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Newt Gingrich Discovers The Majestic Large Hairy Armadillo

Hunter Walker — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:38:53 -0400

Newt Gingrich holding a baby tiger in 1995. (Photo: Getty)

Former Speaker of the House, Republican presidential candidate and noted zoo enthusiast Newt Gingrich is traveling in Italy and he took some time today to visit the Bioparco in Rome. Mr. Gingrich tweeted a few observations about the zoo's large hairy armadillos.

Bioparco was built in 1911 and is billed as "one of Europe’s oldest zoological gardens." The Bioparco's collections include Pygmy Hippopotami, Asiatic Lions and Siberian Tigers. Based on his Tweets, Mr. Gingrich appears to have particularly enjoyed the exhibits with European Bison and the Large Hairy Armadillo:

The rome zoo's large hairy armadillos (their name, honest) are very active today -natives of argentina
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Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) July 03, 2012

European bison was down to 54 animals in zoos none in wild after world war one. Conservation efforts have 1800 in wild and 1400 in zoos
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Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) July 03, 2012

Rome has nice european bison exhibit and nice Italian biodiversity building
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Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) July 03, 2012

Mr. Gingrich's wife, Callista, has also been tweeting updates from their European trip.

Last week, Mr. Gingrich was in Paris where he spoke to the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a group of Iranian exiles headed by Maryam Rajavi. In addition to her work with NCRI, Ms. Rajavi is also the head of Mujahadeen-e-Khalq or MEK, a leftist group dedicated to overthrowing the Iranian regime that is officially designated as a terrorist group by the United States.

The 15 Weirdest Facebook Photos Of Newt And Callista Gingrich

Hunter Walker — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:57:55 -0400

Newt Gingrich has made his mark on this presidential race with his "big ideas" and his desire to have three hour marathon debate with anyone who will take him on. With his victory in this week's Georgia primary and polls showing him leading in Alabama and Mississippi, Mr. Gingrich is preparing to make a "last stand" in the race for the Republican nomination although he's well behind Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum in the delegate count. Since it's probably Mr. Gingrich's last hurrah and, well, since it's Friday afternoon, we decided it would be a good time to release a treasure trove of odd Gingrich family photos we found deep in the recesses of Facebook that give a very special, behind-the-scenes look at the candidate and his third wife, Callista. Check out our slideshow to see Newt as you've never seen him before; having his makeup done, hanging out at Auschwitz, going on safari, hobnobbing with classic rock stars, eating egg-on-a-stick and communing with our founding fathers.

Newt Gingrich's Mother-in-Law Is Afraid Of Occupy Protesters

Hunter Walker — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:38:07 -0400

Newt Gingrich's mother-in-law, Bernita Krause Bisek. (Photo: Facebook)

Earlier this afternoon, Callista Gingrich, wife of newly minted Republican frontrunner Newt Gingrich, pointed a camera at the window of her office in Washington, D.C. and snapped a picture of a group of Occupy Wall Street protesters gathered on the rainy street outside. Ms. Gingrich proceeded to post the picture on her Facebook page inspiring concerned comments from her mother.

Ms. Gingrich included no comment on the pictures beyond a bland caption that said, "Occupy protesters outside of our office building." About an hour later, her mother, Bernita Krause Bisek, responded to the photo.

"A little scary isn't it. Hope the police have them under control," Ms. Bisek wrote.

Ms. Bisek also "liked" another comment on the photo written by a man named Robert Fimreite.

"Hang in there Callista. Not sure what they hope to accomplish by hanging around your office building. Newt can't do anything... yet!" Mr. Fimreite wrote.

Ms. Gingrich's Occupy photo also provoked some more colorful comments from several of her 2,138 friends.

"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes. Or maybe that should be revised to the 'red' glassiness of their eyes. LOL," wrote a man named Lavon Wiggins.

"Who let the Dogs out, woof,woof,woof woof! LOL....," a man named Mark Usciak wrote.

Mr. Gingrich hasn't been shy about his distaste for the Occupy Wall Street movement. At the Thanksgiving Family Forum last month, Mr. Gingrich described the Occupy protesters as inconsiderate, entitled and downright unclean.

"“All of the Occupy movements start with the premise that we all owe them everything. They take over a public park they didn’t pay for, to go nearby to use bathrooms they didn’t pay for, to beg for food from places they don’t want to pay for, to obstruct those who are going to work to pay the taxes to sustain the bathrooms and to sustain the park, so that they can self righteously explain that they are the paragons of virtue to which we owe everything,” Mr. Gingrich said. “Now, that is a pretty good symptom of how much the left has collapsed as a moral system in this country and why you need to reassert something as simple as saying to them, ‘Go get a job right after you take a bath.’”