Gingrich Slams WaPo for Attacking Nancy Reagan in Obit

EARHARDT: “Mr. Speaker, I want to read ‘The Washington Post’ obit this morning that criticizes Nancy Reagan and get your reaction. It says, quote, ‘Nancy Reagan had an undeniable knack for inviting controversy. There were her extravagant spending habits at a time of double-digit unemployment, a chaotic relationship with her children and stepchildren that could rival a soap-opera plot, and the jaw-dropping news that she had insisted the White House abide by an astrologer when planning the president’s schedule. What is your reaction to that?”
GINGRICH: “That is typically, utterly stupid of somebody at the ‘post’ to get out a personal vendetta at a time when she’s passed away. Everything they just said is stupid. The fact is, first ladies have often had remarkable dresses. Somehow, if it was Hillary Clinton or Mrs. Obama, it doesn’t matter. But Nancy Reagan was a conservative Republican. She was an outsider. The city never took to her. The whole thing with astrologers was silly, I said so at the time, and actually I had a personal call from the president thanking me for standing up for his wife. She — people who couldn’t attack Ronnie could attack Nancy. And so, she took a lot of the brunt of people who were petty and mean-spirited particularly in the city where there were a number of people who resented her coming from Hollywood and not being one of them. She wasn’t a Georgetown person. She was a Hollywood person and she left here as a Hollywood person.”