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."
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