Skip to main content
  • Online media
  • Tariffs
  • Epstein
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • RSS
  • Take Action
  • Search
  • Donate

Media Matters for America

  • News & Analysis
  • Research & Studies
  • Audio & Video
  • Archives

Media Matters for America

  • Nav
  • Search
  • News & Analysis
  • Research & Studies
  • Audio & Video
  • Archives
  • Online media
  • Tariffs
  • Epstein
  • Take Action
  • Search
  • Donate
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • RSS

Gingrich defends government shutdown in advising GOP to absolutely stop passage of spending bill

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 12/16/10 3:43 PM EST

From the December 16 edition of Fox News Channel's Happening Now:

Video file

Previously:

Fox's MacCallum suggests it wouldn't be “the end of the world” if “the government stops operating for a little while”

Limbaugh calls for a government shutdown

Plenty of Republicans are talking about a government shutdown, despite what Limbaugh says

Right-wing “cannot wait” for gov't shutdown, “just like in '95 and '96”

The Latest

  1. Cada Tarde host on ICE detaining American citizens: “I voted three times for Trump, and I have all the moral right to make a criticism, because I have given him too much praise”

    Video & Audio 01/22/26 10:50 AM EST

  2. Benny Johnson on Greenland: “President Trump ruling an empire. We are an empire once more.”

    Video & Audio 01/22/26 10:38 AM EST

  3. Tucker Carlson: “The defining fact of our lives is that whites around the world are being eliminated”

    Video & Audio 01/22/26 10:35 AM EST

  4. Newsmax's senior judicial analyst: “The thought that ICE wants to break down doors without a search warrant is profoundly un-American”

    Video & Audio 01/22/26 9:59 AM EST

  5. Fox host baffled by Trump's inclusion of Putin on his “Board of Peace”

    Video & Audio 01/22/26 9:34 AM EST

Pagination

  • Previous page ‹‹
  • …
  • Current page 28
  • …
  • Next page ››

In This Article

  • Newt Gingrich

    Newt-Gingrich-MMFA-Tag.png

Related

  1. Fox News falsely denies GOP's “One Big Beautiful Bill” will impact Medicaid while defending cuts in the bill

    Research/Study 07/01/25 2:32 PM EDT

  2. Right-wing media push Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill as estimates find over 11,000 could die annually from loss of Medicaid

    Article 06/24/25 4:00 PM EDT

  3. Media Matters weekly newsletter, June 6

    Narrative/Timeline 06/06/25 10:45 AM EDT

Media Matters for America

Sign Up for Email Updates
  • About
  • Contact
  • Corrections
  • Submissions
  • Jobs
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • RSS

© 2026 Media Matters for America

RSS