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If you avoid the right-wing fever swamp, it's possible you've never heard of a website called World Net Daily. As Rachel noted on the show in October, it's the site that's been a little too preoccupied with President Obama's birth certificate -- it was selling "where's the real birth certificate?" yard signs up until recently -- and believes the president may be a secretly gay Muslim.
And as of today, the fringe conspiracy website is now also the home of a certain former Republican senator and presidential candidate.
Joseph Farah's Drudge-approved conservative news site has signed up Rick Santorum for "commentaries" that will appear every Monday. It feels almost like an attempt to troll the non-conservative media, but I'll bite. Santorum will follow in the tradition of Herman Cain (columnist until he ran for president) and Chuck Baldwin (former Constitution Party candidate for president), as a politician who uses a popular but little-respected web site to ship out his epistles. He will join current columnists Chuck Norris and Pamela "Atlas Shrugs" Geller.
It's hard to overstate just how nutty WND really is. ThinkProgress grabbed a few recent headlines, one of which suggests Andrew Breibart may have been "assassinated." Right Wing Watch noted that Santorum will share space with another columnist who wants a new secessionist political party to help "white Americans who still hold to traditional values" to start a new country.
WND, in other words, is a website for the cooky fringe, home to the kind of head-shaking extremism that elicits more pity than outrage. Indeed, if you visit the site and poke around for a few minutes, it's almost inevitable that you'll find yourself wondering if WND is sincere or if it's a parody site intended to make right-wing conspiracy theorists look silly.
Why would a two-term U.S. senator and relatively successful national candidate associate himself with the looniest wing of the conservative movement? Probably because when it comes to conservative politics in the 21st century, it's awfully difficult for anyone to become so extreme that Republicans will keep them at arm's length. Indeed, don't forget that Mitt Romney campaigned with Donald Trump and gave credentials to Jerome Corsi.
As for Santorum's first published piece for WND, it condemns the U.N. Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, which enjoys bipartisan support, and which Santorum attacks with talking points that aren't true.
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According to Republican tradition, Santorum is the front runner for the 2016 Presidential Nomination. Nice feather in the ole cap there Rick, this will certainly be fun to follow...
From your lips to the FSM's ... whatever.
hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee
OK. I'm done. But I live in PA. Yep. He's a wing-nut!
I think Sick Rick Santorum and alot of these republicans are self hating homophobes.
a website for the cooky fringe
I take it you mean they're fodder for the Cookie Monster, which would be a highly-accurate observation. :-)
Re: Santorum: pond scum always finds its own proper level. He's finally arrived at a place where the Peter Principle won't have to kick in.
The best I can come up with here is "kooky fringe" unless, as a older middle-class white male I just don't get it. That has been known to happen.
What's the matter, Santorum? Fox News reject your application?
dudenextdoor Seriously! FTW
If you're too obnoxious for Fox, you go to work for WND.
Great minds think alike. :)
At the end of the next to last paragraph of his post, Steve mentions that great historian (eyes rolling) and infamous swift-boater Jerome Corsi. Corsi is also a senior staff "reporter" for WND.
Corsi is also the author of the "coulda been a contenda!" tome Where's the Birth Certificate? which was torpedoed on the day before it was to be published by Obama sending his lawyer to Hawaii to pick up a few copies of the long-form BC. He's probably got a financial grudge for that because Unfit for Command and The Obama Nation made The NYT bestseller list and there had been a fair amount of buzz over what 'bombshells' it contained. Instead Joe Farah pulled it for 3 weeks and it never really went anywhere.
Anybody else think that Vox Day (the byline on the pro secession, pro-UKIP "us-white-folk-gotta-stick-together" article) is a nom-de-plume? "Voice of the day" sounds almost...editorial. Hmmmm....
Sexual repression has such extreme consequences. Let it out Rick, it is good for you.
If "sexual repression" is the case - then every member of the GOTP suffers from it and I suggest that they all just need to lay each other.....
I've been familiar with the craziness of the WND for at least a decade now. For me, the WTF moment here wasn't that Santorum would hang around with the World Nut Daily types. It was the "Drudge-approved" part. Well, not that itself, even. But related to it.
My opinion of Drudge is pretty low, but Drudge is the guy who, up to a few short years ago, all but told the MSM what stories they should pursue. He 'ruled their world.'
And all I can think of is, these supposedly trustworthy guardians of our discourse let themselves be led around by the nose by a guy who approved of the World Nut Daily?? Good Lord Almighty.
It's pretty funny how Obama is always all of the things that these fruitcakes can't stand. He's not a straight Muslim, He's a gay Muslim. He's not a gay Christian, He's a gay Muslim. He's not your basic guy who got to be president without a birth certifcate, He's a gay, socialist, Muslim, (with Athiest leanings), without a birth certificate who got to be president.
And then of course he's half black dude also, but they can't go there, so it takes all that other crap piled into a heap to allow the fruitcakes to offset the thing they really and truly can't wrap their needle point sized brain cell around.
And even that heap of BS didn't do it this time around. How many more bad things can Obama be? He pretty much covers the waterfront on red flag provoking nefarious tendancies. No wonder they are verklempt as all hell.
I like Obama, and am glad that he was re-elected. But he was the most beatable incumbent in my lifetime. (One of) The Republicans' biggest mistake(s) was that they didn't run a campaign designed to defeat a cerebral, pragmatic, centrist who is presiding over one of the worst economies in memory (he inherited it, but incumbents still get blamed).
Instead, taking their cues from the right-wing echo chamber, they chose to fight against the radical caricature of him that has been built up on the conservative blogs and talk radio stations.
It was amazing to watch some people railing against the inevitable loss of their "freedom" that was bound to occur if he were re-elected (while totally ignoring the fact that nothing happened during the previous 4 years), yet when pressed, couldn't articulate exactly what it was that they're so frothing mad about, other than the usual "muslim, kenyan, socialist, racist" stuff.
During the GOP debates there was a little talk about Romney being Mormon. What truly got glossed over was Santorum being Catholic. What was missed is the fact that Santorum isn't just your run of the mill Catholic. Santorum is a member of Opus Dei, as is other conservative Republican politicians, including Supreme Court Justice Anton Scalia.
If Santorum ever runs for a political office again, I hope that the media would do a little research on the group and Santorum.
Wasn't Opus Dei featured in the The DaVinci Code, that model of a-chapter-in-three-pages-with-cliff-hanger-at-the-end-of-each writing style? Sheesh! And I thought it was made up. . . .
Not a chance, my Uncle was Opus Dei - And a cop. Probably the most crooked cop I ever knew (beat his wife, etc.). That being said, I'm pretty sure Opus Dei is a way for the average Catholic Male to place himself on the holiest pedastool ever and pronounce himself at near priesthood. It makes them feel powerful - and right.
*Shivers* Politics, why you so scary.
A little research on Santorum turned that up. Unfortunately not that many people seem to research candidates. I couldn't believe the weakness of any of the Republican candidates and the more I researched the worse they were.
Saintorum is ALSO Regnum Christi. A group started by Opus Dei Father Maciel, who kept getting investigated for pedophilia, and the Pope would back him up and said he doesn't do this. Father Maciel was finally investigated and kicked out of Opus Dei, and Renum Christie, and retired. And supposedly has several illegitimate children along with all the pedophilia. That's the group Saintorum hangs out with.
To assume that such a site is in truth a copy of Onion type news would be giving these freaks way to much credit. But then again one should wonder if they believe their own fantasies or just want to show the world how gullible their base can be?
Augh! I sure am glad you guys are keeping tabs on the gutters. I would hate for the snipes to amass unseen and take over.
"...one should wonder if they believe their own fantasies or..."
