Newt Gingrich was yet another in the line of phony Middle East experts trotted out by Sean Hannity under cover of discussing the situation in the Middle East – who just happens to spend more time attacking the Obama administration than talking about anything else. But Gingrich reached a new low when he offered up a pop-psychology analysis of Obama, saying he has “almost a psychological need to be totally blind to the realities of Islamic extremism.”

“Dr.” Gingrich said:

President Obama has almost a psychological need to be totally blind to the realities of Islamic extremism. It is astonishing to me how consistently he rejects all information which would teach him that there are people out there who actually want to kill us.

…It is so beyond any reasonable way to explain it, that it’s almost as though he has a desperate need to believe in something which is totally false.

Well, if Sarah Palin can be a Middle East expert on Fox News and Pat Caddell can be a Democrat, then why not Gingrich as a shrink?