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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Michael Tomasky

I report, you decide

Exhibit A, a HuffPo summary of the new Esquire piece about Newt Gingrich, featuring the first-ever interview with Newt's second wife (he's on his third), who recounts the following conversation:

He asked her to just tolerate the affair, an offer she refused.

He'd just returned from Erie, Pennsylvania, where he'd given a speech full of high sentiments about compassion and family values.

The next night, they sat talking out on their back patio in Georgia. She said, "How do you give that speech and do what you're doing?"

"It doesn't matter what I do," he answered. "People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live."

Exhibit B, a list of traits associated with sociopathy.

You be the judge.

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