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Gringrich was able to use rhetorical words to make his point, capture the attention of the media and make it stick with the American people. On Gingrich coming to Washington in the shadow of Vietnam and Watergate. And rather than focusing all the time on right versus left, conservative versus liberal, he went after the Democrats.

He called them a corrupt Democratic establishment that maintained its power unfairly, unconstitutionally. Democrats had passed many reforms during the s to make Washington a better place. They had instituted ethics reforms, for example, that tried to hold leaders more accountable.

They had changed the campaign finance laws and a new generation of Democrats had entered and they thought that would be sufficient. And they didn't understand that Gingrich had a whole other kind of political game in mind. In , he would go on C-SPAN all the time, speaking from the floor of the House, basically accusing Democrats of being unpatriotic and not supporting Ronald Reagan's efforts to fight communism.

When he goes after Speaker Jim Wright in , he essentially criminalizes the speaker arguing he's trying to fill his pockets at the expense of taxpayers. And he tells them, use words like corruption, traitors, sick [and] radical as a way to describe your opponent. So language was essential to him in large part because the right language would get you the attention that he needed.

This was one of his first big moments in Washington. And he and a group of Republicans had gone on every night and made these blistering speeches about specific Democrats. And viewers didn't know the chamber was empty. So when Democrats didn't respond to the charges, it looked like they were guilty. And then when Speaker Tip O'Neill turns the cameras on the chamber and shows it's empty and when he makes that speech about Gingrich — Gingrich doesn't stop.

They're corrupt. And for the first time, because of the confrontation, Gingrich was on national television and he really arrived as a figure. So he understood how to play the whole news cycle and that story of cam scam incredibly well. On how and why Gingrich took down Speaker Jim Wright. He's an old school Texas Democrat, believed in the social safety net.

He was not a dove, but he also believed in restraint overseas, especially after Vietnam. Gingrich picks up on stories that had emerged in the national and Texas press about Wright. And there were lots of different stories, too. Gingrich, Newt, and Vince Haley. Gingrich, Newt, with Joe DeSantis. Maraniss, David, and Michael Weisskopf. Tell Newt to Shut Up! Rodkey, Geoff.

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