Newt Gingrich: The Myth, The Man, The BS

Today's Washington Post addresses five myths about the disgraced former Speaker of the House. You remember him: he was the guy who spearheaded the "impeach Clinton" movement for fibbing about the former president's extra curricular marital activities while Nuke'm Getrich was busy doing a staffer while his wife was battling cancer. (And you thought John Edwards held the patent on that category of scumminess.)

My favorite is the first listed: "Gingrich is an academic." It's true that he was once employed as a faculty member at a small Georgian college. But he never produced any academic research. And "conservative political scientist James Q. Wilson … assessed materials for a televised history course Gingrich was teaching as a 'mishmash of undefined terms … misleading claims … and unclear distinctions.'" Sounds like a typical Gingrich speech.