Can anyone name one of these Iowa Confederate Libertarian Rethuglican candidates who is not a racist and/or a homophobe?

Funny thing is 34% of white people get that handout he talks about, compared to 22% black and 17% hispanic people.

If Rick said “poor” instead of “Black” he would not be such a racist asshole.

Just an asshole.

“As a white man trying to keep my job at a right-wing website, I’m prepared to turn off my hearing aid and question the word of people who were actually present when Santorum spoke.”

This one’s a keeper for the Big Government job application!

For the media it’s always racism first and find out the real story later (or maybe not at all)

Ass Juice!

Racism, more often than not, turns out to BE the “real story.”

–Cobra

What’s this Tommy, A maybe dog whistle to be determined lately?
You’re determined to give him the benefit of doubt by writing it “sounds like he’s just invoking the plight of black people out of thin air, which, to a crowd of voters in “too white” Iowa, would smack of the “welfare queen” race-baiting outgrowth of the Republican Southern Strategy”. 
Just a little bit of a contradiction? 

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call The Twilight Zone.
—Rod Serling

My tinfoil hat protects me from the death rays of the supersonic coldfusion NSA Zionist Banker Bilderberg pray-to-the-sky Jesus homosexual Muslims…

XXX OOO

He and trump need to get a room together and burn a cross.

Tommy he said “black” and you know it. I know it’s hard sometime to believe that there are actually people like Santorum in America but face up to it. They only way a party that is 90% white wins is to turn against all minorities.
CBS also stated Foodstamp recipients in Iowa are 94% white.

“but even as an LGBT-friendly liberal, I’m inclined to give Santorum the benefit of the doubt”

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

Boy Mediaite sure did a really fast switcheroo:

Rick Santorum Doesn’t ‘Want To Make Black People’s Lives Better …
http://www.mediaite.com/…/rick-santorum-doesnt-want-to-make-black-peo...

It’s obvious that he started to say “I don’t want to make lives…” and then changed it to “…people’s lives better.” It doesn’t even sound like “black.” What a ridiculous non-story.

Nothing’s whiter than a liberal minimizing or trivializing REAL racism, by lobbing it as a political tool.

Congratulations, honky.

Completely agree. I don’t think he meant to, or was even thinking of, saying anything about “black people.” I think he just stumbled over his words. Somewhat inarticulate, but a complete non-story.

You do realize that by posting that comment in this thread, a comment which has absolutely nothing to do with this article and is a broad, self-serving, and ridiculous conspiracy theory, that it makes you the troll, right? Please tell me that you realize that.

Ron Paul want to end the War on Drugs thereby striking one of the greatest blows ever to Racism in the USA. So I assume you weren’t including him in your assessment . 

Rick Santorum is a racist? What a shock! It would be amazing if he weren’t.

And even those numbers are fluid.  

But what did anyone expect from “Santorum surges from behind”? You’re bound to end up with an “level of fluidity” that’s “unprecedented:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/02/unprecedented-level-of-fluidity-in-race-says-iowa-gop-chairman/ 

So Tommy Christopher doesn’t think Santorum said Black. Yes he did.  I cannot believe that we are supposed to believe something totally didfferent from what we can see with our eyes and hear with our ears.
Santorum is a racist. 
I cannot believe the MSM pretends these Republicans are not a bunch of sick disturbed racists.  They prove it everyday. 

It was reported by NPR what was stated.  Yet this dude says what is said plainly is not what we heard. 

‘Freudian Slip’….he said, what he believes yet!!!!

If he’d said that, he wouldn’t mean it; he’s too SINCERE an asshole.  

He’s riding high on a bed of froth, having worked his fingers to the bone to massage life into his campaign, erecting it on the crusted parts of a discarded sea of tissue.  

(Sorry for the metaphor; I lacked a pithy analogy.)

I’m not sure where to draw the bridge. The entire Mediaite seems to work as troll bait.

Best I can figure, you wanted to take a cheap shot at Tommy, who’s posted with his usual fairness & attention to reality, but then in the course of typing out your diatribe, things got a little disordered between what you THOUGHT you’d read under his byline, and the, you know, actual words that are present.  

It’s possible that if you got back & read Tommy’s words again, your error will become clear to you.  

