We hire only the best and brightest to handle our airport security.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House-turned-Fox News talking head, was heading for the Delta shuttle at Reagan National last week when a guy from the Transportation Security Administration gave his boarding pass and picture ID the once-over.

"Are you Cheney?" the screener asked, according to our witness.

"No," responded a surprised -- and stone-faced -- Gingrich. "I'm the other guy. But Cheney will be very disappointed when he hears that you asked that question."

True, the veep rarely flies commercial, but you can't be too careful. "Perhaps the screener thought the vice president was traveling under the assumed name of Newt Gingrich," joked fellow traveler and witness A. Mark Neuman, who, like Gingrich, was en route to the GOP convention.

"Of course, when he got to the convention, it was like being around a rock star," Neuman added. Gingrich sat in Cheney's family box during President Bush's Thursday night speech -- but nobody mixed him up there.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3790-2004Sep7.html

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. The resurrection of Gingrich

chimp is lining him up to be a cabinet guy or something?

"We found 8 chemical weapons labs in Iraq, hidden by Saddam's secret police" - the new newt, no proof, never mentioned by anybody else, he just says it....

[jeff30997]

2. I would prefer The passion of Gingrich.

:evilgrin: