Newt Gingrich

Gingrich Promotes Right-Winger D'Souza's Description Of Obama As 'Kenyan Anti-Colonial'

Eric Kleefeld | September 13, 2010, 11:19AM

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA)

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) is digging in on his contention that President Obama is motivated by a "Kenyan, anti-colonial" ideology -- and citing a very interesting source for the argument, the right-wing author Dinesh D'Souza, who has written sympathetically of Islamic extremism against what he has described as America's decadent cultural liberalism.

As National Review's Robert Costa reported over the weekend:

Gingrich says that D'Souza has made a "stunning insight" into Obama's behavior -- the "most profound insight I have read in the last six years about Barack Obama."

"What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?" Gingrich asks. "That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior."

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