CBS News has posted a cleaner version of Santorum’s remarks, and it
seems as though Santorum did not actually say “black people’s lives,”
but rather, that he stumbled in mid-sentence with a verbal tic that sounded like that.

“Some say it’s racist” anyway. As if they really care, or as if that really means anything anymore.

And the African-American percentage of the population is 12%. You’re not a bigot if you say that the black population uses welfare at a higher rate. 

Everyone is a racist. Your mother is a racist. Your dog is a racist. The world is racist. You are racist.

I just wonder what we’re going to call people who think particular races of people are inferior now that “racist” means anyone you disagree with.

That room would appear to be located in Texas*, since some nice Trump supporters managed today to get his name on the ballot there.  

I think Trump may be operating on the notion that, with the Texas primary being scheduled several months into the future, this buys him some credibility for his continuing series of self-advertisements on the semi-regular Plugging The Donald spots with Greta Van Lemonswaller on Fuppet News.

(*I’m thinking Waco.)

Why does an accusation of racism require a whole article dedicated to solving the mystery of ‘Is This Person a Racist?’ Santorum’s comment is only advocating self-reliance instead of a perpetual cycle of welfare dependence that so many Americans live on these days. 

The African-American population receives welfare at a higher rate which may have been why Santorum mentioned it. It’s not racist to admit those statistics. If more than only 50% of black households had 2 parents and if African-Americans did not drop out of high school at a higher rate, this higher welfare dependence rate would not be. 
When you scream racism at everything it’s hard to have a reasonable debate. 

This is the southern strategy.  “If you vote for me, I will prevent the black people from taking your things.”

The new editor must be a ninja.

Any white person who says “black people” or anything that sounds anywhere near close enough for it to be mistaken as “black people” is a racist, that’s why. Racist!

Kinda boring, ain’t it?

shut up you damnd mexican.

There were are: the number grows increasingly fluid, but definitely whiter – a viscous circle, if you will (and despite what most say, most do).

Actually, Tommy appears to have it right – from THIS sound angle, at least. From THIS sound angle, it’s like Der Surgemeister (That’s unfair – he’s Italian: il Duce Dell’impulso.), it’s ambivalent as to whether he tripped himself up before being caught on video saying “black”, or just did a mouth-stumble – tho it’s hard to conceive of what other word, in context, would have started with the sound “bulah…” OTHER than black. 

Forget it, folks – it’s Iowa:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v_BVNGAfYM 

Google it.

Curious that Santorum took a discussion about Medicare, Medicaid, etc. and chose to make it a racial issue.

Conservatives indignantly accuse progressives of attempting to create “class warfare”, and yet they don’t bat an eye when one of their leading candidates strives to stir up “race warfare”.

FYI…he was asked DIRECTLY about this later and did NOT deny it, just said he did not know the context of the statement (even though he himself said it just yesterday).

Here is the interview with his non-denial…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwYdXOAGXlc 

Hopefully you will retract this nonsense as it is clear as a bell what he said…and he did NOT deny it.

I just played this for a third party without telling her the context or who was speaking.

She said she heard “a lot”, as in “I don’t wanna make a lot of peoples lives better…”

Charmin tissue? Used?

You guys are really pushing it. He clearly said blk ppls. I listened over and over. Read his lips he totally formed a B for blk. You guys can spin it all you want. You know he said it. I will watch again. Yes confirmed.

You guys are really pushing it. He clearly said blk ppls. I listened over and over. Read his lips he totally formed a B for blk. You guys can spin it all you want. You know he said it. I will watch again. Yes confirmed.

I love all the comments from people who haven’t read the article or watched the clips.

Santorum is scummy to the nth degree, but he didn’t say ‘black’ in the clip.

I’m not Mexican, you damned fool. Also, I can spell “damned”.

Technically, you’re right. He said “black people”, not “blacks”.

Actually, he took a discussion about foreign influence on the U.S. economy and chose to make it a domestic racial issue.

Rick doesn’t have a snowballs chance in hell of getting the nomination but that doesn’t stop Team Obama from sicking his lapdogs on Rick anyway – suggest he is a racist and voila – the media is reporting he is a racist.
 
What a sick bunch of lapdogs in the media today.  It is a good thing the public is a lot smarter than Tomny and hew crew.
 
Geez.

