Gingrich is the new... Gingrich

For a brief, fleeting moment, sometime after Bush stole his second election, I actually thought that Newt Gingrich had actually turned into a reasonable, former politician. Wow, talk about your all-time miscalculations.

Quite frankly, he's the same guy he's always been - a partisan operative who will do and say anything to promote and advance his neocon agenda. His latest amusing rant concerns Sarah Palin and her portrayal on SNL by Tina Fey. Get this...

From HuffPo:

"This is a kind of deliberate, vicious, dishonest, total distortion of who Governor Palin is, including, by the way, the Saturday Night Live skits, some of which I think were slander and worthy of a lawsuit," the former Speaker of the House said. "I think the America people should realize that the elite media on the left is so desperate to elect Barack Obama that the view they're giving you of Sarah Palin is fundamentally a falsehood."

I think Gingrich is fit for a straight jacket. He really needs to take a basic media law course, too, or at the very least looking up the word parody in the dictionary would be a terrific idea.

Color him as just another Republican who has no sense of humor. If he really does feel this way, he has no understanding of the law, or at the very least, he must think that Fersatz News viewers don't. It wasn't long ago that Fox News tried suing Al Franken for using the term Fair and Balanced on the cover of his book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right Of course, Bill O'Reilly was behind the suit - his temper fueled by the fact that Franken was doing his best to get under his skin in the book (and even on the cover). In short, Franken did a magnificent job.

Oh, how I hope Gingrich is dumb enough to run for president someday.