01.04.12
That nasty stuff top-ranked in Google, winner
UPDATED
Some fop at the Atlantic, partnered with the National Journal, entitled a representative piece on the spectacle of Iowa Republicans: 11 things you might not know about Santorum.
No link.
Google the man’s name and you get a headache of varying proportion, thereby defining the reality of “low information voters.”
However, the press exacerbates, creating a fantasy, inventing article after article, all sort of portraying Rick Santorum as something he is not: a decent thinking human being.
This in contrast to what he is: A mild-looking psychopath theocrat with a beamish smile.
The only way to describe this media malpractice is by paraphrasing something I posted as a one-liner at Pine View Farm earlier today.
Media handling of Rick Santorum is like someone looking at the little boy next door who tortures the pet cat once or twice a week and, instead of being moved to strike him down, idly says they think he’d make a good vet when he grows up.
If you met the person at the Atlantic, Molly Ball is the name — some staffer used for SEO whoring, who wrote such a 90 second thing, you’d punch her (and the magazine’s editor) into a double concussion — as a public service — for practicing cynical nihilism and off-the-cuff inhumanity in grasping for web eyeballs.
No one not a dipshit/moron, frankly evil or insane could cast a vote for a person like Rick Santorum. He is an example of the worst old white paranoid and ignorant America can produce. There is nothing in his biography to be proud of other than the tale of a mediocre student aligned with the religious right, educated at big yawningly mediocre schools for the sub average and athletically favored muscle-bound — Penn State and Pitt. Who started his career as a flunky/low rent fixer for the steroidal fakes in second-tier professional wresting.
Rick Santorum is an insult to people his age, like me. His success is a symptom of why this country is experiencing epic fail. In the class room at university, or on any wrestling mat in Pennsylvania in the Eighties, I would have stomped his face and dislocated his shoulder in less than 60 seconds. From science to mathematics to any subject in liberal arts, I buried him, like tens of thousands of Americans who would have never thought to conflate theocracy and corporate monarchy with democracy. So would have readers of this blog.
Rick Santorum doesn’t believe in science. He despises sex unless it’s his crabbed vision of it. He hates the idea of women’s reproductive rights in modern America. He wants war with Iran and believes in various right wing GOP conspiracy theories. He uses his religion to damn everyone not like him. And he’s a toady for the 1 percent in corporate America. This only scratches the surface.
That Rick Santorum gets any votes is a measure of pathology, proof there’s an incurable necrotic tumor in the demographic that, even if elimination doesn’t cure the patient, still must be disintegrated by beams of ionizing radiation. Because it’s the right thing to do, from a scientific standpoint as well as a humanitarian one.
Floormaster Squeeze said,
January 5, 2012 at 7:22 am
One aspect of Santorum that shocked me is that he is favor a huge strike fund to help workers (but in Iran!):
“Iran is under a lot of economic stress right now. You need to provide a strike fund so these workers can go on strike and create turmoil that is needed for a revolution to be successful.???
(from a Newport, NH campaign event that included two handfuls of people– http://www.vnews.com/11282011/8189174.htm )
The irony appears to be completely missed by his audience of 12 including the reporter that night.
George Smith said,
January 5, 2012 at 8:56 am
Yeah, it’s astonishing how his mind works.