Pretty sure it’s “Blind people.”  That would make the most sense.  The culture of dependency hurts them the most.

Yeah but so what? He didn’t say he didn’t want to “make black peoples lives better”, HE SAID HE DIDN’T WANT TO DO IT BY GIVING THEM OTHER PEOPLES MONEY, he said however that he DID WANT TO MAKE THEIR LIVES BETTER by giving them the TOOLS to help themselves!  How in the world is that “racist”?   Look, i’m black and can be “reasonably offended”. Ron Paul’s newsletters- RACIST. OFFENSIVE. BORDERLINE INSANE. Rick Santorum’s comments- NOT OFFENSIVE IN THE SLIGHTEST and if ANYTHING , CONSTRUCTIVE. 

No but you ARE  bigot if you refuse to realize that it is BECAUSE OF WHITE PEOPLE’S RACISM that they need it in the first place!   The civil rights act is not even 50 years old in this country but some of you “libertarians/racist rom paul supporters, act as if 400 years of damage can be undone in 50.  That, just LOGICALLY, is STUPID.   And if is RACIST of you not to realize this. 

What is racist about saying I don’t want to help black people THIS way, I want to help them THAT way? Please don’t answer I’ve read your posts, you’re an IDIOT. I just wanted to insert some sanity in your thread…thanx.

Tommy has no “fairness” to speak about. He does however sometimes acquaint himself with reality.

I am anti-RP, but this is a fair response to his question.

A better, question, though, would be, “Can anyone name one of these Iowa Confederate Libertarian Rethuglican candidates who does not pander to racists and/or homophobes?

That one, Ron Paul cannot deny, as he benefited from a decade of race and gay baiting (which he now conveniently disavows).

of course there is some truth in both of your points, Pablo.

we are all inherently “racist” if your using the term as simply meaning we all instinctively associate with our own groups and perhaps even are suspicious of groups we aren’t familiar with.

BUT THAT MISSES THE IMPORTANT POINT:

Some policies ARE racist.

Some policies ARE class warfare.

Republican policies tend to be both (with the exception of RP’s policy on drugs).

Great, now, I have to go back and correct the spelling in all of my posts.

THANKS PABLO!

just kidding

DoNotMindMe

You also have to ADMIT that MORE WHITE PEOPLE use “welfare” THAN BLACK PEOPLE.

Stop hiding behind stats you bigot.

That’s why it’s racist.

It suggests that all Black people want White people’s money.

It’s pandering to the racists.

You miss the point completely, once again PABLO.

He’s pandering to racists by suggesting that all black people are out for white people’s money, and by extension all liberals want the 1percent to pay higher taxes to give to the BLACKS and by extension all Dems want to give YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY to lazy Black people.

It’s pretty blatant, Pablo. Not ho-hum like you suggest.

He’s pandering to racists by suggesting that all black people are out for white people’s money, and by extension all liberals want the 1percent to pay higher taxes to give to the BLACKS and by extension all Dems want to give YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY to lazy Black people.

Pablo, you are a filthy racist for merely typing the word “racist.”  There.  You’ve made me one too.  I’ve done it twice.

He’s pandering to racists by suggesting that all black people are out for white people’s money, and by extension all liberals want the 1percent to pay higher taxes to give to the BLACKS and by extension all Dems want to give YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY to lazy Black people.

And it also suggests that POOR people and MIDDLE CLASS people just want handouts NOT JOB TRAINING.

JOB TRAINING IS NOT FREE.

He doesn’t deny he said it.  And doubled down on it when asked.

CBS Interview with Santorum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb8dXD5LWZw

Dog Whistle politics–Southern Strategy. George Wallace couldn’t have said it better.

–Cobra

It’s pretty insulting.

He obviously said it.

But didn’t mean it.

Which means he was MESSAGING to the racists who believe all Libs want to take away hard working white people’s money and give it to lazy people who don’t want to work.

This is the 1 percent messaging about why they shouldn’t pay their fair share of taxes.

It’s less racism than pandering to racists.

But what it really is is
MESSAGING on behalf of the 1 percent for why they shouldn’t have to pay their fair share of taxes.

BECAUSE LIBS JUST WANT TO GIVE IT AS HAND OUTS TO LAZY people.

