# Stupid Santorumisms **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 20, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417 "2012-02-20T14:10:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/261 "2012-03-16T00:08:56Z")
I wish I’d posted that. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/262 "2012-03-16T03:32:56Z")
NOW he wants to [ban pornography](http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshbarro/2012/03/15/santorum-promises-broad-war-on-porn/) by bringing obscenity cases against pornographic companies including cable and satellite providers. > [@](#): > > **Ricky-poo:** “America is suffering a pandemic of harm from pornography. Pornography is toxic to marriages and relationships. It contributes to misogyny and violence against women. It is a contributing factor to prostitution and sex trafficking." Next we’ll hear about how every home should have an altar. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/263 "2012-03-16T13:22:13Z")
And here’s another item on the ever-growing list of things Santorum wants to ban: [teleprompters](http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rick-santorums-war-on-teleprompters/2012/03/12/gIQAJCvv7R_story.html). > [@](#): > > "I’ve always believed that when you run for president of the United States,” Santorum recently said in Mississippi, “it should be illegal to read off a teleprompter, because all you’re doing is reading someone else’s words to people.” What happened to the Republicans who wanted less government? ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/264 "2012-03-16T16:13:51Z")
> [@](#): > > all you’re doing is reading someone else’s words to people Yeah, when someone quotes something someone else wrote down to me, I’ll inform them that it should be illegal. That way they have to rely on making shit up like Santorum instead of religion. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/265 "2012-03-16T16:21:21Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > NOW he wants to [ban pornography](http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshbarro/2012/03/15/santorum-promises-broad-war-on-porn/) History tells us this statement just tripled the odds he will be spotted leaving a pornography store after a 30-45 minute visit. Unfortunately for him, voting is done in private (Pity people can’t also pray in private like Jesus told 'em) like proably 99% of porno viewing. It would be fun to get 10,000 random Americans to vote on the issue and see how the actual votes compare to their spoken opinions on the matter. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/266 "2012-03-16T16:35:25Z")
It’s a savvy move. Only a tiny number of Americans like looking at porn. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/267 "2012-03-16T16:37:26Z")
Well, on the positive side the internet will run a whole lot faster once 90% of its content is gone. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/268 "2012-03-16T16:47:28Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > [Rick on Puerto Rican statehood](http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/14/us-usa-campaign-puertorico-idUSBRE82D16Z20120314): > Wrong again, Rick. Tell me this, if English wasn’t meant to be the official language of America, then why did God write the Bible in English? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/269 "2012-03-16T19:41:16Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > NOW he wants to [ban pornography](http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshbarro/2012/03/15/santorum-promises-broad-war-on-porn/) by bringing obscenity cases against pornographic companies including cable and satellite providers. I haven’t gotten my porn from TV since I was 12 years old and trying to catch a corner of a boob around all the scrambles. > [@Ludovic](#): > > Tell me this, if English wasn’t meant to be the official language of America, then why did God write the Bible in English? That’s “Olde” English to be precise. The language God spoke. [But he didn’t speak this language](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Bible). ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/270 "2012-03-16T21:12:41Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > Well, on the positive side the internet will run a whole lot faster once 90% of its content is gone. Quoth _House_ _M.D._, if they took the porn off the internet, there would only be one website left and it would be called www. [bringbacktheporn.com](http://bringbacktheporn.com) ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/271 "2012-03-16T22:58:43Z")
Quick, somebody buy that domain now. It’ll go fast! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2012, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/272 "2012-03-17T00:44:57Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Quoth _House_ _M.D._, if they took the porn off the internet, there would only be one website left and it would be called www. [bringbacktheporn.com](http://bringbacktheporn.com) This is not only true, it also made me Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2012, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/273 "2012-03-17T01:10:39Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Santorum to Puerto Rico: Speak English if you want statehood:](http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/14/us-usa-campaign-puertorico-idUSBRE82D16Z20120314) > > There are, I suppose, good arguments one might make against statehood for a non-English-speaking-majority territory – if nothing else, it would break all precedent, from the beginning of the Republic; and it would require re-examination and redefinition of what the U.S. is, what it is to be American, what is our national culture and what are its outer limits, and whether a territory/people can ever be part of it that does not have a Britain-derived culture and never will, that, as a whole, will never assimilate to the larger American culture as individual immigrants to the mainland eventually do. Louisiana had a non-English-speaking-majority when it was admitted as a state ([http://www.louisianabicentennial2012.com/page.php?page=Louisiana-Statehood-History](http://www.louisianabicentennial2012.com/page.php?page=Louisiana-Statehood-History)). ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/274 "2012-03-17T02:08:16Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > This is not only true, it also made me Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there. Pornography, political advertising, religious fundamentalism, spam, and your deuced “quarry” posts, are among the greatest challenges to the concept of free speech. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2012, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/275 "2012-03-17T03:04:35Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > [Rick on Puerto Rican statehood](http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/14/us-usa-campaign-puertorico-idUSBRE82D16Z20120314): > Wrong again, Rick. One thing he misses is that once a state is a state, that is once it’s admitted and has seated a delegation in Congress, it can\* then\* proceed to set up whatever official languages it feels like for their everyday business. For practical reasons of course any state will use English when dealing with the Feds and other states. Guess what: _ **We do that already.** _ And his coming here and telling it to our faces is not really brave, it’s a cheap way to score points with his reactionary followers at home, knowing that we have no Electoral Votes to punish him with later. In any case there’s a a difference between mandating\* a common language of communication\* and mandating _cultural assimilation itself_ – you can implement the former but the latter either happens or it doesn’t and there’s little you can do about it. Cultural assimilation as a precondition for statehood has never really been tested from a _modern_ US perspective – mostly because at the time 35 of the post-13 states were admitted (1790s to 1910s) it was a matter of course that English-speaking White settlers would be in charge and who cared what the previous populations thought. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2012, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/276 "2012-03-17T03:50:46Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > And here’s another item on the ever-growing list of things Santorum wants to ban: [teleprompters](http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rick-santorums-war-on-teleprompters/2012/03/12/gIQAJCvv7R_story.html). > > > [@](#): > > > > "I’ve always believed that when you run for president of the United States,” Santorum recently said in Mississippi, “it should be illegal to read off a teleprompter, because all you’re doing is reading someone else’s words to people.” > > What happened to the Republicans who wanted less government? When I was a young Catholic school boy, the nuns used to have a daily inspections, where the boys were all expected to be able to produce a comb and a handkerchief and the girls, a comb, handkerchief, and chapel veil. There were demerits for missing items, but I don’t seem to recall any particular reward for months of perfect compliance (not that I ever managed it). I imagine all a kid got out of it (besides a set of beneficial organizational habits) was a sort of smug self-satisfaction. Sen. Santorum’s quote above leads me to suspect that he had his comb and handkerchief EVERY DAY. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2012, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/277 "2012-03-17T04:30:46Z")
Well, a teleprompter only displays words from an author who is not the speaker using it, and there is no way a person can give a speech by memory unless he’s the creator. So it looks like a rock solid argument. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2012, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/278 "2012-03-17T12:25:19Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Well, a teleprompter only displays words from an author who is not the speaker using it, and there is no way a person can give a speech by memory unless he’s the creator. > > So it looks like a rock solid argument. Not to mention, there is absolutely no way whatsoever to read from a ghostwritten speech without a prompter. It’s just not done, and has never been done, nor will it ever be done. The current human technology doesn’t support it. We could if we had some form of flat, bright coloured medium that we could contrast with using dark pigments, and invented pictographic systems to convey meaning using said pigments ; but like the Philosopher’s Stone people have been talking about it for thousands of years without ever producing anything concrete. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/279 "2012-03-17T15:42:10Z")
Is this the place for funny Santorum headlines? I saw this on MSNBC today: “Porn industry to Rick Santorum: Butt out” ---
**Author:** ![Crackrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Crackrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crackrat)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/280 "2012-03-18T00:11:10Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Quoth _House_ _M.D._, if they took the porn off the internet, there would only be one website left and it would be called www. [bringbacktheporn.com](http://bringbacktheporn.com) Pretty sure that was actually [Dr. Cox from Scrubs.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_o8vYUU-jo) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417.md?page=15)