so badly with the gains he squeezed out of the House, and through the Senate…to say nothing about through the White House, too. Also, the old timers hadn’t forgotten how Speaker Jim Wright got ‘caught’ and resigned before they had a chance to give him the heave ho. (Newt’s work). How do you suppose so much got done in the Clinton Administration with Newt at the helm of the House ? It sure wasn’t by being a ‘stiff-necked Conservative’, like many people think you should behave today.

      Compromise isn’t necessarily a ‘flip-flop’, unless you’re just looking for a particularly ‘meaningful’ term. Whatever you choose to call it, Newt managed to wrangle that herd of mavericks into producing some really memorable accomplishments.

  • Anonymous

    If you like Newt, here’s an interesting post by Tony Lee from Daily Events:

    With that said, here are five things to look for going into Florida:

    1) In 2008, Mitt Romney narrowly won the white vote (read: he ran to the right of McCain), but McCain won the Hispanic vote and ended up winning Florida. Somehow, Gingrich could actually be positioned to win the more conservative white vote and the Hispanic vote. Should he do this, it gives Gingrich a powerful message that he could also be a better candidate than Romney in the general election in retaining the conservative vote while competing in minority communities.

    2) Florida is a closed primary. I wish all primaries would be closed, but Florida is the first one that actually is. No independents, or, inexplicably, Democrats can vote in the primary. Since only Republicans are allowed to vote, this should favor the candidate who is perceived as being more conservative, who is Gingrich.

    3) Absentee and early voting. Keep in mind that nearly 200,000 people still have their absentee ballots and have not mailed them in. In addition, early voting has started in Florida, so people can vote throughout the week. This means that every day is a mini primary and events such as debates can make a difference in impacting turnout.

    4) Florida is won on television. How much free media Gingrich gets this week versus how much paid media Romney puts up will be worth monitoring.

    5) Endorsements. Will Sarah Palin, whose South Carolina endorsement of Gingrich was instrumental in allowing Gingrich to accelerate past Romney, also endorse him in Florida to bring the hammer down on Romney’s candidacy?

    • Anonymous

      It will help if Santorum throws in the towel. We need Romney defeated.

      • Anonymous

        I’m inclined to agree with you, MJS.

      • Anonymous

        It would help at this point to have any of them throw in the towel… it would help those who are left. You obviously see Rick as the weakest candidate, that’s cool. I still support him and he’s my number 1. But he is likely the most vulnerable candidate at this point, due to a lack of $$$.

        Santorum isn’t taking votes away from anyone really… Ron Paul has his niche and Mittens and Newt keep swapping the voters that they have between themselves. If either of them is unable to lock down the race with Santorum in there, then they shouldn’t be running. Having four in this race now helps to vet them all more thoroughly.

        I’m all for uniting behind one person… but there’s a long way to go before our GOP nominee is selected. I agree though, our nominee cannot be Mittens.

  • http://twitter.com/Seanmj63376 Sean Johnson

    Coulter was on O’Really tonight and was alowed to blast away at Newt for an entire segment. Her shilling for Mittens got so bad the she even pissed off O’Really. She called him Jesse Jaskson of all people. The go along to get alongs will stop at nothing to push Mittens on the public. If he does get the nomination and lose, they will scury away and prettend they never pushed him.

    • Anonymous

      Dude, she was so F*&^ing annoying. blah, blah, blah, blah, nag, nag, nag!

      I wish Bill would have Ike Turner slapped her off the chair.

      NO ONE believes she is a Conservative.

      • http://twitter.com/Seanmj63376 Sean Johnson

        Her and Beck need to STFU until after the election. They both havve been disgraceful.

    • Anonymous

      Coulter has definitely taken a turn in an unfortunate direction. I always had trouble listening to her even when I found her entertaining. Her voice is shrill and she often seems on the verge of flying completely out of control. On this Romney thing, and Christy before him, she seems desperate which makes her even more annoying.

    • Anonymous

      I saw the interview with Bill and what little respect I had left for her is now gone completely.

