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Watch: Glenn Beck Grills Newt Gingrich About Health Care, Government Spending [Video]

Posted: December 6, 2011

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Glenn Beck had a special guest on his radio show this morning. Newt Gingrich called into the show and the two had a pointed conversation over the GOP candidate’s stance on health care.

With Gingrich building steam toward the GOP ticket Beck found it necessary to voice his concerns about Newt running for president. Before the interview, Beck said:

“I have serious concerns with Newt Gingrich… I truly, deeply care about the country just as much as Newt Gingrich does but we differ on the answers, I believe. I’d like to have him convince me that I’m wrong. I would love to have him convince me that I’m wrong.”

Beck grilled Gingrich about his support for an individual mandate to buy health insurance, for his ideas on climate change, and for his stance on the expansion of Medicare.

Here’s the first part of Glenn Beck’s interview with Newt Gingrich.

Gingrich maintained throughout the interview that his views were consistent. When pressed about his support of expanding Medicare in 2003, Gingrich said:

“My position is very straightforward. If you’re going to have Medicare, which was created in 1965 and it was created at a time when drugs didn’t matter, there weren’t many breakthroughs at that point. But to take a position that ‘We won’t help you with insulin but we’ll pay for your kidney dialysis’ is both bad at a human level and bad at a financial level.”

Beck also asked Gingrich if he believed in ‘The Inconvenient Truth?’

Gingrich said:

“Well, I never believed in Al Gore’s fantasies.”

Gingrich then talked about how he voted against the cap and trade bill and explained how the left had used the environment as an excuse to get control of the economy.

Here’s the second part of the interview.

At the end of the segment, Beck applauded Gingrich for agreeing to have the interview with him. Beck said:

“Newt, I have to tell you… obvious it was very clear in advance and I hope my staff made this very clear that this isn’t going to be an easy interview but I think you’ve… you know, there was no gaffes here by any stretch of the imagination. I didn’t expect any. But I appreciate the willingness to come on and answer the tough questions, and I wish you the best.”

What did you think of Glenn Beck’s interview with Newt Gingrich? Do you think Gingrich did a good job of handling Beck’s question?



Comments


8 Archived Responses to “ Watch: Glenn Beck Grills Newt Gingrich About Health Care, Government Spending [Video] ”

  1. Cindy Smetana
    Dec 6, 2011

    Glenn Beck your a nut job get the straight jacket on and muzzle to shout you up.

  2. Debra Diroll
    Dec 7, 2011

    Does ANYONE take either one of these guys seriously? More comedy fodder…

  3. Lisa Taylor
    Dec 7, 2011

    No Cindy, Mr. Beck is brilliant, honest and brave. Traits not found very often these days. I suggest you tune in, listen and learn. Also, "shout you up"? If you meant shut up, he won't and if you meant shout, doesn't do that either. Just lets the BOLD TRUTH speak for itself. :)

  4. Sandy Price
    Dec 7, 2011

    I have listened to Beck and Rush for many many years. Glen didn't used to been so far right. He used to think on his own about both sides. Then about 3-4 years ago he started becoming an extreamest. The more money he made from the right the more he went tottally right. He is now a fear monger and a Preacher. Close your eyes listen to his voice he's preaching. He wants you to invest in the SEED BANKS, and GOLD! Between him and Rush they made both companies very rich! FEAR sells! I for one do not want to live in the early 1900s it's 2011 and as time changes so do people! As far as the interview with Newt it was so staged! Newt has had 30 years or longer to help our counrty and he didn't but he sure has made the money and got to have 3 wives! He was in office when Bush and Cheney were for 8 years, did he try to stop the crash of the MIDDLE class? Jobs? Banks? Wall Street? Hedge Funds? Spectulators? Illegals working in most American jobs, factories, construction, painters, maids, landscapers, ect., ect. American Jobs! Get them back out in the farm fields where they are suppose to be till they become legals, so the farmers will stop blaming it on tighter imagration laws, not so they have my famlies jobs because they work for less to keep themselves out of the fields! Heck there are a lot of American jobs in Mexico so work there! Most of the extreme rich have the illegals working for them for less money. Middle class AMERICANS have the Right it make a living wage which is not $10.00's -$12.00's an hour. Hell I made that in the seventy's! I work harder than most of you but you will say I feel entitled! WHATEVER! Most of us want our America back. We want our children to have a future and not just the ones that were born into richness. Do you think Glen Becks children will ever have to worry about a roof over their heads? Not! What makes his children any different than mine. Mine our hard workers and good people we have worked for to get what we had only to have the powers that be take it and give away. Thet say we feel entitled. What do they feel? THEY ARE THE ENTITLED! How can people trust people who are being paid mega money to lead you! Don't get. TIME FOR PEOPLE TO THINK ON THEIR OWN! THANK GOD that young people are waking up! Thank you OCUPPY!

  5. Sandy Price
    Dec 7, 2011

    Newt, scarey thought!

  6. Erich Hoefert
    Dec 7, 2011

    Way to go Lisa!!!

  7. Esther Weiner Harrison
    Dec 7, 2011

    Whew…& thank you Sandy, you are so correct. (I don't even want to say "right") I used to watch Beck too, when you were talking about…I liked him then…now, Hell NO! & the same for Newt. Of all the rep. trying to run…Ron Paul makes about the most sense, I think but there is plenty more to hear & see. love ya!

  8. Sandy Price
    Dec 8, 2011

    Thanks Es for taking the time to read! You and I will be fine! It's our CHILDREN and GRANDCHILDEN I'm worried about! Love you my Friend!