Gingrich doubles down on France Bashing
Newt Gingrich knows his campaign is in desperate straits after his loss in Florida, but polling data shows Republican voters were favorably impressed by ad slamming Mitt Romney for speaking French.
In states with upcoming primaries, Gingrich will run an ad taking the anti-French theme even further, appearing himself with a globe in his hands and saying, "Unlike Mitt Romney, I not only don't SPEAK French, I can't find it on a globe."
Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum's campaign got an early copy of the ad and plans to go even further than Gingrich and say their candidate is uncertain of the very existence of France.
"If people want to believe in some theory of France because they read it in a book or heard it from some atheist humanist gay college professor, I can't stop them--but I can tell them they're wrong."
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Where is the obligitory "satire" icon? 
But seriously,these are the people who gave us "Freedom Fries". I thought Newt was being sarcastic... but thanks for pointing that out. 
...what will they come up with next? First the Concorde, and now this!
Good one.
Republican US presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich admitted Friday to speaking French "once upon a time" but said his dalliance with the language of Moliere was over.
Gingrich's comment came as a French reporter asked him about Afghanistan and apologized for her French accent.
"Do you know John Kerry?" he said, referring to the Democratic senator and failed 2004 presidential candidate, who speaks French and was mocked as looking French during that year's campaign.
The journalist followed up by asking Gingrich -- who spent several years in Orleans as a youth when his father was posted there as a soldier, during a period when France still hosted US military bases -- whether he spoke French.
"No. I did speak French once upon a time," he allowed.
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If Newt "can't find France on a globe" despite having lived there for several years, he has bigger memory problems than whether or not he remembers how to speak the French that he knew as a youth. 