      • Anonymous

        I don’t watch O’really anymore but it sounds like you are in the same place as I am. Before Ann started supporting the “establishment” politicians I had great regard for her and her sharp wit even though she was sometimes too acerbic.

        I guess this election cycle will show us who the poseurs are …

  • Anonymous

    Romney refuses to call Obama a “socialist”, and still campaigns vouching for Obama’s character by stating “he’s a nice guy, he’s just over his head” – but has no problem unleashing vicious smears against a fellow Republican by deploying RINO sidekicks and flooding airwaves 24/7 with multi-million dollar attack ads. This is like 2008 except Romney is McCain on steroids.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4UX5IMCQLMMNCCKQUWML6KN6NA Mark

    Sarah Palin had close to a hundred ethics complaints filed against her in Alaska.

    The “ethics complaints” are just a load of left-wing crap.

    Go Newt 2012!

  • Anonymous

    Glad to hear this good news about these false and misleading accusations about Newt because earlier today I heard that Romney was going after Newt on exactly the same accusations to dis his character,LOL! Well the jokes on him,it will be interesting to see if dares try and pull this rabbit out of his hat tonight!

    • Anonymous

      On Newt’s way out of the Washington, (yes, this must be how they used to run people they don’t like out of a job.) he got a conference call, which was transcribed by ABC and released in the New York times.
      http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/08/us/the-speaker-steps-down-excerpts-from-phone-call-about-gingrich-s-future.html

      Truth really is stranger than the fiction that is sometimes passed off as truth.

      • Anonymous

        And he was cleared of that last charge by the IRS.

      • Anonymous

        I knew the IRS cleared him of any wrongdoing, but I thought one ethics charge had to stay, and that was the one of bringing discredit to the House (or Congress), as a result of all the hassle stirred up.

        What I thought was really unfair was having to give back, or refuse to accept, 4.5 million dollars in advances for a book deal, from a publisher.

  • Anonymous

    Mark is right about Bonior; I remember him. I also remember 2008 and what Huckabee had to say about Romney. Between Christie backing Romney, his attacks on Newt and appointing a gay judge to the Supreme Court I am becoming disgusted with my governor. I voted for him once but he better get his act together or I may not again.

  • Hope Change

    IT WASN’T A FINE.
    IT WASN’T A FINE.
    IT WASN’T A FINE.

    Hello. (calmer now.) It wasn’t a fine.

    It was payment for the cost of the investigation. He agreed to do this so they could get on with the Contract agenda.

    Newt was cleared. Here are some links:
    NEWT WAS CLEARED
    http://rogersdaughter.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/newt-was-cleared-2/#comment-76

  • Anonymous

    I think we should all work to end Mr. Christie’s political career.

  • http://twitter.com/PoeAllen Allen Poe

    Mark, I am so glad you are here. I, personally do not like Christie, never have. There is just something wrong there. I just wanted to address you, and ask if you have seen the trend. The USA government, appointed by Obama, is now quietly refuting all the GOP claims, with rediculous reports, and wrong conclusions. One is the economy, the released report, saying the economy is improving, and employment down, is as skewed a survey, as i have ever seen. Please investigate. Because who is the independent going to believe, a candidate, or a government agency?

  • Mike Lee

    Oh, I remember that pr*ck Bonior very well.
    Didn’t he also go to Iraq to give comfort to the enemy? Managed John Edwards’ campaign as well. A real beauty of a human being.

  • Anonymous

    As always…Levin calling em out. Christy is falling for the Coulter worship at his own risk. The pair of them are beginning to look more like the stealth progressives Beck warns about.

    I’m half way through “Ameritopia” a must read.

  • http://twitter.com/nickmarschel straw man

    This is the exact same thing they did to Sarah Palin. If you read Saul Alinksky’s Rules for Radicals, you would recognize this as one of his tactics for attacking your political enemies. If you make enough false complaints against them, you can create a narrative and claim a pattern exists. Of course this is made much easier when you have a compliant media that will repeat that narrative for you and report it as though it were factual news. It also doesn’t hurt when you can get dupes like Chris Christie to parrot that narrative. Nice job, governor!

