{"id":4669,"date":"2011-03-10T00:39:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T04:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=4669"},"modified":"2011-03-31T00:49:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T04:49:52","slug":"newt-gingrich-infidelity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/03\/10\/newt-gingrich-infidelity\/","title":{"rendered":"Newt’s Fishy Excuses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever answered a “what’s your worst fault” question from a prospective employer by mentioning a positive trait? <\/p>\n

Newt Gingrich is apparently familiar with that technique. What else can explain the excuses he gave for having been unfaithful to two sick wives<\/a>? It seems his infidelity was “partially driven by how passionately [he] felt about this country” and the fact that he “worked far too hard.”<\/p>\n

So, you ready to hire him for the next White House opening? What about dog catcher?<\/p>\n

Newt’s Fishy Excuses
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Mr. Newt has an oddball excuse
\nFor something that’s close to abuse:
\nAbandoning wives
\nWho were ill just derives
\nFrom his working too hard? How obtuse!<\/p>\n

(More Newt Gingrich humor here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever answered a “what’s your worst fault” question from a prospective employer by mentioning a positive trait? Newt Gingrich is apparently familiar with that technique. What else can explain the excuses he gave for having been unfaithful to two sick wives? It seems his infidelity was “partially driven by how passionately [he] felt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,21,1147,641,20,159,519,6,7,3,1551,9,17,69],"tags":[194,1148,1539,729,347,240,2761],"class_list":["post-4669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-excuses-satire","category-family-values-humor","category-gop-humor","category-hypocrisy-humor","category-newt-gingrich-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-publicity-hounds","category-republicans","category-white-house","category-wingnuts","tag-election-humor","tag-excuses-humor","tag-infidelity","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-presidential-campaign-humor","tag-presidential-election","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4669"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4769,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669\/revisions\/4769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}