CROOKS AND LIARS: Two bloggers from Gay U.S.A. attended a rally for Rick Santorum in Tacoma on Monday evening to see what the GOP presidential contender had to say about the same-sex marriage bill signed into law by Washington state’s governor earlier in the day. Three protesters were arrested at the event, including the two bloggers, and another protester who was arrested later in the evening for glitter-bombing Santorum. Other reports tie the protesters to the Occupy Tacoma group. Here is a snippet of their account of the evening: . About four police officers approached the group. Nathan left the […]
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Santorums Were ‘Pillars Of The Communist Party’?
[Artowrk by CATGIRLKARI] DAILY BEAST: The elder Santorum matriarch doesn’t understand why he has diverged so far from the family’s longtime political stance. “In Riva del Garda his grandfather Pietro and uncles were ‘red communists’ to the core,” writes Oggi journalist Giuseppe Fumagalli, likening the family to “Peppone” after a famous fictional Italian communist mayor who fought against an ultraconservative priest known as Don Cammillo and about which a popular television series is based. “But on the other side of the ocean, it’s like his family here doesn’t exist. Instead he draws crowds as the head of the ultraconservative faction […]
WORTH REPEATING: Why Santorum Still Sucks
[Artowrk by DONKEY HOTEY] THINK PROGRESS: Rick Santorum reiterated his belief that states should have the right to outlaw contraception during an interview with ABC News yesterday, saying, “The state has a right to do that, I have never questioned that the state has a right to do that. It is not a constitutional right, the state has the right to pass whatever statues they have.” Santorum has long opposed the Supreme Court’s 1965 ruling “that invalidated a Connecticut law banning contraception” and has also pledged to completely defund federal funding for contraception if elected president. As he told CaffeinatedThoughts.com […]
WHERE IS MY MIND: Rick Perry’s End Time
RELATED: Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the onetime Republican front-runner who had hoped to regain traction in a candidates’ debate Wednesday, instead suffered what may have been the worst memory meltdown in the history of presidential debates. “I will tell you, it is three agencies of government when I get there that are gone: Commerce, Education, and — what’s the third one there? Let’s see,” Perry said, struggling to remember the third federal department he repeatedly has promised on the stump to eliminate. Texas Rep. Ron Paul suggested the Environmental Protection Agency as an option. Pressed by moderator John Harwood to […]
SANTORUM: Where Did Our Love Go?
[Illustration by ZINA SAUNDERS] AMERICAN SPECTATOR: Perhaps 50 voters showed up Saturday for a campaign event held in a barn on a dirt road amid cornfields near Roland, about 20 miles north of Ames. While a few dozen voters isn’t much of a crowd by Republican presidential campaign standards, the audience inside the barn was enlarged — and enlivened — by the presence of scores of children, the offspring of several Christian homeschooling families in attendance. One family brought eight kids, another brought nine, and the hosts, Scott and Susan Hurd, have seven of their own, as did the guest […]
Santorum Gives Up Right Wing Welfare; Will Stop Sucking The Teat Of Big Government To Run For Prez
PHILLY DEALS: Santorum is saying good-bye to a post that paid him $168,000 in cash and stock last year for attending board and compensation committee meetings, where his duties included approving a $10 million CEO cash, stock and insurance compensation package for Universal boss Alan B. Miller. Universal relied on taxpayer-funded Medicare and Medicaid payments for 38% of its $5.6 billion in revenues last year, according to the company’s annual report. The company collected profits totalling $230 million. MORE RELATED: The federal government exists to protect life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, Santorum says, “not to take care of […]
Q&A: Author & Ex-Inquirer Maverick Ralph Cipriano
BY ADAM BONANNI Jim Beasley looks damn proud on the cover of his book, standing with John Wayne-like swagger atop his desk in his richly-appointed, oak-lined office suite. He has reason to be. Beasley and former Inquirer reporter Ralph Cipriano [pictured, below left] have gathered their favorite cases of Beasley’s long, impressive career as a crusading plaintiff’s attorney between the covers of Courtroom Cowboy. Beasley comes across as a hard-nosed, steadfast litigator who exudes charisma and never did believe in the phrase “backing down.” If you don’t back down in court from Don King, Ira Einhorn, Osama Bin Laden, or […]
THE TROUBLE WITH SANTORUM: Not So Much A Column But A Pat On The Back — His Own Back
You know, when you’re a politician, you can throw around this kind of self-serving hyperbole and nobody will call you on it because, frankly, everyone expects you to lie. But when you start writing a column for the newspaper, you can’t just pull shit out of your ass and state it as fact. From paragraph two of Rick Santorum’s Elephant In The Room column in the Inquirer: Along with churches and families, government has played a role in, at first, nurturing – and, more recently, weakening – this social compact. One of my greatest frustrations as a Republican leader was […]
BREAKING: Santorum Gets Inquirer Column!
