It is worth recalling, I think, what Newt Gingrich told National Review Online fifteen months ago.
Gingrich was interviewed after the premiere of his world-changing film, America at Risk, which went on to send tremors through the political establishment immediate and richly deserved obscurity. Gingrich was commenting on an article by a fellow noted disgraced crackpot, Dinesh D'Souza, that had appeared shortly before in Forbes magazine.
Gingrich said D'Souza's ramblings - the kind of untethered admonitions one sadly hears from those found speaking loudly to themselves on city streets (but evidently welcome on the pages of Forbes) - provided a "stunning insight" into Barack Obama; in fact, D'Souza's hilarious paranoid diatribe was, to Gingrich, the "most profound insight I have read in the last six years about Barack Obama."
Here is what Gingrich told NRO:
“What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?”
Yes, he actually said that. On the record. To a reporter.
Evidently not satisfied with coughing up bizarre non sequiturs, Gingrich heaped unintentional irony onto the pile:
“This is a person who is fundamentally out of touch with how the world works, who happened to have played a wonderful con, as a result of which he is now president,” Gingrich tells us.
Yes, Newton Leroy Gingrich said that - about someone else. With a straight face.
And then he said this:
“I think Obama gets up every morning with a worldview that is fundamentally wrong about reality,” Gingrich says. “If you look at the continuous denial of reality, there has got to be a point where someone stands up and says that this is just factually insane.”
So, Newt - you're saying the president of the United States is insane?
Excellent move.