If Lemon was really mad or had any integrity he should have ‘slammed’ CNN for continually playing this stupid game by having the people on and giving them a platform in the first place.
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Sigh, If wasn’t John Stewart it was Dan Savage that did that.
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Among the several completely false statements Santorum makes here, his claim that America was birthed as a Judeo-Christian nation by Europeans is really the most hilarious because, no, actually, the American system was inspired by the Council of Iroquois Nations
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probably ought to be compulsory reading in all schools in the country
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Santorum can bite my crank! What an asshole!
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Thanks! I was going to make the correction… glad we still find traces of this campaign, errrr, smeared around the internet. (side note, is it still a neologism if it’s been around for nearly two decades? well done Dan Savage)
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I get where you are coming from, but any reality based republican is, almost by definition, not really a representative of mainstream republican thought. As repugnant as it is, I think it is probably (?) better to shine a light on them than pretend that anyone other than the inmates are running the asylum…
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You’re right. We did talk about those things, even though we followed it up with reenactments of the land run. We also studied the Iriquois Constitution, which the US Senate recognized in 1988 as being a significant influence:
The Iroquois Confederacy, founded by the Great Peacemaker in 11421, is the oldest living participatory democracy on earth2. In 1988, the U.S. Senate paid tribute with a resolution3 that said, “The confederation of the original 13 colonies into one republic was influenced by the political system developed by the Iroquois Confederacy, as were many of the democratic principles which were incorporated into the constitution itself.”
I realize that there is no reason for Rick Santorum to know anything about this, especially since he was actually a member of that body (although he wasn’t in the Senate at the time).
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CO2.
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Rick Santorum will not listen to Don Lemon after all he is just another one of the “blah” people but the powers that be at CNN are the ones who should be held responsible for Santorum’s continued employment.
I love that Rick went with “I misspoke” instead of the usual “I was taken out of context.”
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In a few decades, it will be ascribed to Ben Franklin, or Mark Twain, or Albert Einstein.
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Actually, it was Dan Savage in his column/blog Savage Love.
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He’s just ringing the CNN bell …
Ricky is gichi mookomaan.
It’s expected.
Rick Santorum has always been an asshole. I’ve known that ever since my first distasteful encounter with him when he crashed our college farewell party in 1977. He tried to pick up a girl who slapped him in the face.
He didn’t stop there, he tried it again and got another smack in the cheek.
And when he ran for Senator in 1994 he made the fatal mistake of knocking on the door of my parent’s house. Mom opened the door, yelled at him and slammed the door in his face.
Mom hated him. Oh and Dad would use all 7 of Carlin’s words you can’t say on TV when it came to the guy he always called PRICK!
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Rick Santorum is against Slavery. He would have been an Abolitionist.
Rick Santorum is against the abrogation of treaties with Native American tribes, the taking of their land, their forced removal and ressettlement. He would have been an activist in the forefront of the Native American Civil Rights movement.
Rick Santorum is a defender of Children In The Womb.
How dare you criticize Rick Santorum.
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Yeah, and in that second clip posted above, Santorum states, without any irony or awareness that “all men are created equal.” In the first clip, he says that the “unborn in the womb” are being persecuted.
Unbelievable. What a truly ignorant and uneducated jerk.
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Indignation is an Industry. Right now I am more interested in
(1) The Infrastructure Bill
(2) The Voting Rights Bill
(3) The George Floyd Bill
(4) Immigration Legislation
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And for Sen Manchin to come to his senses.
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