Todd Palin Endorses Newt Gingrich For President

Sarah Palin?s husband is endorsing Newt Gingrich for president. Yes, Todd Palin has offered an official endorsement, as Sarah is still - shockingly - making up her mind.

The former Alaska governor and John McCain?s 2008 Republican running mate has yet to decide ?who is best able to go up against Barack Obama,? Todd Palin said.

Todd, however, respects Gingrich for what he went through in the '90s and compared that scrutiny in public life to what Sarah Palin went through running for V.P.

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Todd Palin said he believes being in the political trenches and experiencing the highs and lows help prepare a candidate for the future and the job of president.

He has not spoken to the Gingrich campaign and did not criticize any of the other GOP candidates and said his ?hat is off to everyone? in the Republican race.

But Todd did point to last summer, when a large portion of Gingrich?s staff resigned and the candidate was left, largely by himself, to run the campaign.

Gingrich?s ability to overcome the obstacle and still move up in the polls showed his ability to campaign and survive, according to an impressed Todd Palin.

"Newt Gingrich is not one of the typical beltway types" and his campaign has ?burst out of the political arena and touched many Americans,? he said.

No word if the First Dude plans to appear on the former House Speaker's behalf or if his wife will follow suit in the run-up to the South Carolina primary.

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GOP rivals target Romney 2 days before NH primary (AP)

CONCORD, N.H. ? With the hours slipping away before New Hampshire's presidential primary, Republican rivals fought on multiple fronts Sunday to slow Mitt Romney's march toward his party's nomination.

Their efforts were on display in a combative morning debate and in campaign stops across the state amid the growing belief that the window to stop Romney's momentum was closing. Having narrowly won last week's Iowa caucuses, the former Massachusetts governor is the overwhelming front-runner in New Hampshire's election Tuesday ? the first presidential primary election in the nation ? and is poised to do well in the subsequent contests.

"The case for the alternative is rapidly disappearing," Romney adviser Tom Rath said.

With that fear in mind, the Republican contenders fanned out across the state Sunday to deliver their closing arguments directly to voters.

Gingrich, the former House speaker, blasted Romney as a "Massachusetts moderate" and warned that a video being released by his allies would attack Romney's business career.

"To quote the governor, you have to have broad shoulders and you have to be able to take the heat to be in the kitchen," Gingrich said.

If Gingrich was Romney's chief critic, he was hardly alone.

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum pointedly asked Romney during the debate why he hadn't sought re-election after one term as governor in the neighboring state.

"Why did you bail out?" Santorum asked.

Romney fired back with a reference to Santorum's lucrative career in the six years since he lost his Senate seat. Describing politicians who lose office but stay in Washington "and make money as lobbyists or conducting their businesses," Romney said, "I think it stinks."

Romney won the Iowa caucuses last Tuesday by a scant eight votes over Santorum, but he is so far ahead in New Hampshire polls that his rivals have virtually conceded he will win. But they've also joined with an unlikely ally in fueling an evolving expectations game.

"If Mitt Romney doesn't get over 50 percent on Tuesday here, being a former governor of the state right next door and having a family home here, then there's something seriously wrong," said Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who spoke to reporters outside the debate hall.

An increasingly confident Romney campaign countered by highlighting the possibility of back-to-back victories in Iowa and New Hampshire.

"If Mitt wins, I think the history-making nature of that win will overwhelm all the other coverage of the race to this point," senior Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom said. "No non-incumbent Republican has won both Iowa and New Hampshire."

New Hampshire success has traditionally helped shape the outcome of the subsequent contest in South Carolina, which holds the South's first primary on Jan. 21.

While Gingrich, Santorum and the rest of Romney's rivals direly need success in South Carolina, Romney noted that he has been endorsed by that state's governor, Nikki Haley, who visited New Hampshire on his behalf this weekend.

Still, Santorum shifted his focus to South Carolina as he tries to become the favored candidate of social conservatives.

He scheduled a brief visit to upstate South Carolina Sunday to pick up the endorsement of former Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer. Both Santorum and an outside group supporting him are pumping money into the state for TV ads, starting Monday, after aides said the former Pennsylvania senator pulled in $2 million in the two days after the Iowa caucuses.

Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who skipped Iowa in hopes of a breakout showing in New Hampshire, was mobbed at a coffee shop in Hampstead, where he stood on the counter to ask the crowd to mobilize on his behalf.

Defending his service in the Obama administration, Huntsman said: "I put my country first. Apparently Mitt Romney doesn't believe in putting country first.

"He's got this bumper sticker that says ... `Believe in America.' How can you believe in America when you're not willing to serve America? That's just phony nonsense."

Gingrich's jabs at Romney have intensified in recent days despite his recent promise to avoid a negative campaign. He accused Romney of "pious baloney" in the debate and charged him with hiding behind inaccurate attack ads aired by allies.

Gingrich briefly led the pack before his surge was blunted by a series of ads aired in Iowa by a super PAC operated by former Romney aides and supporters. Gingrich has complained bitterly that the attacks were false.

On Sunday, a Gingrich-supporting super PAC launched a website criticizing Romney's leadership of an investment firm. The website says the firm, Bain Capital, eliminated the jobs of thousands of Americans when it took over their companies.

Asked if he was being consistent, Gingrich said, "I'm consistent because I think you ought to have fact-based campaigns."

He demanded Romney say whether the attacks against Gingrich were true.

Romney replied: "I haven't seen them, and as you know, under the law, I can't direct the ads. If there's anything in the ads that are wrong, I hope they take it out."

Yet moments after saying he hadn't seen the commercials, he recited the charges they made and said they were accurate: that Gingrich had been forced to resign as speaker, that he had once talked of finding common ground with House Democrats on climate change and that he had called a House Republican proposal to overhaul Medicare "right-wing social engineering."

Gingrich hedged when he confronted with one of his own campaign leaflets declaring Romney to be unelectable against President Barack Obama. "I think he'll have a very hard time getting elected," was as far as Gingrich would go.

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Associated Press writers Holly Ramer in New Hampshire and Thomas Beaumont in South Carolina contributed to this report.

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Who Won The NBC Facebook Republican Debate? -Media Training

TJ Walker is the founder and managing editor of Daily National (www.dailynational.com), he is also the CEO of Media Training Worldwide (www.mediatrainingworldwide.com), a leading media and presentation training firm. For the last 25 years he has trained CEOs, Prime Ministers, Presidents of countries, Nobel Peace Prize winners, US Senators, Members of Parliament and Miss Universes how to communicate more effectively. In 2010, Walker created TJWalker Interactive (www.TJWalker.com), a communication news/analysis site that features daily text, video and audio on top stories of the day. Walker is also the author of ?TJ Walker?s Secret to Foolproof Presentations,? a #1 USA Today Bestseller, and a Wall Street Journal and Business week Bestseller. In 2009, Walker set the Guinness Book of World Records for most talk show appearances ever in a 24 hour period. Based, in New York City, Walker trains and gives speeches all over the world.

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Why did Brad Pitt carry a cane on the red carpet?

Brad Pitt has been sporting a new accessory in recent days ? a cane ? due to an injury to his ACL (a ligament in the knee).

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The ?Moneyball? star revealed he suffered the injury in order to protect his daughter during an accidental fall.

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?I was carrying my daughter (Vivienne) down the hill and I slipped,? Brad, 48, explained to reporters at the 23rd International Palm Springs Film Festival in Palm Springs, Calif., on Saturday. ?It was either her or me.?

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Brad?s longtime love, Angelina Jolie, said she doesn?t mind Brad?s new adornment.

?I like the cane,? she told reporters, adding that the injury hasn?t slowed Brad down. ?He?s not that kind of guy. He does everything still.?

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Thanks to dad Brad?s valiant actions, Angelina said their 3-year-old daughter did not sustain any injuries.

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?Vivie?s okay,? Angelina said. ?She was absolutely fine.?

Angie also revealed that she too has sustained an injury for the sake of her offspring.

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?I think all parents get injured in the line of fire. When Maddox was young, I fell and hurt my elbow,? she said. ?It?s a pretty common occurrence.?

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Jon Huntsman banks on his 'Reagan moment' in New Hampshire ( video)

Jon Huntsman appears to have made inroads with New Hampshire primary voters during a heated exchange with Mitt Romney Sunday. But time is running out.

