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Rick Santorum for President Because …

Posted on | March 15, 2012 | 15 Comments

. . . he really brings out the crazy-talk at MSNBC:

Lawrence O’Donnell: “Is anything surprising to you in this result so far?”
Mark Thompson: “No, not at all. When Rick Santorum first announced he was running for President, in his announcement speech, he was criticizing President Obama for saying America wasn’t as great as it was until there were programs like Medicare and Social Security. But in that criticism, he said directly to the President, he said, ‘Mr. President, America was great before 1965.’  I called that out as a coded message. You know, I go to Selma every year, and 1965 is a sacred year in the history of this country, and a never-forgotten year in terms of the history of Alabama. When he said that, I knew exactly who he was speaking to in that coded language. So I’m not surprised at all that he won Alabama.”

Selma! Coded language! Also, please: Hurt Karen Finley Some More.

Category: Election 2012, MSNBC, Rick Santorum

Comments

15 Responses to “Rick Santorum for President Because …”

  1. SDN
    March 15th, 2012 @ 9:22 am

    I’m equally sure that his reference to Social Security was accompanied by a date reference too. But with a little judicious paraphrasing, they can make it about something other than massive government spending. IYKWIMAITTYD.

  2. FenelonSpoke
    March 15th, 2012 @ 9:27 am

    If someone were to ask me (and granted I’m one of those Northern white bitter clingers) I would no have no clue what the exact year of Selma was. Santorum is younger than I was; I don’t think it was coded for anything. Sometime a statement is just a statement, but this is the garbage from the liberal whiteys at MSNBC Supposedly everytime he opens his mouth  Santorum is using “code” to rally the raaaaaaacist whites. “Family values” is code too according to some screwball liberal woman news commentator. I half to give a bitter laugh when I run into whites on politics forums who referred to Herman Cain as a lawn jockey tell me how racist Santorum and all conservative voters are.

  3. William_Teach
    March 15th, 2012 @ 9:32 am

    Well, the good news is that because this was on MSNBC, and O’Donnell’s show, 10 people saw the exchange.

  4. elaine
    March 15th, 2012 @ 10:50 am

     …when I run into whites on politics forums who referred to Herman Cain as
    a lawn jockey tell me how racist Santorum and all conservative voters
    are.

    Oh, but… Herman Cain isn’t an “authentic” black man, just like Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann aren’t “real” women.

    Funny… I thought “black” referred to skin pigmentation, and “woman” referred to humans with uteruses and vaginas.  Silly me…

    As for 1965 and Selma… yeah, anyone with a modicum of sense understood he was talking about the beginning of the welfare state, but, hey… to liberals wanting a return to pre-welfare America is exactly the same thing as advocating slavery.  Or something…

  5. elaine
    March 15th, 2012 @ 10:51 am

     And 8 of those are conservatives who only watch to report to the rest of us so we can all enjoy a good laugh…

  6. robertstacymccain
    March 15th, 2012 @ 11:15 am

    Political symbols have political value, and fighting to define the meaning of symbols is something the Left has been quite ferocious about, e.g., the Confederate battle flag.

    The idea that “1965” is now a hallowed year, equal to 1776, is something I hadn’t previously contemplated, but evidently the passage of the Voting Rights Act is now viewed as a deed as important as the Declaration of Independence. 

  7. Bob Belvedere
    March 15th, 2012 @ 11:16 am

    Let us not forget that the Left has been heavily influenced by Sigmund Fraud, er, Freud, who believed that everything we say has layers of meaning.

  8. Bob Belvedere
    March 15th, 2012 @ 11:17 am

    Good one.

  9. Guest
    March 15th, 2012 @ 1:41 pm

    who cares what happens on MSWitnessProtection?

  10. richard mcenroe
    March 15th, 2012 @ 3:38 pm

    You just know Santorum would have stood in the schoolhouse door if all those Damn Democrat governors hadn’t been blocking it already.

  11. richard mcenroe
    March 15th, 2012 @ 3:38 pm

     Well, it damn sure mattered to Robert Byrd…

  12. The Osprey
    March 15th, 2012 @ 7:09 pm

    Is Chuck Johnson having a conniption fit about this “dog whistle” yet? 

  13. Tennwriter
    March 15th, 2012 @ 7:56 pm

    Wasn’t Selma where the Republicans burnt all those poor women in the Selma Witch Trials?

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