STEVE BENEN SHOULD GET PAID

After all, he came up with the snark making fun of Romney's ability to speak French.  Unfortunately, Newt Gingrich is deadly serious:

Newt web ad: Romney and Kerry have 'French Connection'
By EMILY SCHULTHEIS |
1/12/12 7:09 PM EST

A new web ad from Newt Gingrich's campaign, "The French Connection," stresses the similarities between Mitt Romney and John Kerry, tying the two Massachusetts politicians together with the fact that both of them speak French.

"Just like John Kerry, he speaks French, too," the ad's narrator says of Romney, showing an often-circulated clip of Romney speaking about the 2002 Winter Olympics in French.