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Former Republican Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania appeared on the right-wing network Newsmax on Tuesday night, trying to spin the epic failures of his party’s ideology. Santorum, who previously lost his CNN pundit gig due to being a historically...
by Walter Einenkel
 127 comments
on Wed Nov 08, 2023 at 10:08 AM PST
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Love Keith’s sarcasm:�
by jqjacobs
112 comments
on Sat May 22, 2021 at 01:22 PM PDT
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On Monday, calls came in from all corners of the internet demanding that CNN end its working relationship with failed politician Rick Santorum after offensive and historically inaccurate remarks he made during a speech went viral. At a conservative...
by Walter Einenkel
173 comments
on Tue Apr 27, 2021 at 12:37 PM PDT
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Failed politician and person and current CNN pundit Rick Santorum has once again spoken in public and in so doing, condemned himself and those around him to ridicule for his outrageously racist and false ideas about the world and history. Speaking to a...
by Walter Einenkel
209 comments
on Mon Apr 26, 2021 at 04:16 PM PDT
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Donald Trump supporters, egged on by Trump and the Republican Party’s insistence that there has been magical massive voter fraud perpetrated by the Democratic Party for decades, are threatening a lot of violence. Trump himself has been doing the thing...
by Walter Einenkel
144 comments
on Wed Nov 04, 2020 at 04:08 PM PST
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A new report out of The Daily Beast suggests that at least one of the many criminals pardoned by Donald Trump during his Tuesday free-for-all filled up the Trump Victory Committee with “hundreds of thousands of dollars in direct contributions and...
by Walter Einenkel
41 comments
on Wed Feb 19, 2020 at 09:54 AM PST
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Trump’s goose should have already been cooked even before the Mueller report was released. WIth it out now, he should been politically strung-up, drawn and quartered by now — but no, that’s not the case because there are packs of Republicans more than...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Wed Jun 19, 2019 at 01:47 PM PDT
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Alabama conservatives’ decision to nullify a woman’s right to choose has galvanized the pro-choice movement, in no small part due to the draconian level of cruelty shown by (predominantly) male lawmakers. The new law makes performing an abortion...
by Walter Einenkel
277 comments
on Sat May 18, 2019 at 01:34 PM PDT
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When I was a young newspaper reporter I started out covering police.
It wasn't too long before I was subjected to an initiation rite (i.e., hazing) by the cops.
I got a "tip" that a local celebrity was just down the road at the hospital having a...
by boorad7
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on Mon Oct 01, 2018 at 04:43 AM PDT
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Dear Rooster:
(That's what former Senator Santorum’s friends in Butler PA called him.)
You said that students who took part in the March For Our Lives would do better learning CPR or doing something else to prevent gun violence in their...
by LadyJeand
12 comments
on Mon Mar 26, 2018 at 12:17 PM PDT
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...still an asshole.
Minding my own business on a Sunday, I heard my wife gasp.
“I can’t believe they show this on tv. With the kids still awake.”
“What is it,” I hollered.
“An asshole. Right there on tv. It’s obscene.”
I got up, went...
by Blue York
15 comments
on Sun Mar 25, 2018 at 02:56 PM PDT
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I just read this offensive statement on cnn.com "State of the Union":
Santorum: Instead of calling for gun laws, kids should take CPR classes www.cnn.com/2018/03/25/politics/rick-santorum-guns-cnntv/index.html
www.cnn.com/…
I don’t know why...
by rey281
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on Sun Mar 25, 2018 at 02:28 PM PDT
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Not The Onion. Not snark. He really went there.
CNN commentator and former Pennsylvania GOP Sen. Rick Santorum on Sunday suggested students protesting for gun control legislation would be better served by taking CPR classes and preparing for...
by Sidof79
70 comments
on Sun Mar 25, 2018 at 08:43 AM PDT
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NRA Hustler, Rick Santorum, says Parkland #NeverAgain Activists Should Stop Pushing for Gun Reform and Learn CPR
In what has to be one of the most callous, repugnant comments to fall out of the mouth of a Republican since young activists have taken...
by igualdad
434 comments
on Mon Mar 26, 2018 at 07:02 AM PDT
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Trump seems more and more alone and lonely. Strange how somebody elected on his purported strength to make deals, forge and maintain relationships, looks increasingly…. isolated.
His wingnuts-on-steroids budget draft is about to get picked apart...
by Torta
14 comments
on Fri Mar 17, 2017 at 04:10 AM PDT
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Let’s start out with the fact that it is statistically non-existent. That means that sure, sometimes someone casts a ballot that they shouldn’t (or tries to do so) but it occurs less than the ...
by Woody25
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on Thu Jan 26, 2017 at 12:01 PM PST
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Someone at CNN apparently cares what former U.S. Senator (PA) Rick Santorum thinks (using the word advisedly), because he was on Van Jones’s The Messy Truth Tuesday. Joining Santorum was Mexican-born Elizabeth Vilchis, who was brought to the U.S. when...
by Mother Mags
101 comments
on Wed Dec 07, 2016 at 08:40 AM PST
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Because they’re lives. Because black people are first and foremost people and deserve to be treated with the same respect as anyone else. I know this doesn’t sound like a radical notion, ...
by Woody25
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on Mon Aug 22, 2016 at 12:07 PM PDT
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Nahigian’s arrival (and Lewandowsky’s departure) clearly display, that Trump has an impact problem. It’s overly clear that everything he does is designed on impact. But hes lacking the context. Guns in Orlando to protect gay...
by ca cokz
6 comments
on Mon Jun 20, 2016 at 08:46 AM PDT
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I was surprised to learn on election day I’d voted for Pennsylvania’s first gay U.S. Senator.
In 1991!
Yes, one of my favorite senators, Harris Wofford, 90, is marrying Matthew Charlton, 40.
Talk about...
by 8days2amish
7 comments
on Wed Apr 27, 2016 at 08:08 AM PDT
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