H-Meter Pegged!

(Todd and I had a psychic mind meld, so to add to what he said...)

Gingrich had affair during Clinton probe:

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich acknowledged he was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he acknowledged in an interview with a conservative Christian group.

"The honest answer is yes," Gingrich, a potential 2008 Republican presidential candidate, said in an interview with Focus on the Family founder James Dobson to be aired Friday, according to a transcript provided to The Associated Press. "There are times that I have fallen short of my own standards. There's certainly times when I've fallen short of God's standards."

Gingrich argued in the interview, however, that he should not be viewed as a hypocrite for pursuing Clinton's infidelity.

"The president of the United States got in trouble for committing a felony in front of a sitting federal judge," the former Georgia congressman said of Clinton's 1998 House impeachment on perjury and obstruction of justice charges. "I drew a line in my mind that said, 'Even though I run the risk of being deeply embarrassed, and even though at a purely personal level I am not rendering judgment on another human being, as a leader of the government trying to uphold the rule of law, I have no choice except to move forward and say that you cannot accept ... perjury in your highest officials."

He's a hero, you see. He went after Clinton even at the risk of deep personal embarrassment to himself, people!

Never mind that Clinton never would have been put in the position to perjure himself if Gingrich hadn't led the charge in pursuit of Clinton's infidelity in the first place. I'm not excusing Clinton lying under oath—I'm still pissed about that—but for Gingrich to pretend that he's not a hypocrite because it was about Clinton lying under oath, when he would never have been under oath talking about an affair if it weren't for Gingrich and his hypocritical moralizing, is just insane! I mean—Oh. Mah. Gawd.

Go read Steve and Pam, who have more than just maniacal shrieking to offer in response to this story, which is obviously more than I can say.