Fox News: Newt Gingrich won’t be returning to us, Roger Ailes says
Gingrich speaks during a campaign stop at a senior center on April 11 in Newark, Delaware.
So Newt and Fox News have arrived at splitsville, too, it seems.
The Herald Sun of Durham, North Carolina reports that Fox News Channel President Roger Ailes told journalism students as much in lecture yesterday.
More from GlobalPost: Gingrich: 'CNN is less biased than Fox'
Newt Gingrich — whose quixotic campaign has lumbered on like a zombie since he won his home state of Georgia early last month — this week said Fox News was partly to blame for his failures.
The station had decided to support front-runner Mitt Romney to the detriment of Newt 2012, Gingrich told Tea Party leaders in Delaware on Wednesday.
Ailes suggested yesterday that this meant Gingrich was hoping to become a CNN contributor.
Newt was sore, Ailes said, and was "trying to get a job at CNN because he knows he isn’t going to get to come back to Fox News.”
More from GlobalPost: Should the EU give up on green energy?
Gingrich was dropped last year by Fox after announcing that he would run for president, according to Yahoo! News.
“[H]e's still bitter about the fact that we terminated his contributor contract,” a Fox spokeswoman was quoted as saying.
Every day, reporters and producers at The World are hard at work bringing you human-centered news from across the globe. But we can’t do it without you. We need your support to ensure we can continue this work for another year.
Make a gift today, and you’ll help us unlock a matching gift of $67,000!