For 17 years, and 12 on a national basis, Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford hosted a morning talk show with a broad spectrum of topics that ultimately became a ratings hit throughout the 1990s and into the year 2000.
And thats exactly what former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich would like to reproduce with his wife Callista now that he no longer has a TV home with the Fox News Channel after leaving last year to run for president.
In an editorial meeting with The Daily Caller on Friday, Gingrich revealed these plans.
Callista and I are exploring doing a daily show but doing one that is probably closer to Regis and Kathie Lee than it is to Bill OReilly, Gingrich said. I dont know that I want to spend the next five years of my life doing an hour a night on attacking Barack Obama, or attacking the next president if its Romney because he wasnt conservative enough this morning when he had coffee except he wouldnt have coffee.