  • Anonymous

    Keep calling Christie the RINO out…He’s an Islamist to boot…

  • Anonymous

    Ya know? When “Krispy” kame on the scene, I thought I would like him.

    Now? Notsomuch.

    There is an extremely interesting parallel between Mr. Gingrich being driven out by frivolous “ethics” claims and people of the same ilk repeating their tactics with Mrs. Palin in Alaska.

    What other than a “loser pays” system is there to prevent or contain this kind of frivolity in the future?

    GB

  • Anonymous

    It would be Great if Levin could get some of these shills on his show and enlighten them by force feeding them some truth about their shill remarks.

  • Anonymous

    And I wonder how much Ann Coulter is being paid by Romney to slam Newt

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Randall-Hayden/100000357921727 Randall Hayden

    That $300,000 was not a fine, but covered legal expenses.
    Newt was also not convicted of any violations, neither ethical nor otherwise.

  • Anonymous

    Bravo!! About time to call the Gov of New Jersey what a “big mouth” he is!!

  • Anonymous

    Newt got the previous Democrat speaker on ethic violations so the Democrats motive to bring up false ethic violation charges on him which the FBI later dismissed is clear!
    The real question is:

    Why did fellow Republicans backstab on him?

    Well ,he balanced the budget 4 times in a row,made some serious housecleaning in Washington happen…
    Apparently some Repubs were unhappy about his extreme fiscal discipline!
    And when they mugged him out the big spending spree began until today…
    Typical inside the beltway reasonong:he is not giving me the pork barrel spending,so lets get rid of this guy…

    I wanna puke…

  • bobemakk

    Christie is surprising. He is a feisty man just like Newt Gingrich and he supports the RINO Romney. Let’s get this message out to everyone and let the public know the truth from Mark Levin. AND make sure you read his book Liberty and Tyranny, it is one of the best books I’ve ever read. I am looking foward to reading his new book as well.

    Gingrich is the man for the presidency. The lamestream media is trashing Newt for “historical” baggage. All politicians have baggage if we dig deep enough, but the lamestream/left socialists won’t expose democrats, they love the big zero/Obama. Newt has made his mark with his “Contract with America,” a contract he fulfilled that no other politician can match. He is a true conservative, and gaining in the polls. He also now has the support of the Palin family and Rick Perry and now Chuck Norris. Newts daughters also wrote to ABC about the Brian Ross interview with their mother and said it was a mean and nasty move right before a primary, which Gingrich won anyway. We need this man to bring back our country into prosperity. Look at Iraq when the troops were brought home, the Iranians will take over and the violence has started again and is worsening. We can all blame Obama for that and all the soldiers lost or maimed was all in vain.

    However, I will vote for anyone who runs against the Obama regime.
    I just wish that the candidates would stop slamming each other and focus on the multitude of failures by Obama, he has ruined US and we are on the brink of bankruptcy.

  • Anonymous

    And this is Ann Coulter’s fav guy. Did you hear her go off on O’Reilly last night? I thought she was gonna’ break a blood vessel. She’s got a real case of the a** against ol’ Newt.

  • http://twitter.com/conservagirl Susan

    Bonior was a creep, but so was Newt. Better off without both of them. And Barack Obama could have balanced the budget during the dot.com boom. Clinton also benefited from that. Rick Santorum wrote the welfare reform legislation.
    But that was ancient history. Today Newt is still a creep and not worthy of representing ME as a true conservative, one who believes that integrity is necessary to keep freedom from being sabotaged. I start with the man (or woman) and go from there. Newt doesn’t pass muster. Can’t even imagine having plastic Barbie adulteress for 1st lady either – what a great role model for young women. #NewtFail

  • Anonymous

    I WILL VOTE FOR NEWT JUST BECAUSE HE WILL TAKE ON THE
    “LAME STREAM MEDIA”!