Politico says Newt Gingrich was asked today if he was concerned about polls that find people continue to think President Obama is a Muslim.
Said Gingrich: “Why does the president behave the way that people would think that? You have to ask why would they believe that? It’s not because they’re stupid. It’s because they watch the kind of things I just described to you.”
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