RON ZIEGLER WAS A TRUE CONSERVATIVE PIONEER

Decades later, former Press Secretary Scotty McClellan tried a variant of Ziegler's tactic, to no avail.  Now that he's in real bind, Newt Gingrich has decided to also give this inanity a try:

So now Newt has come up with a novel way of handling this. He has proclaimed, "Any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood." I certainly hope no one, Democrat or Republican, would stoop to the dirty trick of quoting Newt's words.