Newt Gingrich: Professor of History, Student of Porn?

It was an innocent mistake, says the spokesman for Newt Gingrich’s American Solutions think tank. An accident.

Whatever. All I know is that the naming of a porn executive as “Entrepreneur of the Year” by the former House Speaker’s organization has provided a few laughs around the Internet today and should be mentioned tonight during late-night talk-show monologues.

Here’s what happened, as reported by Talking Points Memo‘s Rachel Slajda:

Newt Gingrich’s 527 group sent a letter to porn exec Allison Vivas Wednesday telling her she’d won their “Entrepreneur of the Year” award and inviting her to an “intimate event” with Gingrich.

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