The other day GOP Presidential candidate, and mathematical wizard, Rick Santorum had the following back and forth with CNN's Ali Velshi:
SANTORUM: [Obama] passed a huge stimulus package that now we know, over the past two quarters, has actually cost American jobs, and that’s from the report of his own administration. They claimed in December that, uh, by the end of last year that they created 280 million jobs, and now they’re saying that they created only 240 million jobs. So look, in this, you’re talking about huge increases in spending.
ALI VELSHI: Senator, I’m going to ask you to restate that, I’ve never heard that in my life. Tell me again, what you just said.
SANTORUM: If you look at the report that came out on Friday, the President’s own economic advisers said that the jobs stimulus package actually created fewer jobs over the period of time, since the uh, since the stimulus package went in place than it did when they reported back in December. In other words, there’s 30 million less jobs as a result of the stimulus package.
VELSHI: That’s not a loss of jobs, Senator, that’s a smaller aggregation of jobs. You can’t go on a campaign, a national campaign with this kind of math Senator. It’s just incorrect…I know you’ve got a lot of interviews to do. You might want to check that math.
Here is the video of the exchange.
As ridiculous as Santorum appears during this argument with Velshi, Think Progress points out that Santorum just gave the Obama administration credit for completely solving the jobs crisis and is too ignorant to realize it.
Velshi is absolutely correct that Santorum needs to check his math, but he missed the huge problem with Santorum’s numbers. The entire American civilian labor force is about 153 million people. There are currently 13.9 million people unemployed. If the Obama administration had created 240 to 280 million jobs, the unemployment crisis would have been solved several times over, and America would have so many jobs that it would need to start employing workers from all over the world just to fill all the available positions.
So either Barack Obama is the greatest President in American history, and can solve economic problems with a wave of his hand, or Rick Santorum is an under educated douchebag.
Sadly it appears the latter is more likely.
(Though to be fair, if we give him a second term in office Obama just might prove to be the former as well. I still have hope.)
Tricky Rick was probably thinking of man sex with dogs and got confused as he does so often.
ReplyDeleteDid this guy even take math? Speaking of math.....
ReplyDeleteSarah's tiny team faking attendance numbers for her "movie" is getting attention LOL at usnews.com.
http://www.usnews.com/news/washington-whispers/articles/2011/07/05/palins-team-urges-big-crowds-at-the-undefeated?msg=1
The most wonderful thing a bout this exchange is that a member of the media actually QUESTIONED a Republican candidate on the use of missinformation.
ReplyDeleteI usually end up laughing a bit as I read your posts--no matter how upset or bitter I'm feeling about an issue you have a gift for putting in a little dig, turn of phrase, whatever, that eases it a little, makes me feel a little less stressed about it all. So I snicker at your "either/or" near the end of the post. Of course, I think it's maybe more of an "and."
ReplyDeleteBets on which of the clown in the GOP primary race will be the first to whine that they're pullin' a Palin and won't talk to the press ay more?
ReplyDeleteI'm from Santorum's state of PA, and let me tell you, definitely douche bag.
ReplyDeleteTwenty, thirty years ago, this would have been an SNL spoof. Can you fucking believe this is really happening? A candidate for president this idiotic actually garners interviews on the nation's most well-known news outlet?
ReplyDeleteSilly CNN, don't you know Rick is using God's math which involves miracles and faith and stuff.
ReplyDeleteObama uses Satan's math. In fact, I think he double majored in Satan's math and Satan's political science.
Either that or Rick Santorum is a complete deluded moron. Yeah, I'm going with that.
Oh my. Australia thinks the Palin women are "silly poofs" at the bookstore.
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Reminds me of what Mark Salter said about Santorum a couple of months back:
ReplyDelete"Ron Paul may be the wackiest candidate in the GOP field. But for pure, blind stupidity nobody beats Santorum. In my 20 years in the Senate, I never met a dumber member, which he reminded me of today."
Salter is a former McCain aide who said this in response to Santorum's suggestion that John McCain didn't understand torture.
Sarah Palin in tears as husband rages over Hollywood stars ripping her in new film
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin was reduced to tears after her husband flew into a rage over her new movie The Undefeated, sources say.
The former Alaska Governor and possible Presidential contender cried after watching Hollywood stars take pot shots at her in the 'documentary'.
