Intentional Deception Quotes
Newt Gingrich, then speaker of the House, for years had used campaign donation money which was supposed to be used for promoting Republican candidates and political positions, to do so by purchasing Gingrich’s books with which to educate and inform people. The speaker had written them for a course in politics and was paid a significant amount for each sale. So Gingrich used campaign donation money to implement programs which happened to enrich him personally. The House had a rule limiting the amount of money that any Congressperson could earn beyond their salaries and Gingrich had gone way over that amount as a result of his book sales. After denying anything was amiss, he finally admitted to a technical violation of the House rules, but argued that he had broken no laws and should retain his Speakership. He was forced to resign, but later tried an unsuccessful run for the Republican Presidential nomination.
There is a great irony to this quotation. Here we have a communist propaganda agent using the extreme excesses of an American Anti-Communist fanatic to the Communist advantage by associating them with McCarthyism. It supports the view of many political scientists and historians that McCarthyism was in the long run more beneficial to the Communists than not.
