Newt Walks Out on Student Interview

Newt Gingrich agreed to an interview with a University of North Carolina student journalist, but the meeting was over after the first question. The Daily Tarheel reporter wasted no time addressing Gingrich’s recent charge against Fox News for being pro-Romney, and asked the former speaker about Fox’s suggestion that Gingrich was simply speaking out in an effort to get a CNN gig. “His aide gave no preconditions; no topics were off limits. That’s why I was so surprised when, before I had finished asking my first question, that same aide cut the interview short and prompted Secret Service to grab and briefly detain me as the former speaker was led away,” the reporter wrote.