Do you have a point here, or are you just waiving the PC flag?

you’re an idiot

 You win the PC Award tonight.  Your lib flag is the highest.

you make people SAD

spoken like a Troll eating Troll. well said

 These idiots are going to give Obama four more years.  There is an ocean of them.

your mission is to make people sad with your heightened state of ignorance…

but keep it up

You have a right to express your ideas no matter how crazy they seem to the rest of the world

Ignore the Trolls who call you a Troll. Because even if you are a troll, it takes one to know one, which means everybody on this board, even the Troll-Eating-Trolls are trolls. So if everyone is a troll, then the word troll has lost its meaning. Which by the way, is an invented meaning, because trolls existed long before blogs existed.

You are really smart, Santorum is from Pennsylvania, a NORTHERN state.

I haven’t read Tommy’s original post, and don’t plan to.

but quenia seemed to make a pretty fair point.

He’s pandering to racists by suggesting that all black people are out for white people’s money, and by extension all liberals want the 1percent to pay higher taxes to give to the BLACKS and by extension all Dems want to give YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY to lazy Black people.And it also suggests that POOR people and MIDDLE CLASS people just want handouts NOT JOB TRAINING or education or fair access to the workplace or economic development or better schools or an end to the drug war and the endless wars overseas, etc.

The best thing for Santorum is that everyone makes this all about race, when it’s really about the Republican war on the Middle Class and the working poor.

to be fair, it’s very similar to what Obama said about people clinging to their guns and Bible when he thought he was talking to a group of like minded folks.

Don’t get me wrong, there are notorious panderers who take it to the extremes of manipulation (Newt, Romney, McCain, Bush).

But we seem to be unwilling to admit that everyone talks a different way among “Friends” than they do in public. If a politician claims they don’t, they are lieing.

That’s why I get kind of crazy sometimes that the media only really cares about QUOTES, i.e. what is on record of somebody saying. And they ignore evidence, like people’s past writings or actions, especially if they are disavowed in the present tense.

Then they are surprise when the politician gets elected and starts implementing policies that coincide with their record and beliefs.

The Virginia Gov comes to mind, as does the Govs of Florida and Wisconsin.

It is a good thing the public is a lot smarter than Tomny and hew crew.

They are not smarter, though.  Get ready for four more years of Obama.  The entertainment industry, the media, higher education, public education– they are all full of this lapdog worship.  I feel sorry for a lot of the young libs who post here.  No doubt many are young kids out of college for a few years still trying to find that first job, meanwhile making sandwiches at Jimmy Johns.  They will live their adult lives out in a “second world” country behind China.  And years down the road historians will expose these dirty tricks.

spoken like a “lawyer”

first instinct is always to create fog when all the sun wants to do is shine through

do you have a point or you just like to post lawyerly questions with the pretense of having a superior position?

Does that mean Palin Comment (PC)?

It’s not PC to point out bigots pandering to bigots.
But if I must wear your flag, I will wear it proudly

I’m just so sick of your RIGHTWINGers playing the victim card and then the PC card whenever it’s convenient for you.

Palin attacked Hillary for using the woman card, and then later played the same woman card whenever convenient.

And we see this over and over by you phony rightwing messengers of ignorance.

(by the way, i’m a Centrist)

Obama judged in a vacuum should not be re-elected. 

Because for three years he played the APPEASEMENT game with you hard-liners, thinking he would win you over by his personal charm.

But you guys are just rats, and no matter what he did, you were going to eat him alive and enjoy his pain.

But judged against these Rightwing nuts and extremists you call CANDIDATES, he’s the only sane choice.

Blighted

Exactly.  It is disingenuous to conflate welfare and Black people and the problems of the economy.  It statistically doesn’t hold water in any way.  That is what makes it racist.  It relies upon a negative and untrue racial belief to forward a political position which impacts public policy.

lol…imagine if Obama had told a Black audience in Harlem that he wanted to get the Whites off welfare and put them to work and the audience clapped?

The Right-wing websites would have their best Sunday lynching robes on by now.

You’re pretty stupid, huh?