Insiders say Mrs Palin's husband, 'First Dude' Todd Palin is angry and attacked her for cooperating with the project.
One political analyst believes the film could ruin a possible White House run.
An insider told the National Enquirer: 'Sarah was brought to tears and Todd was livid after they saw the movie with a crowd of supporters in Iowa.'
'Todd said the film is going to give Sarah's enemies fresh ammunition to destroy her as she considers running for president.
'He told Sarah that she was beyond naive for walking into an ambush like that.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news
/article-2011829/The-Undefeated-Sarah-Palin-tears-Hollywood-
stars-ripping-new-film.html
Also, how does 280,000,000 minus 240,000,000 equal 30,000,000?
ReplyDeleteSo much stupid math from Santorum's mouth, it's hard to keep track of it all.
"Uneducated Douchebag" it is!
ReplyDeleteIt fits his "Google" problem, and I imagine he finds the device quite useful. The man is a blithering homophobic idiot.
OT I hope Palin organizations get major publicity for scheming to buy up tickets to manufacture false impressions.
ReplyDeleteBristol's book is not selling well despite her appearances on major news shows, radio and soon on The View. Why does she need to paint Meghan McCain black so she looks white by contrast?
Here is another difference in their families: the McCains did not have a pregnant teen drop out shacking up nor a faux engagement. They actually own decent clothing and no truant kids.
Gryphen, why does everyone always assume the under educated are douchebags? It's an unfair stereotype and I feel Rick "Google Me!!" Santorum is proving that the educated can be masterful douchebags in a class all their own.
ReplyDeleteLighten up on Santorum, will ya? His hapless campaign is experiencing a frothy mixture of problems - his own intellectual inadequacies and self-righteous homophobia are just two examples - and your snarky comments arent helping one bit!! Hell, he was soundly rejected in his last bid for re-election by his own state's electorate. Give him a break!
(And remember, when you capitalize the "S" in Santorum, you're referring to the douchebag running for president, not the... other thing.)
What's with the woman in the video? Why is she acting like she's all uncomfortable that the man is rightfully expressing disbelief at Santorum? She's actually putting her arm across the man to make him be quiet.
ReplyDeleteHis kids are home schooled.
ReplyDeleteFeel really sorry for them.
Its hard to take him seriously, especially when you google his name...lol..
ReplyDeleteWhoever did that is a genius!
I helped vote Santorum out as a Pennsylvania voter when we got rid of him. Fuzzy math isn't his only problem.
ReplyDeleteHe was almost as much an embarrassment to Pennsylvania as Her Heinous is to Alaska.
His idiocy know no bounds and he tried to stick a cash starved school district for the cyber educations of his children who lived with him in Virginia while he rented out his house in PA.
Let's see: uniformed------check
grifter--------check
bigot----------check
ass hole-------check
definitely a Republican shill.
Santorum is an ass! I need vacation from these trolls.
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http://www.fhtmca.com/2539
Heh. Couldn't happen to a more deserving douchebag.
ReplyDeleteRachel Maddow had some fun with Santorum a few weeks ago:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908//vp/43200959#43200959
It involves a newspaper headline that says "Dog pee can't stop Santorum." Rachel enjoyed it immensely. :D
Gryphen, I have hope as well. Remember that if he gets a second term, Pres. O. will be less inclined to worry about re-election and being a fair human to the unfairly subhuman GOPers. If we have both the House and Senate, who knows what will be able to get done--that WE want to get done.
ReplyDeleteBTW, OT and speaking about those overgrown, overfed playground bullies (including the king of them all, Andrew Breitbart)--according to HuffPo, they're currently trying to crash Obama's Twitter Town Hall this afternoon with tweets of their own. If anyone here is participating or on Twitter, try and direct rebuttals to "Boner" & Co. re: what THEY'RE doing for the country--make 'em look like the effin' morons they are!
Your previous post was the best. But this one is not so perfect.
ReplyDeleteHT to Anon @7:09--
ReplyDeleteWell, you know this story has to be faked, because there was an earlier story that Tawd & Mrs. Tawd previewed the "documentary" in that fancy movie-watching room in their new AZ digs.
Besides, if there was any crying, it probably wasn't the missus. They have cans in AZ, you know.
