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Related: About this forumNewt Gingrich: Spanish is Ghetto Language (Young Turks Video)
I hope this clarifies the post that was blocked earlier. It relates to Spanish being considered as "ghetto" by Newt.
My apologies to those I offended earlier. i guess the news have not exploted yet.
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Newt Gingrich: Spanish is Ghetto Language (Young Turks Video) (Original Post)
Lost-in-FL
Jan 2012
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denem
(11,045 posts)1. Newt actually speaks fluent Spanish.
Go figure. It was a better choice than French.
Lost-in-FL
(7,093 posts)5. Interesting. I though he was fluent only on "hate speech". nt
Ruby the Liberal
(26,217 posts)2. Maybe you should have said that.
This is news to me.
Lost-in-FL
(7,093 posts)4. I assumed wrong.
I would think it would be all over the news. Heard of it last night at the Lawrence O'donnell (I think). I assumed it was common knowledge.
niyad
(112,449 posts)3. really? the language of cervantes, allende, rivera, borges, marquez, ferdinand and isabella a
"ghetto" language??? newtie, you ignorant creep, every time I think (pray, actually) that you can sink no lower, you prove me wrong.
Lost-in-FL
(7,093 posts)6. And Franco.
Maybe Newt does not know who Franco is yet. Hopefuly it stays that way, you never know, Newt would pick up on it.