{"id":6796,"date":"2012-01-07T23:53:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T23:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=6796"},"modified":"2012-01-07T23:53:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T23:53:06","slug":"foot-mouth-gingrich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/foot-mouth-gingrich\/","title":{"rendered":"Foot, Mouth, Gingrich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Newt-Gingrich.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Newt-Gingrich-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Newt Gingrich\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6797\" \/><\/a>Most politicians talk themselves poor in the course of an election campaign, but it needs a little more subtlety than Newt Gingrich appears to be able to muster.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mother Jones<\/em> (yup) <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/mojo\/2012\/01\/newt-gingrich-im-not-rich\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Gingrich was campaigning in Laconia on Wednesday, a fellow came up to the former House speaker and asked, &#8220;Won&#8217;t you buy a home in the Lakes Region if elected president?&#8221; This was a reference to Mitt Romney&#8217;s house in New Hampshire.<br \/>\nGingrich replied, &#8220;No, I can&#8217;t afford things like that. I&#8217;m not rich.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And his wife Callista quickly added, &#8220;We have one home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not rich? This past summer, Gingrich had to file the financial-disclosure form required of presidential candidates. It revealedthat he has a net worth of at least $6.7 million and that his income was at least $2.6 million in 2010. That&#8217;s about 65 times the income of the average family of four in the United States. That puts him well into the top 1 percent (about $520,000 a year or more) and close to the top 0.1 percent. He, of course, had that $500,000-plus tab at Tiffany&#8217;s, and weeks ago was boasting that he pulled in $60,000 a speech. These are the sort of actions that tend to be associated with richness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, he\u2019s no Pelosi, but even so\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most politicians talk themselves poor in the course of an election campaign, but it needs a little more subtlety than Newt Gingrich appears to be able to muster. Mother Jones (yup) reports: When Gingrich was campaigning in Laconia on Wednesday, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/foot-mouth-gingrich\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[740,633],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6799,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions\/6799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}