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January 20, 2012 | | FEISTY In the first interview since her husband’s debacle, Anne Sinclair opened up to French ELLE, describing an ‘Orwellian’ invasion of privacy, and strikes back at her feminist critics. The Daily Beast’s Eric Pape breaks down her reemergence. Flailing Newt Gingrich’s gain is Mitt Romney’s loss, Frank Newport explained on MSNBC Friday. The editor in chief of the Gallup polling organization predicts that new data set to come out this afternoon will show Romney’s support “clearly collapsing.” Talking Points Memo confirms that its poll average also shows Romney slipping. “We have seen more movement, more rollercoaster kind of effect this year than any other Republican primary in our history of tracking,” said Newport, adding, “It wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility if Romney recovers. We’ll wait and see.” LIFELINE Salvagers stand ready to siphon 500,000 gallons of fuel from the Costa Concordia as the crippled ship teeters toward environmental disaster. But families of the 24 missing are pleading for more time. The Daily Beast’s Barbie Latza Nadeau reports. Upset? In the past week, Newt Gingrich has been in the spotlight, both for his arguably racist rhetoric (his janitorial jobs for urban kids plan and his insistence on calling Obama “the food-stamp president”) and for his ex-wife’s revelation that Newt proposed an open marriage while already in the middle of an affair with a young House staffer, which reinvigorated the stories of Gingrich’s philandering and cruelly timed divorces from two separate women with life-threatening illnesses. He also snapped at Thursday night’s debate when asked about his ex-wife’s interview. This is the type of attention that could kill a campaign, and yet the people of South Carolina are loving it! Polls show Gingrich’s support surging so high that he may even be on track to beat Mitt Romney in Saturday’s primary. Even Romney strategist Stuart Stevens has confirmed this idea. “Do I think we could lose South Carolina? Sure. Of course,” he told CNN, insisting the question shouldn’t be whether Romney could lose in South Carolina, it should be “Does he have a chance in South Carolina?” BLACKOUT It must have been really tough around the Senate without Wikipedia. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Friday that the vote on a controversial—and highly unpopular—online piracy bill had been delayed indefinitely. The House later announced a similar measure for its equivalent bill, known as the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. The bills had caused Wikipedia and several other websites to go dark Wednesday in protest. While a number of high-profile senators had pulled back their support of the bills in recent days, it placed Democrats between two powerful interest groups: Hollywood, which supports a crackdown on online piracy, and Silicon Valley, which believes the bills in their current form would hinder the Internet’s business model. One of the Senate bill’s sponsors, Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, said delaying the bill is a victory for “overseas criminals” who would “drain our economy.” | | 
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