That "B" word keeps bouncing back.
Kathleen Gingrich said she still can't fathom the fuss over her comment on national television that her son, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, once called the first lady a bitch. Then she repeated the word again. And again. And again.In an interview Saturday with "American Journal," Kathleen Gingrich also called CBS anchorwoman Connie Chung "two-faced" for broadcasting her remarks two days earlier after promising they would be "just between you and me."
Asked by the syndicated news magazine about her son's remark, Kathleen Gingrich said, "What's all the fuss about? Because I said she is a bitch?"
"I asked, `What is she like?' He said, `Mother, she's a bitch. That's all he said. Nothing else. He said, `She's a bitch,' " Kathleen Gingrich said in the interview.
CBS has defended Chung's interview, saying Kathleen Gingrich, surrounded by cameras and lights, made the comment in an obvious stage whisper.
Gingrich has not denied making the remark about Hillary Rodham Clinton. Nonetheless, the first lady has invited the Gingriches to the White House. Gingrich has accepted the offer, but a date was not set, said his spokesman, Allan Lipsett.
Television producer and Clinton friend Linda Bloodworth-Thomason said in Pasadena, Calif., that the first lady doesn't deserve the tag.
"I deplore the use of that word because it's a bankrupt way to put down women in general," Blood-worth-Thomason said Saturday to the Television Critics Association.