Occupy protesters crash Gingrich event

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Occupy Wall Street protesters crashed a Newt Gingrich speech in Iowa. When the protesters started up with their now-famous “mic check” routine, Gingrich — assuming that reasonable people were telling him to fix his microphone — asked “What’s wrong?”

Nothing was wrong with his microphone, but the protesters wanted him to tell him that he has a “callous and arrogant attitude towards poverty and poor people.”

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