I think Rick must have been homeskooled. There is no chapter on math in the bible ya know.
ReplyDeleteI wish as (I believe others may) you should consider doing an internet "talk radio" show. You have a gift for words, you never met a lie you couldn't factual 00refute (maybe the except babygate one), your love for the truth and you speak what is on the minds of so many not only in Alaska but the rest of the country. I hope you would consider it. It would be such a benefit to and for so many.
ReplyDeleteSo Gryphen are you really quoted in this weeks National Enquirer about Sarah's movie?
ReplyDeleteWhy is he still called "senator"? He LOST his last election, so he is nw a private citizen. These "interviewers" need to call a spade a spade, or a loser a loser, not still address them by what USED to be their title. Same with $carah.
ReplyDeleteThey hate the stimulus, but if they really loved Capitalism they would realize the stimulus should have been bigger. When the economy does not have enough jobs or pay is too low to fund the economy there is only one other option to get it going, the government. They did a whimpy stimulus for fear of people like Santorum.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDelete...Bristol's book is not selling well despite her appearances on major news shows, radio and soon on The View. Why does she need to paint Meghan McCain black so she looks white by contrast?
7:33 AM
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Because she, like her mother, believes that the way to raise yourself higher is to knock other people down, rather than do the hard work of climbing up by way of your own actual achievements.
Did anyone else see the Ed Schulz show on MSNBC last night, where he featured Rick Santorum as the subject of Psycho Talk for these very same remarks? I love the way he holds these GOP clowns accountable for every stupid, ignorant, and backward remark that comes from their mouths.
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50 people is all Bristol can sucker in the reddest city in the reddest state. loving it. some scary closeups of her face too.
O/T
ReplyDeleteJesse Griffin, who runs the Alaska-based website theimmoralminority.blogspot.com, told the Enquirer: 'Sarah Palin blasts the Hollywood elite as horrible people, but there's a danger voters will laugh at the jokes celebrities make about her in the movie.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news
/article-2011829/The-Undefeated
-Sarah-Palin-tears-Hollywood-stars
-ripping-new-film.html
An education wouldn't help someone like Rick Santorum. What he said is just plain stupidity.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it be fun to watch Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann AND Rick Santorum in a debate? It would draw huge ratings and the late night comics would have material for ... 280,000,000 shows.
Sharon1943
The salient point for me is why the hell doesn't the media ask Palin these same type of explain-it-to-me questions? I don't care that she's too cowardly to actually sit for an interview. When the media reports on her phoney-baloney tweets, FB notes, or Fox appearances, they should finish the segment with these same types of questions/comments. Just the other day I saw Bachmann getting grilled on CNN over one of her wildly inaccurate statements. Why is Sarah Palin so special that she gets by with lies and stupidity??
ReplyDeleteBeldar@7:33, please, I'm eating lunch here.
ReplyDeleteTo state over and over that 200 plus million jobs were or were not created identifies Santorum as an idiot. His research was so poorly done that it is clear he can not handle the simplest of tasks.
ReplyDeleteI would not hire this guy to flip hamburgers, and yet this is what passes for a Presidential candidate in this TeaBag era we are living in.
Our political debate needs to be elevated by keeping idiots like Santorum and Bachmann and Palin out of it. They don't belong there.
Rick Santorum is an idiot; and to think he's the father of 7 children. Sure hope the apple falls far from his tree, or those kids are doomed.
ReplyDeleteWhen Santorum stupidly said John McCain didn't understand torture, McCain's old advisor Mark Salter said that Santorum in his 20 years in the Senate, had never met a dumber member.
That's an understatement.
Considering our population is around 300 million, 240 mil or 280 mil should have rung the bells in Santorum's tiny brain that he was off a *little* bit!
rofl
OMG, how scary it is to know there are some really dumb people who lack critical thinking skills running for the most powerful position on earth!
I wouldn't want me in that job, & I think I'm a bit smarter & saner than these goof-balls.
Thankfully Democrats appreciate intelligence & sanity.
