Posts Tagged ‘Rick Santorum’
Portrait of Rick Santorum made entirely from gay pr0n
Misogynist of the week – Santorum’s moneyman, Foster Friess!
This whole contraception debate is just so new-fangled, says billionaire investor and mega-funder to the super PAC supporting former Senator Rick Santorum for President, Foster Friess.
In a simpler time, there were other ways to deal with female sexual desire. “Back in my day, they used Bayer Aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn’t that costly,” he said Thursday on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, setting the host back for moment.
The general conversation was about Santorum’s past statements about contraception, who…said that it was “harmful to women.”
The full exchange:
Mitchell: Do you have any concerns about some of his comments on social issues, contraception, about women in combat, and whether that would hurt his general election campaign would he be the nominee?
Friess: I get such a chuckle when these things come out. Here we have millions of our fellow Americans unemployed, we have jihadist camps being set up in Latin America, which Rick has been warning about, and people seem to be so preoccupied with sex. I think it says something about our culture. We maybe need a massive therapy session so we can concentrate on what the real issues are. And this contraceptive thing, my gosh, it’s such inexpensive. Back in my day, they used Bayer aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn’t that costly.
Mitchell: Excuse me, I’m just trying to catch my breath from that, Mr. Friess, frankly.
Most times when someone says something this stupid, this prejudiced – I post it with just a one-liner expressing my sincere contempt. But, describing Friess, say, as Stone Age in his outlook towards women slanders the average Neanderthal.
Putting the need for contraception solely on women, putting the blame for unwanted children on women is barely up to the 20th Century in any civilized country. I keep forgetting that some of the creeps running for political office in America have learned to lie well enough they usually avoid saying things this backwards, this stupid, this offensive.
Friess is someone who obviously should leave the lying to Rick Santorum and just keep supplying him with money.
But, they fit together, they deserve each other. They both reflect as slightly different mirrors of fundamentalist religions that are in essence patriarchal, paternalist, dismissive of women.
If some journalist needs validation for this – just take a hidden camera along and drop in at the nearest K of C bar, tomorrow night, payday. Bring up this incident on Andrea Mitchell’s show and tell it like a joke – just as Friess obviously intended. He’s probably been telling this one for 50 years. And record the reaction you get from everyone else at the bar. Good luck trying to correct anyone!
Santorum begs Google to clean up search results for his name
Rick Santorum is the 8th dillweed from the right
Daylife/AP Photo used by permission
Former U.S. Sen. and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has a well-known Google problem.
For the uninitiated, if you Google Santorum’s name, the first result you’ll probably get is not his personal website but a fake definition of “santorum,” a sexual byproduct that’s a bit too graphic to talk about in detail here.
We’ll get into how that all happened in a second, but here’s what’s new: On Tuesday, the socially conservative politician lashed out at Google, saying the company could get rid of the sexual references to his name on the search results if it wanted to — and perhaps would do so if he were a Democrat…
Santorum contacted Google and asked the company about the issue, Politico said.
In an e-mail to CNN, a Google spokeswoman said, “Google’s search results are a reflection of the content and information that is available on the Web. Users who want content removed from the Internet should contact the webmaster of the page directly. Once the webmaster takes the page down from the Web, it will be removed from Google’s search results through our usual crawling process.”
She added: “We do not remove content from our search results, except in very limited cases such as illegal content and violations of our webmaster guidelines…”
The lewd “santorum” definition popped up after the former senator compared homosexuality to pedophilia and bestiality in a 2003 interview with The Associated Press…
That angered gay rights supporters, including gay podcast host and sex columnist Dan Savage, who launched a campaign for his listeners to redefine Santorum’s name. Savage created a website to promote the winning definition and enough bloggers linked to it that the spoof site eventually eclipsed Santorum’s campaign website in search rankings.
Danny Sullivan, who writes at the blog SearchEngineLand, notes that Google has a history of being hands-off when it comes to these controversies, regardless of the politics or sensitivities involved:
“Google is loathe to touch its results in any way, shape or form. That’s because if it does intervene in any way, there’s some interest group that will immediately claim a bias…
Just an example that reactionaries are as likely as anyone else to put in a claim for political correctness.
Yes, there are qualities of bigotry that I personally think should be shunted into the garbage can of discourse – but, I’m not in charge of anything in the public eye except this blog. Santorum is getting exactly what bigots like him deserve. A joking finger up his self-image.
