Golden Oldies: Newt and the “cancer bed divorce” myth

[AmericanFirst]

Well, with any luck this story won't prevent Newt from getting the nomination.

Yeah because we need some sense in the white house, unlike the nonsense in there now.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Well, with any luck this story won't prevent Newt from getting the nomination.

Yeah because we need some sense in the white house, unlike the nonsense in there now.

America will not elect a corrupt pasty faced fat toad president. We're not that insane yet.

 

[SFC Ollie]

Well, with any luck this story won't prevent Newt from getting the nomination.

Yeah because we need some sense in the white house, unlike the nonsense in there now.

America will not elect a corrupt pasty faced fat toad president. We're not that insane yet.

Could have fooled me, you elected Obama.

 

[Lakhota]

Newt Gingrich’s Second Wife Dishes Hard To Esquire: His Money Woes, His Philandering, His Meltdown

By Megan Carpentier

Before marrying Marianne, Gingrich presented his first wife, Jackie Battley, with the terms of their divorce as she lay in a hospital bed recovering from surgery for uterine cancer. Gingrich had pursued Marianne from nearly the moment they met at a January 1980 fundraiser:

She told him about the local economic decline, he said somebody needed to save the country. She said that he couldn’t do it alone, he asked about her plans for the future. Even then, he was making rash pronouncements that reasonable people made fun of, such as that he would be the next Republican Speaker of the House.

They kept the conversation going on the phone, often talking late into the night. Although he was still married to Jackie, Gingrich told Marianne they were in counseling and talking about divorce.​

Of course, they weren’t. In April 1980, only one day after Jackie’s surgery, Newt went to her room to present her with the terms of the divorce. That summer, he introduced Marianne to his parents, according to Esquire. By October, he was already refusing to pay alimony or child support. Marianne admits she knew little of that at first.

At first, she had no idea that the wife he was divorcing was actually his high school geometry teacher, or that he went to the hospital to present her with divorce terms while she was recovering from uterine cancer and then fought the case so hard, Jackie had to get a court order just to pay her utility bills. Gingrich told her the story a little at a time, trusting her with things that nobody else knew — to this day, for example, the official story is that he started dating Jackie when he was eighteen and she was twenty-five. But he was really just sixteen, she says.

More: Newt Gingrich’s Second Wife Dishes Hard To Esquire: His Money Woes, His Philandering, His Meltdown | TPMMuckraker

 

[SFC Ollie]

Newt Gingrich’s Second Wife Dishes Hard To Esquire: His Money Woes, His Philandering, His Meltdown

By Megan Carpentier

Before marrying Marianne, Gingrich presented his first wife, Jackie Battley, with the terms of their divorce as she lay in a hospital bed recovering from surgery for uterine cancer. Gingrich had pursued Marianne from nearly the moment they met at a January 1980 fundraiser:

She told him about the local economic decline, he said somebody needed to save the country. She said that he couldn’t do it alone, he asked about her plans for the future. Even then, he was making rash pronouncements that reasonable people made fun of, such as that he would be the next Republican Speaker of the House.

They kept the conversation going on the phone, often talking late into the night. Although he was still married to Jackie, Gingrich told Marianne they were in counseling and talking about divorce.​

Of course, they weren’t. In April 1980, only one day after Jackie’s surgery, Newt went to her room to present her with the terms of the divorce. That summer, he introduced Marianne to his parents, according to Esquire. By October, he was already refusing to pay alimony or child support. Marianne admits she knew little of that at first.

At first, she had no idea that the wife he was divorcing was actually his high school geometry teacher, or that he went to the hospital to present her with divorce terms while she was recovering from uterine cancer and then fought the case so hard, Jackie had to get a court order just to pay her utility bills. Gingrich told her the story a little at a time, trusting her with things that nobody else knew — to this day, for example, the official story is that he started dating Jackie when he was eighteen and she was twenty-five. But he was really just sixteen, she says.

More: Newt Gingrich’s Second Wife Dishes Hard To Esquire: His Money Woes, His Philandering, His Meltdown | TPMMuckraker

A whole thread debunking this BS and you still try to present it as fact?