EDITOR & PUBLISHER: A press conference will be held at 1:30 this afternoon at the Philadelphia Inquirer to announce that it has added former Sen. Rick Santorum to its stable of columnists. Also hired is George Curry, the former editor of Emerge magazine. They will alternate the weekly spot. The two will attend the announcement with Brian P. Tierney, publisher, and Harold Jackson, editorial page editor. Just today, Santorum is featured (and pictured) in an Inky news article on page A3 headlined, “Santorum presses his case against Islamic extremism: ‘There’s a denial of this problem,’ says the ex-senator.” Santorum, a […]
Santorum Finally Gets A Goddamned Job
FishbowlDC has learned that former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum (R-Penn.) has signed on to be a contributor to Fox News Channel. And now, a word about the choice of artwork to illustrate this breaking news story: we fully realize that depicting the ex-senator as Adolph Hitler is a tad inflammatory and, in some quarters, will be seen as “a bit much” or even a hair “over the top,” possibly even “offensive.” A little “too Michael Moore,” even. Too bad. Fact is, when we went through our photo archives looking for a sympathetic picture of Rick, well, let’s just say the […]
STATING THE OBVIOUS: Santorum NOT To Run For Prez, Says Wife Would Kick His Fuckin Ass, In So Many Words
Santorum: No oval office run Some backers sought an ’08 campaign, but he said: “Absolutely, positively not.” By Carrie Budoff Inquirer Staff Writer Don’t expect to see Sen. Rick Santorum’s name on the 2008 presidential ballot. “Absolutely, positively not. Absolutely not,” Santorum said yesterday on The Michael Smerconish Show on WPHT-AM (1210). “My wife would throw me out of the house if I do anything in ’08.” Even though he lost his Senate seat last week by 18 points to Democrat Bob Casey Jr., some supporters hoped he would still fill the social conservative niche on the Republican ticket. William […]
Media Matters To NY Times’ David Brooks: What Part of SANTORUM SUCKS COCK IN HELL Don’t You Understand?
Now that we have your attention, what Media Matters actually said was: NY Times‘ Brooks lauded Santorum’s anti-poverty work, ignored his charity-related controversies: Summary: In a recent column, David Brooks wrote that if Sen. Rick Santorum loses his Pennsylvania Senate seat, it’s “probably good news in Pennsylvania’s bobo suburbs” but “certainly bad for poor people around the world.” Brooks, however, did not mention the controversy surrounding Santorum’s own charity, or his attacks on prominent international humanitarian groups. Media Matters: Making Media Matter Since A Coupla Years Ago Attytood: Bono Is Wrong-O, Seriously Santorum Sucks You-Know-What In H-E-Double-Toothpick
Deep Thoughts: About New Beck, Old Wars, John Prine And How To Give A Dirty Santorum
As a boy I wanted to be Sherlock Holmes when I grew up, but now I’m thinking I wanna be Nigel Godrich. Seriously, the “it” boy producer’s life is most people’s idea of a rock ’n’ roll fantasy camp. Just take a look at his day planner for the last couple of years. Monday: Give Paul McCartney edge. Tuesday: Dial back Thom Yorke’s edge. Wednesday: Make Beck a man. Ironically, it’s the latter who suffers the greatest cred deficit these days. Some say Beck jumped the shark back at Midnite Vultures. Others lost faith when they found out he was a […]