Mediagazer: Gingrich Staffer Promptly Shuts Down Interview After Student Reporter Asks About Roger Ailes' Remark (Meenal Vamburkar/Mediaite)

3:00 PM ET, April 16, 2012

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Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite:

Gingrich Staffer Promptly Shuts Down Interview After Student Reporter Asks About Roger Ailes' Remark — A reporter for the University of North Carolina's paper, The Daily Tar Heel, wrote a piece describing an interview with GOP hopeful (he's still in the race, in case you forgot) Newt Gingrich.

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Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:

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Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:

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