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#NewtPornFail (Special Pink Visual Edition)

#NewtPornFail (Special Pink Visual Edition)

I’ve seen this happen before. Rightwing group comes up with bogus ‘awards’ and ‘honors’ to sucker in egomaniac political contributors. But they get so hard up and desperate that they go and award one to someone in the porn business or something like that

Today it was Newt Gingrich’s turn.

Newt, or actually his 527 group American Solutions, named Allison Vivas of porn studio ‘Pink Visual’ as its “Entrepreneur of the Year.”

And she was more than game.

Late Update: If you really can’t get enough, here’s the actual letter granting the prestigious award.

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