Newt Gingrich continued to raise brows during the GOP presidential debate in South Carolina on Monday.

This time he made the statements after debate moderator Juan Williams asked him whether he saw it as "insulting" when he called President Obama "the food stamp president" or suggested that young children become janitors. "No," Gingrich answered.

Mediaite reports the following:

Williams listed several of Gingrich's comments first about inner-city children and the lack of work role models they have in their lives, and his idea to give them jobs at young ages to teach them responsibility. “Can’t you see this is viewed at a minimum insulting to all Americans, but as particularly to African Americans?” “No, I don’t see that,” Gingrich replied, giving an anecdote of his daughter doing janitorial work as her first job, and another individual who worked in the donut industry. “Only the elites despise earning money,” he responded with a flourish.

Watch footage from the debate here:

Gingrich is paddling upstream in an effort to win the nomination and at this point is likely to say anything to garner conservative votes. But what's sad is that this venomous rhetoric is likely spewed from the heart.

Read more at Mediaite.

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