Now Gingrich Says He Didn’t Say What He Said

Posted by | May 19, 2011 19:25 | Filed under: Top Stories


Newt Gingrich told Rush Limbaugh he wasn’t talking about Paul Ryan when he said “right-wing social engineering”

Then why did he apologize to Ryan?

“It was interpreted in a way which was causing trouble which he doesn’t need or deserve,” Gingrich said. “My answer wasn’t about the budget, and I promptly went back to say publicly that I would have voted for the Ryan budget.”

But it’s obvious Ryan was being discussed:

GREGORY: Do you think that Republicans ought to buck the public opposition and really move forward to completely change Medicare, turn it into a voucher program where you give seniors…

REP. GINGRICH: Right.

MR. GREGORY: …some premium support and–so that they can go out and buy private insurance?

REP. GINGRICH: I don’t think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering…

MR. GREGORY: …what Paul Ryan is suggesting..is completely changing Medicare.

REP. GINGRICH: I, I think that, I think, I think that that is too big a jump. I think what you want to have is a system where people voluntarily migrate to better outcomes, better solutions, better options, not one where you suddenly impose upon the–I don’t want to–I’m against Obamacare, which is imposing radical change, and I would be against a conservative imposing radical change.

It must be obvious that Gingrich didn’t say what he said.

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