Newt Gingrich: Born in Kenya?

The Kenyan birth certificate pictured below comes from an admitted forger, and there is strong evidence that it is a forgery. But August has been a slow month for the media. So this still rates a story.

Moreover, there are three reasons to believe the document is real, or, at the very least, smoke indicative of fire:

1. Newt Gingrich previously was believed to have been born Newton Leroy McPherson, on June 17, 1943, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to 19-old Newton Searles McPherson and 16-old Kathleen Daugherty (her subsequent marriage brought the name Gingrich), both of whom were believed to have been born in the United States. Some question this. I was unable to find their American birth certificates.

2. A newt is a salamander commonly found in or near freshwater in Africa. Coincidence? As Emma Bull said, "Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys."

3. Gingrich received a Ph.D. in Modern European History from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1971. His dissertation topic: Africa. Yet another coincidence? Some say, "Not."

 

 

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Comments

[oldgeek1]

Newt is more familiar with marriage certificates that I suspect he would have like to claim were frauds

[emailers2]

http://washingtonindependent.com/53654/forged-kenyan-document-splinters-birther-movement

Oh my! The Obama birthers are splitting up!!!! Why? Orly's latest birth certificate from Kenya is a fake. I doubt that this will be the last we here of it.

Newt, is just an early example of stem cell research gone bad. Don't you know, that is why the research was banned for so many years.

[larry278]

Mr Gingrich wasn't born or hatched. He was force issued at a GSA Depot that was closed in Jan, 1946. No one knows where he was fabricated or when he was fabricated. Some claim thet Mr Gingrich was a product of the Kingdom of Thailand. Mr Gingrich was placed on a ship destined for the Empire of Japan. The ship called at the port of Hong Kong. Though he was young, Mr Gingrich jumped ship in Hong Kong. Mr Gingrich was captured as the booty of war by persons unknown, traded for 2 cartons of Lucky Strikes. Somehow, Mr Gingrich was sent to the USA in Nov, 1945.

[huffingt]

NEWT born in Kenya, hatched in Russy's backyard

[NY Grandma]

I think this calls for an investigation.

[jsgaetano]

NEWT-

WHERES THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE?!?!?

Why isn't he releasing it? What's he trying to hide?

[JustinAddison]

Until he proves otherwise we're just going to have to assume it's the real thing. America for Americans!

[Ilene2theRight]

Sounds like he'll be very qualified to select ambassadors to Africa when he becomes president.

[jotunloki]

Yeah, that'll happen.

[lucyring]

Also, Atlanta (Gingrich represented Georgia's sixth congressional district, including parts of Atlanta) has the fourth largest number of Africa immigrants in the U.S!

(http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCR/is_3_42/ai_n28008967/)

[FoonTheElder]

Actually Newt was born in Oompa Loompa Land with all of his fellow fantasyland neo-cons.

[bronceye]

Will this be on fox? Oh well, someone needs to take it to a town hall"protest" to show the teabaggers. I luv it!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lucyring]

Only if they do a piece on reckless accusations by the liberal media. Or if the Kenyan association polls in Newt's favor?

[GreatNews27]

I believe newts are hatched, not born. So where was the egg laid? That is the question.

[23000Days]

What if the egg was laid in Kenya then spirited to the US for hatching?

[MNKen]

Eggs are not mentioned in the constitution...such a quandry.