Photos of Bristol signing books posted on this website
ReplyDeletehttp://blog.al.com/spotnews
(direct link posted by someone above, is incomplete so look for Bristol story on this site)
Anyway, I feel sure that she is now modeling her facial expressions and demeanor after those infamous Kardashian sisters. She's mastering that soft and innocent, yet come-hither use of her eyes. She looks very different and it's not just the surgery. I think she adopted the Kardashian sweet, but brain-dead model to "class it up".
I look forward to the day they all go away.
Here's an idea, how about talking heads (and voting Americans) start questioning a candidate's math, philosophy, and statements not intended to be factual?
ReplyDeleteGoogle Santorum...
ReplyDeleteI can believe that Ricky is indeed concerned about President Obama's “stimulus package.” He's terrified of it. He’s desperately afraid that by comparison his own package would look insignificant and puny.
ReplyDeleteI’ve come to believe that the most likely explanation for the exceedingly irrational batshit crazy opposition that many GOP white males have to our confident, successful black president can be summed up in two words: PENIS ENVY.
They buy into that racist bullshit notion of the “well hung black man” and secretly wonder if it’s true. They seem to have a profound need for us to all understand that they really are manly macho men whose balls are so big that they sling them over their shoulder before going out to do manly things.
Ricky’s deepest, darkest nightmare? If Obama, doing his best Sheriff Bart/Cleavon Little imitation from “Blazing Saddles” says:
“Excuse me while I whip this out.”
Ricky is a tight assed, sexually repressed adolescent who alternately suffers from delusions of grandeur and a profound sense of inadequacy. He is both afraid of and curious to find out about the true nature of that “stimulus package.”
I’ve also always suspected that Santorum’s overt public homophobic witch hunts merely serve to make sure that he stays deep, deep, deep in the closet. Yet, still those yearnings make his loins burn with desire. To keep the “Blazing Saddles” theme going, I can just image Santorum, doing his best Lili von Shtupp:
“Oh, it's twue. It's twue. It's twue, it's twue!”
O/T: On today's Democracy Now Amy Goodman interviewed Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in London in front of a crowd of 1800 people. When Sarah Palin's name was mentioned by Assange, the crowd started laughing--at the mere mention of her name! Assange went on to say that Palin criticized his grammar in a statement she made about him which of course brought on more laughter. It seems Ms. Palin is something of a joke in London. You can find it on democracynow.org. The interview is long, but you'll find the reference near the beginning of today's interview (part 2) where Amy starts talking about Newt Gringrich.
ReplyDeleteCan anyone find the statement Palin made about Assange's misuse of the English language. That would be priceless! A tweet perhaps, or on Faux?
Stella Guadalupe
I think there may be a decimal point in there that he failed to see. oh well. multiply the numbers all by 100. close enough.
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WHAT AN IDIOT! Really it is unbelievable that he keeps arguing with. Ali Velshi seems very smart to me. What Rick is saying is absolutely incorrect and to argue about it makes him look like a big buffoon. I have always thought he was a dim witted dolt anyhow. And the comment from Mark Salter on Anon 7:06 post is right on.
ReplyDeleteWhat a group the Republicans have to choose from.
Former V.P. Dan Quale's son Ben was pretty bad at math too, but he still managed to get elected to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
ReplyDeletehttp://wonkette.com/423537/ben-quayle-takes-down-video-because-all-that-math-was-wrong
Lesson of the story? Santorum is going to lose badly in the primary anyway.
Somehow, I think these were deliberate mistakes. These politicians trying to identify themselves with the regular folk by acting like Jethro Bodine make me weep for the future. The dumbing down of America is progressing at a fast pace. Grammar, math, science and history are now considered expendable. "Elite" is a derogatory term.
ReplyDeleteHow do these politicians expect us to compete with the rest of the world when they're encouraging this ignorance? It's no wonder so many people kept their kids home from school to keep them from being "indoctrinated" by Obama's twisted ideas of working hard on their education.
I recall reading a graduation speech given by Todd Palin. I couldn't find a link, but he basically said the graduates should learn a trade and work on the slope, and not bother with college.
I have to admit that I went to an excellent vocational high school that taught computer science, which was enough to get my foot in the door, and I have no regrets about not going to college.
I'm no leader, though. Any leader who would discourage education does not have the best interests of the country or its citizens in mind. It's just plain sinister.
It's prety obvious why Rick "Google Me" Santorum is in the race. His internal polling shows 236% of the people want him as President.
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