Tommy Christopher
 YOU KNOW FOR A FACT HE SAID THAT AND FOR YOU TO IGNORE THIS AND GIVE A BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT PASS. SHOWS THAT MOST WHITES, JUST DON’T GET IT.  AFRICAN AMERICANS, ARE YOUR FELLOW AMERICANS. THIS DOG WHISTLE MESS HAS GOTTEN TO BE A BIT TO MUCH AND THEN WHITE PEOPLE LIKE YOU CONDONE IT AND GIVE IT A PASS… YOU PEOPLE ARE MAKING THE SITUATION WORST……

YOU JUST DON’T CARE DO YOU! BUT SAY THAT IN A GROUP OF BLACK PEOPLE AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS…..

How do you know what he was suggesting? Obama wants to tax anyone making over $250 thousand which is hardly just the ’1%’, and some people don’t think that’s fair. What’s the big deal with that ideology? 

What exactly do you liberals want to do with the money once you tax ‘the rich’ for it? 
You make it sound like ALL of the people that are on welfare NEED it. Well, I’m not here to be politically correct so I’m not afraid to say that many people on welfare need to help themselves before asking the government for money. 
If you drop out of highschool, have a baby when you are 16, and smoke cigarettes (thus spending ~$150 / month) on them, I don’t think you automatically deserve welfare just because your choices make it harder to support yourself or find a job. 

Obama attended a church with a black audience that clapped when the preacher said ‘God Damn the White Man’ 

You are trying way too hard to make Santorum seem racist. 

What is a  ’fair share’ for the 1% in your mind? 

A poor education system and reckless spending of tax dollars are problems created by the GOVERNMENT! Yet you are adamant about the 1% giving the government MORE money to somehow fix the problems they created in the first place.

Makes NO sense. 

Maybe invite Robert Byrd (Democratic Senator and former Grand Wizard of the KKK).

Maybe invite Harry Reid to talk about ‘The Negro Dialect’
Maybe invite Joe Biden so he can make jokes about Indian people owning gas stations. 

And 92% of Iowa’s population is white so a 94% welfare rate is pretty on par. Now go look at the national welfare rate, and you will see that African-Americans receive welfare at a higher margin. 

(That’s supposed to be “jailhouse lawyer”).

(by the way, i’m a Centrist)

Me too.  I’m all over the lot.

It’s the blatant implication that he’s making; that black people are after easier lives thru other peoples money. He didn’t say ‘welfare recipients’ or ‘poor people’ (which still would have been idiotic and careless but not racist) but he instead singled out just ONE group within the larger group of welfare recipients.

You must admit he singled them out. He suggested another way to ‘help’ them, but again the implication is there; that it is black people that are out for easier lives with other peoples money, not the entire larger group of welfare receivers. Singling out a minority group like that and painting them as lazy thieves (essentially!) IS racist, and it’s concerning you can’t see that. I don’t know you but I suggest you need to re think what you see as racism and what you allow.

And he’s also a coward too, bc after this he cowardly dodges follow up questions from soft baller Hannity of all friendly sycophants! He pretends he doesn’t remember saying these things bc he doesn’t want to pander TOO much to the racists, but just enough that he secures their support. Disgraceful! He intentionally made a racial remark to pick up that racist vote and it’s disgusting! Southern strategy! Racists vote in high numbers, after all. Rick isn’t as goofy as he looks!

Well the $64000 question is this: if all you say is true, why haven’t they shut you down yet? It should be a walk in the park for these guys, right?

Why are you still around? You’d think they’d have tracked you down and ‘shut you up’ long ago!?

Could you imagine this boob saying “Give them the opportunity to earn their own money” Does this guy live under a rock? I guess he don’t want the slackers votes

I’m with you, Pablo. The funny thing is, if you listen to this clip a few times you will hear he makes a verbal mash up of “people” and “lives”. He actually says “pbligh” not “black”. He is talking to an almost all white crowd and is saying “more and more of you” to them. While trying to pin the “racist” meme on a Republican for sport is the typical game around here, sometimes you guys just try too hard.

Welcome aboard, racist!

Paul’s desire to end the war on drugs is completely ideological.

That it’s a racist program and would positively effect non-whites as a byproduct of it’s ending, doesn’t mean Paul isn’t racist.

I support it either way, but to use it as evidence that he isn’t racist is absurd.

No but you ARE  bigot if you refuse to realize that it is BECAUSE OF
WHITE PEOPLE’S RACISM that they need it in the first place! 

