After absorbing Sean Hannity's description of today's rather subtle speech, which changed the US government's position held by many presidents by barely a comma, as a "radical", "historic" event of seismic proportions, I guess I shouldn't be fazed by Gingrich's latest simple statement that he never said what he actually clearly said.
But it remains amazing how the essence of Palinism – the world is what I say it is, regardless of actual reality – is now endemic on the right. Money quote:
"And by the way, it was not a reference to Paul Ryan. There was no reference to Paul Ryan in that answer."
The broader context and the specific context of the on-the-record quote is as follows:
MR. GREGORY: But not what Paul Ryan is suggesting, which is completely changing Medicare.
REP. GINGRICH: I, I think that, I think, I think that that is too big a jump. I think what you want to have is a system where people voluntarily migrate to better outcomes, better solutions, better options, not one where you suddenly impose upon the–I don't want to–I'm against Obamacare, which is imposing radical change, and I would be against a conservative imposing radical change.
The Dish 