NYT and others reporting this morning that Newt is calling for his own superPAC to correct the inaccuracies in its (his) Mitticide movie "King of Bain" or pull it.
“I’m calling on them to either edit out every single mistake or to pull the entire film,” Mr. Gingrich said at the opening of a campaign office in Orlando during a swing through the critical primary state of Florida. “They cannot run the film if it has errors in it.”
As you, I and Mr. Squeaker know, "they" can indeed run the film if it has errors in it. They can run "Citizen Kane" and claim it was based on a future vision of Romney's career (just as Romney's superPAC could run "The Man Who Loved Women" with the same claim). Such is political life in a post-Citizens United world.
Newt's sanctimonious demands that the film be altered or removed from circulation are, in the recent parlance, "pious baloney." The PAC is run by his former communications director who knows, if anyone would, what Professor Gingrich wants the world to hear about his rival.
His call for clarification is little more than the old B-movie promotion gag of having a phony nurse in the theaters to assure that viewers can withstand the shock of seeing the film.
I think I hear William Castle applauding from beyond the grave.