It?s been a long march out of obscurity, but former Utah Gov.?Jon Huntsman Jr. may have found his ?Reagan moment? in New Hampshire.

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During a famous 1980 debate in Nashua, N.H., candidate Ronald Reagan barked at a moderator who was attempting to shut off the sound, ?I?m paying for this microphone, Mr. Green!???

The audience roared and George Bush, the front-runner, never recovered from that moment, which came to define the challenger as the stronger of the two.

Now, thanks to a?rare flare-up with front-runner Mitt Romney in Sunday morning?s NBC presidential debate, New Hampshire residents are abuzz about a Huntsman outburst.?During a Huntsman campaign stop outside Marie?s Bakery in Henniker, N.H., Monday morning, patrons chanted his words: ?Country first!?Country first!???

?This is a turning point,? says Wayne Lesperance, a political scientist at New England College in Henniker, who was present at the event and confirms that the chanters were not campaign staff or even typically involved in politics.??Whether it?s too little, too late remains to be seen.?

Huntsman's "my country first" moment began in Saturday night's debate, when Mr. Romney attacked him for serving as US ambassador to China under President Obama.?

?You were, the last two years, implementing the policies of this administration in China," said Romney. "The rest of us on this stage were doing our best to get Republicans elected across the country and stop the policies of this president from being put forward.??

On Sunday, Huntsman returned to that exchange at his first opportunity.

?I was criticized last night by Governor Romney for putting my country first,? he said. ?He criticized me, while he was out raising money, for serving my country in China ? yes, under a Democrat, like my two sons are doing in the United States Navy. They?re not asking who ? [or] what political affiliation the president is. And I want to be very clear with the people here in New Hampshire and this country: I will always put my country first.?

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Love and war rage as PBS' 'Downton Abbey' returns (AP)

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. ? It's an irony that acid-tongued Violet, aka the dowager countess of Grantham, would savor: One of TV's hottest romances is playing out among English nobility, with nary a cell phone or laptop in sight and, most shockingly, on PBS.

"Downton Abbey" devotees eagerly await the drama's season two return 9-11 p.m. EST Sunday, when the romance of Matthew and Lady Mary resumes its rocky course as World War I scars Europe. There's also fallout from the war within Mary's family digs, the stately mansion that gives the series its name.

Consider it "Yorkshire 90210," but with writer-creator Julian Fellowes' witty dialogue and rich characters, stunning period costumes and (generally) chaste love affairs.

Michelle Dockery and Dan Stevens, who play the star-crossed young couple, said they are both delighted and surprised at the series' international success.

"It's huge in Australia," Dockery said.

"And Spain," added Stevens. The 11 Emmy nominations and six trophies, including best miniseries, earned by the period drama's first season were a thrill: "For a show like this to get that kind of attention over here, it's great," he said.

Success has created a burden of secrecy regarding the fate of young lawyer Matthew, unexpected heir to Downton under England's early 20th-century inheritance laws, and Mary, who could keep her family's hold on the estate by marrying him.

In season one, the willful Mary had rejected, accepted and rejected again smitten Matthew, and then she was rebuffed. Now both have turned elsewhere for love, while war and other historical events toy with their fates.

Dockery, 30, and Stevens, 29, project such on-screen chemistry that people who know better confuse fiction with fact.

"There was a great picture of me and Dan at the Derby (the famed horse race) and even my boyfriend said, `It kind of looks like you're together,'" Dockery said, smiling.

Fans are desperate to know what happens next.

"Not least my own wife," said Stevens, interviewed on a California visit before season two aired in the U.K. "She's forever trying to find the scripts and is desperate to read them."

Spouse Susie Hariet now knows the story so far, with the season just concluded in Britain (a third season has been announced). But U.S. viewers who avoid spoilers online must wait for the drama to unfold over seven weeks, through Feb. 19.

Downton's younger generation matures quickly during wartime, with Matthew tested as an army officer slogging through trench warfare in France.

"It was a real delicious challenge to take on, such a far cry from the first season for me. I was caked in mud for half the series," Stevens said. "For a lot of us, it feels like a graduation in terms of what was asked of us, emotionally, and the intensity of the story lines. The stakes were higher and everything is notched up one or two pegs."

