The Associated Press (AP) is reporting Republican Tea Party (GOTP) president wanna-be Newt Gingrich is backing his rival Herman “Pizza Man” Cain’s criticism of the news media in connection with the sexual harassment allegations against Cain.

The Newt told NBC’s “Today” show that news organizations care more about scandal than ordinary citizens struggling to make ends meet.

Yes, the news cares about scandal when it surrounds a candidate for the presidency, particularly one who’s been leading in polls for the past month; no, it doesn’t care about it more than “ordinary citizens struggling to make ends meet”, hence the continued coverage of the growing “Occupy” movement. Newt’s rather lame attempt to deflect the media is rather shallow, especially when none of the candidates running for the GOTP brass ring have shown the slightest concern for those “ordinary citizens”; nice attempt at slight-of-hand, however, coming from one of the king’s of political scandal Newt’s words not only lack relevance but they certainly lack credibility.

The former House speaker says voters want a “solution-oriented leader” more than a scandal. He says it’s up to Cain to handle in the way he sees fit. But Gingrich says there’s a gap between the “gossip” he believes journalists pursue, and more deep-seated problems like economic stagnation.

Gingrich says, “What does it mean to the elite news media that nobody in the country ever walks up to us and raises the questions you raise.” He questions the media’s “judgment” on what stories should be emphasized.

Funny how when Newter was the Speaker of the House he was more concerned with President Clinton’s sexual liaison – his scandal – in the Oval Office than with jobs or the “ordinary citizen”, and even led the impeachment all while having an illicit affair while his wife was fighting cancer. The “Speaker’s” sounding like he has an old axe to grind, and is far more concerned with clearing his own path from inquiries into his own sexually tainted past then in defending how Pizza Man’s been “victimized”.