White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says he doesn’t have the slightest idea what Newt Gingrich is talking about.

Gibbs’ comments come a day after the former House Speaker told the National Review that President Obama follows a “Kenyan, anti-colonial” worldview that in turn supports his policy positions on a range of issues.

“I don’t even have – quite frankly – the slightest idea what he’s talking about,” an amused Gibbs told ABC News Monday morning. “I think Newt Gingrich knows that he’s trying to appeal to the fringe of people that don’t believe the president was born in this country.”

“You would normally expect better from somebody who held the position of speaker of the House,” Gibbs added. “But, look, it’s political season. And most people’ll say anything. And Newt Gingrich does that … on a regular basis.”

In his comments to the National Review – published on the conservative publication’s Web site over the weekend – Gingrich also said Obama had conned his way into the Oval Office by painting himself as a mainstream American.

“This is a person who is fundamentally out of touch with how the world works, who happened to have played a wonderful con, as a result of which he is now president,” he said, adding later “I think he worked very hard at being a person who is normal, reasonable, moderate, bipartisan, transparent, accommodating – none of which was true. In the Alinksy tradition, he was being the person he needed to be in order to achieve the position he needed to achieve . . . He was authentically dishonest.”

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