Newt Gingrich
SERIAL ADULTERER
SEX ADDICT
Newt Gingrich is certainly not the only Republican who has cheated on more wives than Bill Clinton, but he has to be at the top of the list. Newt's brazen serial adultery and pathetic sexual addiction are almost beyond belief. Here's the full story in chronological order, perhaps for the first time.
Newt's callousness is legendary. Like telling his first wife that he was dumping her as she lay in a hospital bed recovering from cancer surgery. It is also absolutely true. But it is only one example of Gingrich's self-centered arrogance and his rampant sexual addiction. There is a long string of stories about how he has used women over the years.
As you read this keep in mind that this guy has a pass to the Bush White House. He is the man neo-colonialists who control America's foreign policy want for our next secretary of state after they get rid of Colin Powell.
THE NEWT GINGRICH SEX STORY
Noted author Gail Sheehy conducted lengthy interviews with Gingrich and many of his acquaintances from the early days of his career, well before he became a Congressman. Many of those friends worked in Newt's early campaigns until, disgusted with his sexual antics, they left him. From Gail Sheehy's The Inner Quest of Newt Gingrich, originally published in Vanity Fair magazine and published again by FRONTLINE Online, we found the following:
Prior to 1974 - Antics with wives of fellow faculty members
Kip Carter was a fellow faculty member at West Georgia College where Newt and his first wife Jackie Gingrich met and married. Kip was a volunteer in Newt's first two Congressional campaigns. "Kip Carter, who lived a few doors down from the couple, saw more than he wanted to. 'We had been out working a football game --- I think it was the Bowdon game --- and we would split up. It was a Friday night. I had Newt's daughters, Jackie Sue and Kathy, with me. We were all supposed to meet back at this professor's house. It was a milk-and-cookies kind of shakedown thing, buck up the troops. I was cutting across the yard to go up the driveway. There was a car there. As I got to the car, I saw Newt in the passenger seat and one of the guys' wives with her head in his lap going up and down. Newt kind of turned and gave me his little-boy smile. Fortunately, Jackie Sue and Kathy were a lot younger and shorter then.'"
1974 - Newt has at it with a young woman in his first Congressional campaign
". . . Newt showed a propensity for the kind of behavior boys boast about in the locker room. Throughout his first campaign he was having an affair with a young volunteer. Dot Crews, who occasionally drove the candidate, says that almost everybody involved in the campaign knew. Kip Carter claims, 'We'd have won in 1974 if we could have kept him out of the office, screwing her on the desk.'
At about this time, "The Gingrichs entered marriage counseling, but Newt continued to behave as if other people's rules didn't apply to him. Dot Crews observes, 'It was common knowledge that Newt was involved with other women during his marriage to Jackie. Maybe not on the level of John Kennedy. But he had girlfriends --- some serious, some trivial.'"
1976 - Newt beds another woman married to a West Georgia College professor
"One of those women, Anne Manning, became romantically involved with Gingrich during his '76 campaign. The curly-haired young Englishwoman, then married to another professor at West Georgia . . .was an avid volunteer in Newt's Carrollton office. 'I did have a relationship with him,' she discloses for the first time, 'but when it suited him, he would totally blow you off.'
In the spring of 1977, she was in Washington to attend a census-bureau workshop when Gingrich took her to dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant. He met her back at her modest hotel room. 'We had oral sex,' she says. 'He prefers that modus operandi because then he can say, 'I never slept with her.' Indeed, before Gingrich left that evening, she says, he threatened her: 'If you ever tell anybody about this, I'll say you're lying.'"
1980 - Newt dumps his first wife while she is in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery
Jackie Gingrich told Gail Sheehy, "He walked out in the Spring of 1980. . . By September, I went into the hospital for my third surgery. The two girls came to see me, and said, "Daddy is downstairs. Could he come up?" When he got there, he wanted to discuss the terms of the divorce while I was recovering from my surgery."
Newt also told Sheehy, "She isn't young enough or pretty enough to be the President's wife." The hospital visit wasn't the end of it, either. Jackie had to take Newt to court to get him to support her and the girls. It was so bad that the utilities were about to be cut off.
Early 1981 - Newt marries second wife Marianne Ginther
After dumping Jackie, Newt made it official with second wife Marianne Ginther. But by mid 1989, his second marriage wasn't doing that well either. Newt and Marianne had separated. "Frankly", she told the Washington Post in June 1989, "it's been on and off for some time."
Marianne told Gail Sheehy she didn't want Newt to run for President. "I told him if I'm not in agreement, fine, it's easy. I just go on the air the next day, and I undermine everything. I don't want him to be president and I don't think he should be."
1993 - Newt takes up with a young Congressional aide half his age
In 1994, several newspapers had reported that Newt Gingrich was dating and living with Callista Bisek, a "willowy blond Congressional aide 23 years his junior. Biske, then 33, had been spending nights at Gingrich's apartment near the Capitol and had her own key.
Reporters and other Washington insiders had known about "Newtie and his Cutie" since 1994, even before Gingrich became Speaker of the House, but they did not have solid proof. In 1995, Vanity Fair magazine described Bisek as Gingrich's "frequent breakfast companion." Gingrich was married to Marianne during all of that time.
According to MSNBC, Bisek sang in the National Shrine Choir and Newt would often wait for her at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, listening to her sing while he read the Bible.
In a column on salon.com in August 1999, Amy Reiter reported that, "While most press outlets have reported that Newtie and his cutie have been consorting for at least three years, whispers that the Gingster might have horned in on brassy Bisek more like five years ago have wafted (our) way. Big deal? Well, it might be. If it turns out that the two were indeed nuzzling noses before the hard-blowing, nimble-fingered young lady was installed in her cushy $55,000 congressional aide job (sniff if you like, that's biggish bucks for a lowish-level government worker without a whole lot of prior Hill experience). Such timing would raise the same sort of ethical questions Clinton faced when it appeared his good buddy Vernon Jordan may have pulled some high-placed strings at Revlon on behalf of a certain unthankful thongstress."(Monica Lewinsky)
Reiter also suggested that Gingrich resigned as Speaker when Dick Armey and Tom DeLay threatened to expose Newt's dalliances in a coup to depose him.
If you have ever wondered why, amid all his attack politics, he spoke out so little about Bill Clinton's trysts in the Oval Office, now you know.
For an excellent insight into the life and mind of Newt Gingrich, read "The Inner Quest of Newt Gingrich" at FRONTLINEonline at pbs.org. And for your own amusement, go to any search engine and search on "Newt Gingrich and oral sex".
