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Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign Committee

"Selling Access" +
  1:51 web video from Dec. 12, 2011.

[Music, SFX] Female Voice: Newt Gingrich was a career politician selling access here in Washington DC.

Male Voice: The year that he ran for Congress in 1978 he made a grand total of $10,000.  By the time he became the Speaker he made $675,000.  By the time he left Congress he has brought his net worth up to about $7.5 million dollars.

Female Voice: Eighty-four ethics complaints while he was Speaker, driven out of the speakership in disgrace.

Man 1: Having to pay $300,000 for lying, for complete fraud.

Gingrich: And I have lots of things to do...maybe earn a little bit of money.

Male Voice: Newt Gingrich is also the latest example of how the corrupt revolving door drives Washington.

Man 2: He made a hundred million dollars playing the revolving door game.

Man 3: A big part of that is just lobbying money.  Congress is really bought and sold.  They're bought and sold legally.

Gingrich: If you've been Speaker of the House, you're always an insider.

Man 4: Gingrich received up to $1.8 million from Freddie Mac just before it collapsed.  His think tanks got 37 million bucks from the health care industry.

Male Voice: Newt Gingrich renewed his support for an individual mandate, a key tenet of President Obama's health care law. 

Male Voice: Newt Gingrich has been on both sides of a long list of issues.

Male Voice: He went the other way when he got paid to go the other way.

Female Voice: Do you think voters are going to warm up to you because you're boasting about getting $60,000 a speech.

Gingrich: I was charging $60,000 a speech.  Normally celebrities leave and they gradually sell fewer speeches every year.  We were selling more.

Female Voice: He is the absolute symbol of that corrupt system.

Male Voice: Newt Gingrich.  This guy hasn't got skeletons in his closet; he's got a whole graveyard in there.

Male Voice: It's about serial hypocrisy.


Notes: A fierce attack on Gingrich done in a tech style theme.