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Strauss-Kahn Lightens Gingrich’s Baggage

Calvin Trillin

May 18, 2011

Yes, Gingrich, our yard-sale Don Juan, Perked up at the news of Strauss-Kahn: Compared with a rape charge, some feel, Philandering’s not a big deal: Affairs, for which Newt has repented, Involved only those who’d consented. But still his campaign’s going south: His foot still gets stuck in his mouth.  

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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