 

[Lakhota]

That's because it is fact. Newt's daughter can't change that fact.

 

[Luissa]

Kind of like calling Clinton a racist or obama a Muslim or Kenyan?

I had a friend make the usual observation, via urban legend as to the infamous 'cancer bed divorce'. he said he read it at Salon.com....well, as usual the story its a bit more complicated and not quite as cut and dried as that pejorative blurb makes it sound.

Newt has political issues in several areas, and he will have to answer for them, but, their daughter doesn't seem to see this issue he way say Salon, abc cbs nbc cnn msnbc et al let on.

*shrugs* her account;

For years, I have thought about trying to correct the untrue accounts of this hospital visit. After all, I was at the hospital with them, and saw and heard what happened. But I have always hesitated, as it was a private family matter and my mother is a very private person. In addition, for the four people involved, it was one of a million interactions and was not considered a defining event by any of us.

My mother and I have both recently run into quite a few people who hold an inaccurate understanding of this hospital visit. Many think my mother is dead.

So, to correct the record, here is what happened: My mother, Jackie Battley Gingrich, is very much alive, and often spends time with my family. I am lucky to have such a “Miracle Mom,” as I titled her in a column this week.

As for my parents’ divorce, I can remember when they told me.

It was the spring of 1980.

I was 13 years old, and we were about to leave Fairfax, Va., and drive to Carrollton, Ga., for the summer. My parents told my sister and me that they were getting a divorce as our family of four sat around the kitchen table of our ranch home.

Soon afterward, my mom, sister and I got into our light-blue Chevrolet Impala and drove back to Carrollton.

Later that summer, Mom went to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta for surgery to remove a tumor. While she was there, Dad took my sister and me to see her.

It is this visit that has turned into the infamous hospital visit about which many untruths have been told. I won’t repeat them. You can look them up online if you are interested in untruths. But here’s what happened:

My mother and father were already in the process of getting a divorce, which she requested.

Dad took my sister and me to the hospital to see our mother.

She had undergone surgery the day before to remove a tumor.

The tumor was benign.

As with many divorces, it was hard and painful for all involved, but life continued.

Setting the Record Straight by Jackie Gingrich Cushman on Creators.com - A Syndicate Of Talent

hat tip Hot Air for the title

I had heard this account earlier in the week via Laura Ingraham. Thanks for posting it.

Thing is though? IF Newt gains strength in his vying for the Republican nomination, and succeeds? The Statist press, and many statists here on this board will try to dismiss it, and run with it none the less.

It's the liberal way!

 

[Katzndogz]

That's because it is fact. Newt's daughter can't change that fact.

That one made me laugh out loud.

How DARE she say something different that one of the libs favorite bedtime stories!

 

[SFC Ollie]

That's because it is fact. Newt's daughter can't change that fact.

You really have to be kidding me..... Read your sources.. Look at who you are depending on for truth. And then call his daughter a liar?

"according to Esquire." Esquire? Really? They know more than someone who was there?

Super fail.............

 

[Luissa]

That's because it is fact. Newt's daughter can't change that fact.

You really have to be kidding me..... Read your sources.. Look at who you are depending on for truth. And then call his daughter a liar?

"according to Esquire." Esquire? Really? They know more than someone who was there?

Super fail.............

Wasn't his second wife also there? He was cheating on his wife with her.
Really, it all doesn't matter. The only part I think that is messed up is him going after Clinton while cheating on his 2nd wife with a house of rep staffer.

 

[Lakhota]

In 1984, Battley told the Washington Post that the divorce was a "complete surprise" to her. According to Battley, in September 1980, Gingrich and their children visited her while she was in the hospital, recovering from surgery, and Gingrich wanted to discuss the terms of their divorce.[126]

Newt Gingrich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jackie Battley and Newt Gingrich Marriage Profile -- Marriage of Newt Gingrich and Jackie Battley

An Unabridged Guide to All of Newt Gingrich’s Wives | Blogs | Vanity Fair

 

[daveman]

That's because it is fact. Newt's daughter can't change that fact.

