The September issue of Esquire features a profile of serial cheater Newt Gingrich in which his second wife, Marianne (pictured), is prominently figured.  Author John H. Richardson describes her as, “goofy and fun and almost completely unguarded, reeling off the stories and digressions with a wry sense of the human comedy that was very appealing.” 

Marianne was married to Gingrich for eighteen years; he met her while his first wife, Jackie (who was his high-school math teacher), was in the hospital recovering from cancer.  Despite all of his philandering, Gingrich apparently likes to keep himself disease-free, because according to The Week, Gingrich cheated on Marianne “a few months after she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.”  He eventually made the affair with Callista Bisek official – she’s now his third wife.

As Stephen Colbert said last night, “Newt is so pro-marriage he can’t stop doing it.”

Colbert then ran over to his Moral Compass 5000 Action Center (“Where Jesus goes to find out what he would do.”), revealing some fascinating statistics about American hypocrisy regarding family values.  According to the May 2010 Gallup poll on moral issues, only 6 percent of Americans find it morally acceptable to have an extramarital affair, but a 2007 MSNBC poll suggests that 22 percent of monogamous adults have cheated on their partner.  Or, as Colbert put it, “Do as I say, not who I do.” Continue reading »

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In 2007, Stan Murmur was an art teacher at  Monacan High School in Richmond, Virginia.  He was, by all accounts, a well-respected and dedicated teacher.  But a video on YouTube changed all that.  The clip showed Murmur, dressed only in a turban, Groucho glasses and a g-string, creating art with his butt.  He called this unusual method of painting  “anthropometric monotype,” but Chesterfield School Board members called it inappropriate and promptly fired him. Continue reading »

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Stephen Colbert is currently doing a U.S.O. tour. According to Gawker, the faux pundit “is making history by being the first person in the history of the U.S.O. to film, edit and broadcast a non-news show from an active war zone.” He’s also donating proceeds from iTunes sales of this week’s episodes to the U.S.O. Oh, and they shaved his head. (Video proof is below. Check it out. You know you want to.) Continue reading »

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