Michael Steele Defends Newt Gingrich:

In an interview with CNN’s Chief National Correspondent John King on John King, USA, Steele said he thinks Gingrich’s comment, made to the National Review on Saturday, was not based on the president’s race.

“I know probably some folks out there want to, but I don’t see that,” Steele said. “I know Newt. I know that’s not his mindset on that. He’s talking about a world view that comes from a different part, whether it’s Europe, the African continent.”

It wasn’t a race thing, the president’s just African, so it makes sense he’d think like one.