Dockery said she and Stevens got the chance to switch up their acting game.

"Matthew becomes more harder as a result of what he's seen and been through, and Mary's much softer. It's really interesting playing that," she said.

There's more to "Downton Abbey," of course, than one star-crossed couple. Robert, the earl of Grantham (Hugh Bonneville), is itching to jump into the war, while wife Cora (Elizabeth McGovern) and younger daughters Edith (Laura Carmichael) and Sybil (Jessica Brown Findlay) make their own wartime contributions, and the girls pursue romance.

And there's major action downstairs. Among the estate's servants, some are called for war duty while Bates (Brendan Coyle), Lord Grantham's valet, and head housemaid Anna (Joanne Froggatt), find their future together endangered by Bates' vengeful estranged wife.

Commenting with glee and self-interest on the action is Violet, her lines delivered impeccably by grande dame actress Maggie Smith, a 2011 Emmy-winner for her portrayal. In a scene in which she gives her granddaughters approval to aid the war effort, Violet reminds them that Great Aunt Roberta "loaded the guns at Lucknow."

Fellowes, the man behind all the clever words and stories, already proved his mastery of the genre with the Oscar-winning script for the 2001 stately mansion drama "Gosford Park."

PBS is hoping for a repeat of last year's ratings bonanza. "Masterpiece," the umbrella series under which "Downton Abbey" airs, had a 30 percent ratings increase and saw its ratings for young adult female viewers double.

New "Masterpiece" sponsor Viking River Cruises, which stepped in last year in after a difficult search to replace longtime underwriter ExxonMobil, found the experience rewarding enough to agree to support the series for 2012.

Another fund established to allow public TV station contributors to make direct donations to "Masterpiece" of $25,000 and up met its goal of $1 million, "Masterpiece" executive producer Rebecca Eaton said recently.

That's "a Godsend as we go forward, because these programs are not getting any cheaper," she said. PBS teamed with British producers on the series.

Eaton gave vague but tantalizing hints of what is in store for season three, which will be set in the 1920s and which PBS hopes to air a year from now.

"People will live. People will die. People get married. People get born. Bates will probably continue to be in trouble. That man cannot seem to get out of trouble," she said.

Amen, say "Downton" fans.

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EDITOR'S NOTE ? Lynn Elber is a national television columnist for The Associated Press. She can be reached at lelber(at)ap.org.

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HTC Titan II with LTE for AT&T hands-on

It's here and the rumors were true -- the HTC Titan II is basically an HTC Titan with LTE for AT&T and a 16 megapixel camera with backside illuminated sensor, f/2.6 AF lens and dual LED flash (vs eight megapixels sensor and f/2.2 lens on the original). The industrial design is more traditional HTC (think Thunderbolt) -- gone is the rather elegant look and feel of its predecessor, along with removable battery (although the pack grows from 1600mAh to 1730mAh). We're extremely impressed with the camera so far and are currently taking sample shots. Stay tuned for a hands-on video and more impressions shortly.

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Fujifilm confirms X-Pro1 at CES: 16MP APS-C sensor, interchangeable lenses, price TBA

Amazon all but confirmed the camera's existence when it leaked three lens pages yesterday, but Fujifilm just officially unveiled the X-Pro1 at CES, in all its rangefinder-esque goodness. The camera's centerpiece is an APS-C sensor, but unlike the X100 and X10, Fujifilm's new flagship includes an interchangeable lens mount. The camera can capture 16 megapixel stills, and will be compatible with three lenses at launch: an XF 18mm (27mm equivalent) f/2.0, 35mm (53mm equivalent) f/1.4 lens and a larger 60mm (91mm equivalent) f/2.4 macro lens, though the company says it plans to introduce nine more lenses within the next three years. Pricing hasn't been announced for the camera or lenses, though yesterday's Amazon link listed pricing at $500 for the first two lenses, and $600 for the 60mm macro. The camera itself will ship in late February, so you won't need to wait long to get your hands on the first Fujifilm X-series ILC. Jump past the break for the full PR, and keep an eye out for our hands-on later this week.

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