Yup. I called it.

 

[Luissa]

That's because it is fact. Newt's daughter can't change that fact.

Yup. I called it.

Sure ya did.

 

[daveman]

That's because it is fact. Newt's daughter can't change that fact.

Yup. I called it.

Sure ya did.

Yes, I did. Your problem is you've rejected reality in favor of leftist fantasy.

 

[SFC Ollie]

That's because it is fact. Newt's daughter can't change that fact.

Yup. I called it.

Sure ya did.

He did actually.

Anyway, there are stories on top of stories about Newt and his wives. And none of it means anything today. Why? Because people don't care. They don't care about Franks Whorehouse, they don't care about Clinton, they just don't care.....

 

[Charles_Main]

I find it funny anyone cares about Candidates Married Lives. Half the People in Public office out there have shame marriages that have been long over and are only Kept up for Political Expedience anyways.

Newt and His Wife had probably been Divorced in Practice for Years for all we know.

Kinda like Anyone with a Brain knows Bill and Hillary are only a couple because of Power, Status, and Appearances.

 

[Luissa]

Yup. I called it.

Sure ya did.

Yes, I did. Your problem is you've rejected reality in favor of leftist fantasy.

If you think I care who a politician is screwing, you live in fantasy world.

 

[daveman]

Sure ya did.

Yes, I did. Your problem is you've rejected reality in favor of leftist fantasy.

If you think I care who a politician is screwing, you live in fantasy world.

You're here in this thread criticizing those who mock leftists who believe the leftist fantasy.

 

[Lakhota]

The truth about Newt Gingrich’s first divorce

By Cynthia Tucker

I’ve known Newt Gingrich for a long time. I remember when he was first elected to Congress from Georgia, and I remember his swift rise as a pugilistic, bombastic back-bencher. He can be fun in conversation if you enjoy intellectual combat, and I do. He can also be pompous, self-serving, overweening and hypocritical. He uses words as weapons, with little regard for whether what he says is actually true. If he has a moral core, it’s hard to pinpoint.

I have known the Newtster long enough that I remember his very unpleasant divorce from his first wife, Jackie. That’s bound to come up since he’s now holding the anti-Romney chair in the parlor game that passes for a GOP presidential primary. And, over the years, he’s done a reasonably good job of playing defense on that subject, persuading many journalists that their initial reports of that divorce were wrong.

No, Jackie Battley Gingrich was not on her deathbed. Those who said so were wrong since she’s still alive.

Last year, one of his daughters, Jackie Gingrich Cushman, wrote a revisionist history of the infamous hospital visit, in which she even claimed that it was her mother, Jackie, who wanted to end the marriage. Perhaps that’s true. I don’t know since I was not there.

But I do know the younger Jackie’s version of events is quite different from what her mother, Jackie Battley Gingrich, told The Washington Post in 1985. Newt’s first wife told Lois Romano:

“He can say we had been talking about it (a divorce) for ten years, but the truth is that it came as a complete surprise. He’s a great wordsmith. . .He walked out in the spring of 1980 and I returned to Georgia. By September, I went into the hospital for my third surgery. The two girls came to see me, and said Daddy is downstairs and could he come up? When he got there, he wanted to discuss the terms of the divorce while I was recovering from surgery.”​

Why bring that up when there is so much other Gingrich baggage to discuss? I just wanted to set the record straight since that was a crucial piece of my early understanding of the Newster.

The truth about Newt Gingrich’s first divorce

Sooo, now we know the truth - directly from the mouth of Newt's first wife, Jackie Battley.

How are you righties going to spin this...?

 

[AmericanFirst]

That's because it is fact. Newt's daughter can't change that fact.

You really have to be kidding me..... Read your sources.. Look at who you are depending on for truth. And then call his daughter a liar?

"according to Esquire." Esquire? Really? They know more than someone who was there?

Super fail.............

The truth has always failed Laliesalot.