Gingrich Gaffe

Newt Gingrich is in trouble again, having gaffed while trying to brush off another gaffe made earlier this week on The Daily Show, succeeding only in digging his hole deeper…”He insisted that the Bush administration was right to read shoe bomber Richard Reid his Miranda rights because he was an American citizen…In a post on his Twitter page, Gingrich explained that when he made the Reid comment to The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart his reference was actually to Jose Padilla. Reid, after all, is a British citizen—Padilla is American. But Gingrich wasn’t done there. In a dig at the Obama White House, he added to the tail end of his tweet: ‘Treating terrorists like criminals wrong no matter who is Pres.” That’s a standard GOP talking point, and yet when President Bush moved the Padilla case from a military setting to the criminal system, it was Gingrich who came to his defense despite conservative howls of protest, a Democratic source points out.”