Tutor: Newt spends hours learning Spanish

Posted on: May 30th, 2007
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“Newt Gingrich’s suggestion that bilingual education can lead to “living in a ghetto” prompted outrage among many Latinos. But not Ricardo Gonzalez.

For eight months, Gonzalez has been teaching Spanish to the former House speaker and possible Republican presidential candidate. And he helped Gingrich tape the Spanish-language portion of his bilingual YouTube video apologizing for the comment — an apology that critics derided alternately as stilted, painful, funny and insincere.”

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