Gingrich Aide Blasts Media 'Minions'

Michael Calderone at Huffington Post reports:

The Gingrich camp thinks the punditocracy's got it all wrong. When asked by The Huffington Post about media coverage this past week, Gingrich press secretary Rick Tyler fired off a response blasting the political and media elite.

The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding,” Tyler wrote. “Washington cannot tolerate threats from outsiders who might disrupt their comfortable world. The firefight started when the cowardly sensed weakness. They fired timidly at first, then the sheep not wanting to be dropped from the establishment’s cocktail party invite list unloaded their entire clip, firing without taking aim their distortions and falsehoods. Now they are left exposed by their bylines and handles. But surely they had killed him off. This is the way it always worked. A lesser person could not have survived the first few minutes of the onslaught. But out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged Gingrich, once again ready to lead those who won’t be intimated by the political elite and are ready to take on the challenges America faces.

It’s not uncommon for Republican presidential candidates to swing at the press. For instance, George H.W. Bush's campaign gave out bumper stickers reading “Annoy the Media, Vote for Bush.” And former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin routinely slammed the media during the 2008 campaign. But Tyler’s response, stylistically resembling a Medieval prologue of a valiant knight heading off to battle, may just take Republican media criticism to another level for 2012.