Wednesday, February 08, 2012
"What Really Happened to the Gingrich Ethics Case?"
Regardless of what you think of a candidate, you probably prefer to know the truth about them, rather than believe the political and biased media reports...
At Townhall.com, Byron York investigated the past ethics charges against Newt Gingrich and posted what he found:
"The Gingrich case was extraordinarily complex, intensely partisan, and driven in no small way by a personal vendetta on the part of one of Gingrich's former political opp onents. It received saturation coverage in the press; a database search of major media outlets revealed more than 10,000 references to Gingrich's ethics problems during the six months leading to his reprimand. It ended with a special counsel hired by the House Ethics Committee holding Gingrich to an astonishingly strict standard of behavior, after which Gingrich in essence pled guilty to two minor offenses. Afterward, the case was referred to the Internal Revenue Service, which conducted an exhaustive investigation into the matter -- and then, three years later, completely exonerated Gingrich.
It's that last part of the story you don't hear about much."
