It’s no surprise that Newt Gingrich is rising in the polls. After all, Stephen Colbert said Wednesday, “he’s the only candidate that appears to be made of dough.”
But Gingrich’s campaign didn’t have a great summer: after the former House speaker took a luxury cruise in Greece, his campaign staff resigned en masse. But in Iowa on Wednesday, Gingrich explained that the fancy-schmancy cruise was really a fact-finding mission!
“I visited Greece in June, I talked to people about what they were faced with in Greece,” Gingrich said. “And I listened to them and I tried to understand the face of a crisis of enormous proportions.”
Well, that puts Gingrich’s other campaign stumbles in perspective, Colbert said. His wife’s huge credit at Tiffany’s? That was just Gingrich researching reckless spending habits that threaten America’s economy. His so-called manufactured Twitter followers? A lesson in Internet fraud. And, finally, the wives he cheated on, including one who was battling cancer.
“That … was not gay,” Colbert said.
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