From Lexis, here's a transcript of last night's The O'Reilly Factor, where Newt Gingrich attacked Democrats for voting against the Schiavo bill.
O'REILLY: So Hillary and Schumer and Boxer and Feinstein, Kennedy, Kerry, Levin -- none of them go to Washington to try to stop this law. Are you surprised?
GINGRICH: Well, I'm a little surprised and actually pleased because I think the longer the dialogue was going on over the last four or five days, the more sympathetic people were for Terri Schiavo and her parents.
You know, it's a pretty tough thing to be the person who stands up and says I want to ensure that this human being dies. And I did notice about 59 of the liberal Democrats voted no in the House where it was a recorded and they had to go one way or the other.
But to go out of your way to stand up to object, boy, that would take on you a moral burden at a personal level and a distasteful burden. I mean, you know...
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O'REILLY: Sure. If you win, you lose. If you win...
GINGRICH: That's right.
O'REILLY: If you win, the woman dies a grisly death.
GINGRICH: You know, it's...
O'REILLY: So the only people who are going to do that are the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, but, still, I was very surprised that none of them -- and then when we asked them for statements, the mealy- mouthed stuff -- you know, so I'm saying to myself they're scared, right?
GINGRICH: I think they're both scared, but I also think that they have a good politician's instinct for the human side of this, that when you're dealing with people at a personal level, you just don't want to be uncaring, unsympathetic, harsh and ruthless.
Now, a quick reminder on Newt Gingrich's
qualifications to talk about morals.
WASHINGTON - Newt Gingrich won't be winning the Mr. Sensitivity Award any time soon.
The former House Speaker and his ex-wife, Marianne Gingrich, are in a bit of a dispute over whether Newt knew that she might have multiple sclerosis when he told her on Mother's Day 1999 that he wanted a divorce.
For the ham-handed Newtster, breakups are a touchy issue.
He notified his first wife, Jackie Battley, that he was divorcing her in 1981 after she was hospitalized with cancer.
Marianne's lawyer said Newt knew in September 1998 - eight months before he notified her that he was ditching her - that Marianne had been diagnosed with a neurological condition that might be a "forerunner of multiple sclerosis," according to the Atlanta neurosurgeon who treated her.
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Newt, 57, told Marianne, 48, he wanted to end their 19-year marriage while she was visiting his mother on Mother's Day.
Newt, 57, secretly had been having an affair with congressional aide Callista Bisek, 34, whom he plans to marry next month in Alexandria, Va. That would make the blond-haired Bisek wife No. 3 for the onetime Republican revolutionary.
Toensing said there's no doubt that Newt knew all about his wife's condition at the time she went to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta and was diagnosed with possible MS in September 1998, just before Newt announced he was giving up his job as speaker of the House and quitting Congress.
Classy. Oh, and here's some more from the show.
GINGRICH: Well, my understanding, though, is -- my understanding is the judge even ruled that they could not give her water without the tube, that she was cut off totally, as I understand it, even from water being given to her.
O'REILLY: Well, the judge -- I don't have any sympathy for this judge. He's an activist judge, and that's why Congress got him out of the picture. I mean, this has to go back with the resentment about gay marriage, other decisions that are being made unilaterally -- Pledge of Allegiance, 10 Commandments -- by judges.