The rest of the Republican Party and the rest of the world has moved on. Naturally, Santorum did not accept the offer. The founder of Freedom to Marry, Evan Wolfson, has said if the US Supreme Court rules in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage next month, as seems probably, he will close up shop. Mission accomplished. Savage, too, has declared victory over Santorum.
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Why is Rick Santorum, the pundit equivalent of a slice of white bread, relevant? Why is Rick Santorum, period? Here are some pundits CNN could book instead—ones that are both less likely to bleat out racist sentiments while defending theocratic fascism and that would have a better grasp on both policy and political strategy than Rick Santorum ever will:.
Like, literally, he bought one wood. What's the wood doing? Does the wood have thoughts about "race theory? Please interview the endless void of space rather than Rick Fking Santorum. Here is a topic: The endless void of space is also lying.
It has an end. It made promises it could not keep. We could keep going like this forever, but that would require caring. At heart, every network hack who asks Rick Santorum to weigh in on anything, in this actual year of , ought to ask themselves whether this is literally all they can muster up for their audience. Whether booking Bland But Angry Meatlump is intended as the insult to viewers as it comes across as, or whether it is mere apathy.
But we're not going to stay up nights waiting for the answer. Irrelevance spreads at the same speed relevance does, and there have been no programs Rick Freaking Santorum has been on which were not already diminished the moment they proposed, to viewers, that this truly was the best political analysis the network could be bothered to muster. It remains amazing that Rick Santorum still exists, in this reality—one would have thought he would have faded away like other famous for famousness gadflies of the past.
But no, the man found a second wind in being one of the people in America most willing to defend grotesqueries nobody else could stomach. Sure, he's a bigot. Sure, he's blazingly ignorant about every single subject he holds forth on. But his most notable point is being a self-made monument to arrogant white male mediocrity. It's as if all the cookie-cutter conservative child pundits of the past merged together into one bowl of lukewarm grievance.
Honestly, just leave us alone, CNN. It's been a tough year, and a tough four years, and an actual insurrection occurred just a few months back based on the exact sort of reality-denying gaslighting you relied on nightly for low-cost titillation during times of crisis, and we are tired of you and your performative indifference on every existential threat facing the country.
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