They must, because they actually believed there would be a "President Romney" from their polling data! Hahahahahahahaha
Little Ricky should feel right at home at World Nut Daily.
Because he's been part of it for years now.
Make them look silly? They don't need any help with that. And I would say not so much silly as ignorant and disgusting.
Again, he'll fit right in with his fellow-travelers. We must never forget how he referred to the President of the United States while on the campaign trail earlier this year:
Santorum publicly refers to the President of the United States as a "Nig-" (18 second video on web page linked to - no autoplay)
And, before we write this off as just some "fringe" movement - bear in mind that after saying the disgusting thing he said in that video, this knucklehead spent some time as the front-runner in the Rape-Public-CON Presidential primary contest and was then invited to be a featured speaker at their National Convention. Get to be known by the company you keep, indeed!
The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along.
- Arnold H. Glasow
;-)
All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
Mark Twain
Saintorum is not just Opus Dei, he is also Regnum Christi with Mel Gibson. Mel Gibson who has his own church on his property where he acts as Priest and annuls previous marriages, etc. He doesn't even go through the marriage tribunal for annulments, he does his own.
Rick Santorum will always be a rock star of the Internet ... thanks to Dan Savage.
Santorum, Chuck Norris and Pamela Geller- What a Frothy Mix, indeed!
in re brietbart
i've never killed anyone, but i confess there are obituaries i've read with pleasure.
(thanks to oscar wilde)
I know of 2 definitions for Santorum:
Santorum 1. The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex. 2. Senator Rick Santorum.
I think any article that refers to the former Senator should inclulde a disclaimer:
"This article refers to former Senator Rick Santorum. Any references to him should not be confused with the much less offensive mixture of lube and fecal matter."
All you need to know - http://bit.ly/SantorumGayJamaica
To me, I don't see that WND is that much more kooky than what I'd call say, Republicans. This is what they are now. All of them are kooks now.
I thought we'd heard the end of Santorum after we got him out of the Senate. Like anyone here in Western Pennsylvania cares what he has to say.
Wing Nut Daily is a lovely example of how many people who insist that they are good Christians have no problem with lying and lying repeatedly. You'd almost think they have never read their bibles.
Rick's in good company over there. He's still never apologized for his lies from month ago. I wonder, what excuse would his former staffers give when this is pointed out to them.
I find Santorum a little scary b/c he and his followers genuinely have a theocratic view of government. They do not believe this land was made for you and me. They believe it was made for them -- or else.
"Kooky" or "kookie" is the proper adjective; "cooky" or "cookie" refers to the kitchen rather than the attic, where the nutty relative is living....
I have a question for all of your fans, in the 1960's in Argentina Ms. Peron and Mr. Peron ran as President and Vice President, what about a Clinton Clinton run. The slogan in Argentina was Peron Peron the Formula for the People. Maybe the slogan will be, Clinton Clinton the Dream Ticket!
This land was NOT made for you and me, though, Collette. It was made for the native tribes that peppered the continent from one ocean to the other until imperialistic sailors dropped their anchors and started their bloody invasion that turned into a gluttony turkey mythological holiday. But that's taking me off of the topic. Excuse me for that. All I hopped on here for was to type this: Isn't World Net Daily the quintessential websource religious zealots flock to when their typetypetyping is rejected at other internet forums?
Take care and hang in there, everyone.
Your friend,
Warren
A representative from the Bush Crime Family probably paid Santorum a visit recently telling him his services are no longer needed for 2014 since Jeb thinks he has a chance. So Rick was told to vacate all GOP properties immediately. Where else can a Right Wingnut Republican go to get any national coverage once they have been banished to clean up the image of the party to attract moderates?
The word we should be using is "kooky", not "cooky". "Kooky" comes from a character in the TV show, "77 Sunset Strip" and was the basis for a pop song, "Kooky, Kooky, lend me your comb."
I thought it was a cooking site. Doesn't it say cook in it? Anyway, glad to get a handle on it.