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Newt Gingrich insists he's not angry.

He's disappointed, certainly, in the lack of substance and civility in America's political discourse. Indignant at the overweening influence of the media elite, Wall Street, and the Washington establishment, all determined to protect their power and privilege. Surprised that Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney, their chosen vessel, would distort and dissemble so readily"”spending tens of millions of dollars to slime Gingrich on television"”in the service of his vast ambition. But not angry.