GingrichEstupido

As Think Progress reports, never mind the fact that Newt Gingrich hates Mexicans, has called Spanish a "ghetto language," and called Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor a "racist," homeboy is now Twittering in Espanol.

Last year Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House, and the man many consider one of the intellectuals of the Republican party, saw how the country's growing Brown demographics would quickly spell doom for the GOP, and so he set out to learn the language of Cervantes, Marquez and Chingo Bling. As Newt's PR flack put it...

The classes are being provided by an Atlanta-based institute, Bilingual America. (The institute's name seems a bit ironic, given that Mr. Gingrich reportedly said last weekend that "allowing bilingualism to continue to grow is very dangerous." But of course, I have to remember that he's offered a clarification for what he said last week.)

Mr. DeSantis says that Mr. Gingrich has studied 100 hours of a 280-hour Spanish course offered by the institute. In the first 120 hours, he is focusing mostly on vocabulary development and structure. After that, he'll focus on pronunciation, speech flow, and advanced structure. "When he finishes the course," Mr. DeSantis wrote in an e-mail, "Bilingual America projects him to communicate at a professonal level of Spanish or at the advanced-plus to superior level as rated by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages."

And for those of you wondering, here's the full quote where Newt somehow conflates living in the ghetto with his opposition to bilingual education.

"The American people believe English should be the official language of the government. ... We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto."

Still unclear if Newt''s going to translate the above "thoughts" for his next ghetto Tweet.

Comments

[El Profe]

His tweet doesn't even make sense. He can't find bilingual people to help him organize a coherent thought before he tries pandering?

[Carlos Guerra, columnist, San Antonio Express-News]

When el Newt was speaker of the House, his office sent out a news release that said it came from, "La Oficina de el Hablador de la Casa." I wrote about it and gave him a tip of the hat for truth in advertising.

[Abraham]

Nice catch, haha.

I wonder what kind of people are actually subscribed to him in Spanish.

[Witch]

i think spanish is a beautiful language!I would love to learn it.And some of the best looking people in hollywood are spanish.I have noticed the best workers that work for my brothers construction company(and the nicest)are the mexicans,they do their work and treat my mother and myself with kindness when they come to get their checks.It saddens me to see how alot of the mexicans here in Tennessee are treated.