So that’s where the 70% black out of wedlock birth rate comes from! I’ve always suspected Whitey, but it’s good to have confirmation.

some of you “libertarians/racist rom paul supporters, act as if 400 years of damage can be undone in 50

Sure it can. From the time a generation is born, the one that spawned it is dead in 50 years.

You didn’t read the post or watch the clip, did you, Barry?

But it’s much easier to blame Whitey.

When you’re doing the writing, it’s a 100% certainty.

I think it means that black people are queer.

Do black people have a problem with ninjas?

Cut and paste much?

I wonder what the African American man standing behind Santorum felt about his racist remark? You know, the black guy who has a job operating the microphone????
Come on, Repubs, nominate Santorum to be your presidential candidate – that would be almost as good a gift to Dems as having Palin running!  

you are a fool and can anyone tell this Black person, who has been paying taxes for 30 years now – when we talk about tax money when did Black people stop paying taxes?  How did it all become white peoples’ money.  Please tell me the box I am suppose to check off to tell the tax collector I am black and therefore only get tax money and I don’t have to pay taxes???? Where is that Box?

What racist remark?

Butthurt, in all caps.

Sure he didn’t say “unemployed” ?

Yes, absolutely this makes perfect sense. He made an articulate statement about “mmbligh” people, all of his aides heard what some bleeding-heart liberals inexplicably thought it sounded like but did not comment, and when asked to comment on why he said something that sounded like “Black People,” refused to clarify because any idiot should have known he meant “mmbligh.” Don’t you see what kind of light you are painting yourself in by labeling yourself as an “LGBT-friendly liberal”? What if you said “even as a Jew-friendly liberal” or “even as a Black-friendly liberal”? Don’t you see the implication that you are somehow doing LGBT people a favor by being “friendly” to them?

“It is a good thing the public is a lot smarter than Tomny and hew crew.”
 
Um…..yeah.

Woo. 
Sure schooled him, huh?
Way to miss the point.

Says the guy with the questionable icon named Booberry Pah.

Maybe he did mean “black people”, and if he did…so. I don’t believe his comment had racist intent, as it was part of a broader argument.  There are many black people who would prefer a manufacturing job over a welfare check.  When they are asked to offer a plan they argue for the return of manufacturing to this country .  Santorum offers up a solution for relief of our manufacturing deficit.  You would think he would receive praise from liberals for his progressive economic ideas.

He didn’t confirm it either. In fact, if anything, he doubted he said it because he didn’t say why he’d say such a thing but didn’t want to call the reporter a liar. You’re an intellectually dishonest hack; if you could think criticially instead of just engage in Leftist groupthink, you’d see the obvious: He DOESN’T know everything he’s said, but he DOES know he wouldn’t say something like that, the way you tools are twisting it, so THAT’S what he focuses on in his response. Do you know everything YOU’VE said recently? Of course not, and you’re not even running for any sort of office at all.

Except he didn’t. Hack.

The Leftist echo chamber repeating the same old tripe day after day doesn’t “prove” anything, hack.

What would actually be amazing would be if the Left actually required credible evidence that someone was a racist before they accused them of such. Oh wait, being in the GOP is all the “evidence” they need. Your ilk are the actual racists, FYI. Institutionalized racism via “affirmative action” is one of your favorite agendas. You don’t want equality of the races. You want to buy votes and perhaps soothe your liberal guilt in the process – while keeping the minorities on the Plantation your forefathers stuck them on to begin with.

Hey, genius: He wasn’t asking what the acronym stands for. It’s actually a great question, and Pablo’s tongue-in-cheek answer fits perfectly.

“It’s the blatant implication that he’s making”
There’s no implication. There’s just race-card playing hacks like you INFERRING whatever bullcrap you think you can get away with.

“You must admit he singled them out”
In fact, NO, we DON’T have to “admit” that. Because he DIDN’T, you hack. Even Mr. Christopher says he didn’t.

He didn’t suggest any such thing. You hear what you want to hear, and you being a Leftist hack who thinks the GOP are racist despite not having any intelligent or credible evidence to back this up (because you’re a hack who relies on groupthink instead of critical thought), you “naturally” come to the “conclusion” that whatever he said MUST have been racist or at least pandering to racists if it’s at all remotely possible (even if ridiculous leaps in “logic” are required).

