Gingrich Apologizes Via YouTube For "Ghetto" Slur

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Gingrich Apologizes Via YouTube For "Ghetto" Slur

Rachel Sklar | Posted Wednesday April 4, 2007 at 04:28 PM

Score another political point for YouTube: Newt Gingrich, who recently created an uproar when he said that bilingual education taught "the language of living in a ghetto" and suggesteed that it was a waste to print electoral ballots in multiple languages "depending on who randomly shows up" to vote. Not surprisingly, Hispanic Americans were outraged at his characterization of their native tongue as a ghetto language. Yesterday, Newt tried to clarify by saying, essentially, "no no I meant the Jews" — not exactly an ideal backtrack (and kind of ironic timing considering it's Passover, festival or freedom). Gingrich's point — and he did have one — was that people who don't speaky the language cut themselves off from "language of prosperity." Oooh, so that's what was holding back the Jews in Lodz!

Today, a scant two hours ago, Gingrich posted two videos to his personal YouTube channel (scarily titled "Winning The Future: A 21st Century Contract With America" — um, have any doubts as to his 2008 intentions?). One video is in English, one is in Spanish with English subtitles, where he apologizes for his "poor word choice" (leading to a "mal sentimiento" in the "communidad Latino") and clarifies that all he meant to say was, hey, if you want to get ahead in this country, baby, you gotta hablo the Ingles. Not that Spanish is a language "without beauty" 'cause it's not; on the contrary, the 45 million Latino votes in the country are beautiful, indeed. He also tells us that he has actually been taking Spanish lessons on the sly (so he must like it!) and, in a sort of adorable-until-we- remember-it's-Newt- Gingrich moment, that "I know that my Spanish is not perfect but I am studying so it will be better." Aw. You'll fit right in in the favelas! Newt sends this message, he says, from a sincere heart. Latinos, he's on it. Jews, he sort of forgot about you, but don't worry. How many of you can vote?

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1. HA-----but he was not man enough to do it on live TV the other day!! JERK

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2. Is he going into re-hab????

Remember they made the guy from Seinfeld seek redemption there.

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3. Why do people still put a mic in front of this moran?

He's a has-been. PLEASE.

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4. I find it interesting

That he couldn't even get MSM coverage for his statements. This is good--maybe they understand that he is IRRELEVANT.