“The GOP are racist because, why, look at all the racist things they say and do! What, those things aren’t necessarily racist? Why, of course they are! We know the GOP’s motives! For proof, look at this OTHER racist thing they did!” And repeat. It’s all circular reasoning with you useful idiots.

The video doesn’t actually support your argument, hack. All you’ve got is circular reasoning – you “prove” the “intention” of the comment, which doesn’t even say what you say it does, by pointing to past comments, which don’t even say what you say they do.

There are more white people than black people in the U.S. Oh, whoops, sorry. More stats I’m not supposed to “hide behind.” I’d better tell all the black conservatives to stop hiding behind them with me, I guess. But they’re all “Uncle Toms,” amiright? How convenient for you that everyone who opposes your views is 1) a racist, 2) a race-traitor if they’re a minority, and 3) not allowed to use statistics or otherwise make a factually based argument.

Go yell at Bill Cosby, then, idiot.

Lawyers posing questions the witness can’t (read: won’t) answer… very often win cases. Hack.

Lawyers posing questions the witness can’t (read: won’t) answer… very often win cases. Hack.

“Republican policies tend to be both”

“The GOP are racist because, why, look at all the racist things they say and do! What, those things aren’t necessarily racist? Why, of course they are! We know the GOP’s motives! For proof, look at this OTHER racist thing they did!” And repeat. It’s all circular reasoning with you useful idiots.

Really way for you to miss the point Santorum is not a Southerner. HE IS LYING.

i listened to the clip a few times, it doesnt even sound like he said the word ‘black’, sounded like ‘blagh’ but more fun to assume he said ‘black people’ and then this anchor can say, “Santorum just said ‘black people!’ *proof* that he is racist!”

hmm

Todd, Southern Strategy as in a strategy to win the south, aka an area a northern politician would have to work hard to get, not a strategy from a person from the south

BS, if he didn’t think that way he could have at least said “well, whatever was said, I can assure you that’s not what I meant…” but no, he needed the “context” because he knows it’s something he might have accidentally let slip out

Exactly, it shouldn’t have been that hard to deny unless he knows it’s something he might have actually said

Can you fight, I hope so because, it’s easy to talk trash on a computer, but be able to back it up. If you can’t fight go learn how so you can stop being a internet tough guy and write things that make sense. If you don’t like my caps, ignore them. you biogt. White people swear you own the internet.  

What is blagh. What populace was he referring to when he said blagh. You can’t be serious,neither can the writer of this lame cover-up.Are you afraid to accept the fact, that the nation, is going backwards and racism is alive and well.

Bill Cosby isn’t running for president, or any other public office that can shape government policy affecting poor and working-class people, idiot.

I’d have inserted the caveat ‘IF he’d said black there’ but I didn’t because Santorum himself was given an opportunity to clear up the error and tell the world he never said ‘black’ but he didn’t! So going by the evidence available, Santorum did indeed say ‘black’ here, since he whole thing couldve been cleared up and forgotten about and resulted in free publicity for his campaign and many humble apologies coming his way from the media that ran with it, had Santorum really not said ‘black’. If he didn’t say black he wouldve said he didn’t say black, it’s that simple! He didn’t, therefore he did say black, or he didn’t say black but was happy with the inadvertent dog whistle that went out and decided to pretend he meant it…which is much worse.

So stop defending him and laughably, calling ME a hack when you don’t even know me.

Only hypocrites use the “racist” “homophobe” bs.  Such baseless name calling replaces intelligent thought.

Pablo is actually an Italian name

Spin it or twist it or paint it or walk it back all they want (the Santorum camp), I listened several times and I have a good ear for words and speech … Santorum said “black people.” Now what? Punt, I guess.

Gary,
The following are just a couple of quotes from Ron Paul’s political newsletter published in the early ’90s:
First regarding the riots in LA in 1992:
     “Order was only restored in LA when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began…What
if the checks had never arrived? No doubt the blacks would have fully
privatized the welfare state through continued looting. But they were
paid off and the violence subsided.” –Ron Paul Political Newsletter, June 1992

Next about the black population in the D.C. area:
 ”Given the inefficiencies of what DC laughingly calls the ‘criminal justice system,’ I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal…We
are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, [but] it
is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies,
muggings, and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers.” — Ron Paul Newsletter 1992

In light of those I don’t know that RP is the best response to op’s question.

You are hearing what you want to hear.

Jessica, “Pablo” is a Spanish name.  “PAULO” is Italian.

Um… even if your argument there were true–which its not– that would not be an example of “circular reasoning” (by which I assume you mean circular logic?) It might be begging the question, if your own argument wasn’t also using that tactic. Basically, your stuck in an “Are too! Am not!” situation. Like arguing with a three year old. To be clear… in this situation you are the three year old. 

That 70% figure is completely inaccurate.  This is how stereotypes get further advanced.   Just because someone wrote it and it is out on the internet does not mean it is true….

Here are accurate stats.. of the individuals receiving food stamps in Iowa (where this discussion began)  9% are black and 84% are white.  The percentage ratio based on race (white to white vs black to black) also suggests that more whites are on welfare…. Either way based on the number of people or the ratio of whites on welfare vs total whites in state, vs number of blacks on welfare vs. total blacks in state, the answer is the same.  Just like to brink in the facts and keep it real. 

Come on Red folk. The guy is so prejudice, just fess up to what he really means. You all think the same thing, so why defend him

Wow, I must be a complete disappointment to my race, black conservatives and white conservatives alike.  I am a black, single-parent, liberal, female with an MBA and an MAOM (no student loan money).  I own my own home, I own my own car(s).  My son is a 19-year old college senior and my daughter is a straight A student in high school with colleges all lined up.  I know for a fact that the 50% statistic is bogus.  I know that there are so many other black folks just like me, I socialize with them all over the country.  What amazes me is the lack of insight, and knowledge that is so very obvious to many about what makes the statement racist.  This isn’t rocket science.  First of all, there are a number of races on Welfare and in many places, those groups exceed the ratio of blacks on public assistance vs population.  Next, to single out a particular group and label it a certain way without specific facts to back up your statement indicates that you are speaking out of your ass.  Further, to makes such a statement suggests to a bunch of lug-headed racist people that all black people are on welfare.  If you are running for President and representing EVERYONE. then it might be appropriate not to give those who hate even more hollow bullets to load the gun with.  Diplomacy skills like this will have us back in another war!  You see, racists don’t need to have facts, accurate percentages (as seen in this blog alone) or anything concrete to continue to spew out information and claim it to be gospel. 

And slavery in America never existed, right Tommy

none of them are, all you people use is the race card

As a Black woman, if I were on his team, I’d have advised him to say the following is his defense statement:

“Yes, that’s exactly what I said and what I meant. My intent was to go on to clarify that I singled that population out because they have been the most historically disenfranchised and I believe there is still a lot more work to be done in that area; however, I got ahead of myself and continued on without making that clarification.”

That would have instantly turned him from looking like a prejudiced bigot to looking like a champion for the cause of Black advancement. These politicians need some more laypersons on their staff to help with these things!

Listen to his BLACK with headphones and it is clearly the word BLACK.  What is the definition of ‘mmbligh’ that he claims he said?  The video has a blip. not his actual speech.  Just what was his intended word that he changed?  His brain realized BLACK was a bad choice, but he couldn’t stop his mouth; just like a politician.

Why not?  My tax money helped bail out banks and big business.  I need to get it back.

I pay taxes and all my friends and family.  Where is it written that only white people pay taxes? 

More Africans Americans may receive welfare because of job discrimination unequal schooling, and poor environment.  When they get better schools , they excel.

Somebody help me out here…..If the rich white people were doing so well, why did the economy tank?  And, and why did they need my taxpayer money to bail them out?  I smell a rat…..

My sentiments exactly…..They made that crap up didn’t they…….?

Evidently you don’t watch Jerry Springer.  You should see all those little white girls with black babies.  I was shocked.

According to how God has blessed them…..No loopholes, no subsidies, no offshore accounts.  See Warren Buffett…..

santorum only made things worse by lying about his use of the phrase “black people”.  i have seen the clip at least a dozen times, and there is absolutely no doubt that he said “black people”.  therefore, santorum is not only a bigot but a liar as well (and i would tell him so to his face if possible).  i guess telling the truth is not a family value.    christina anne knight