........Uhuh. :\

It's still racist against blah people, though.

To me it didn't sound like he said "black." It sounds like he sort of got "better" and "lives" kind of jumbled up. So I'll believe his explanation... and I hate Rick "Santorum" Santorum.

He knows it came out, maybe it slipped out, who knows. Its just the kind of racist term you throw onto an already (secretly) racist argument to let people know you're *wink* *wink* essentially a racist as well.

Only I don't think he actually is "racist" in the original sense of the term, he just exploits racist memes and tropes to align himself with ignorant people that actually are and feel motivated by the emotions that racism and hatred bring.

I said, "Isn't it a lovely day." You really need to learn to listen!!!

It is funny because Santorum says "I use the term African American far more than I use the term black."

Then in the same sentence and soon after (3X) he says we have "two historically black colleges in my State."

I guess the person to ask what Santorum said is the African-American guy standing behind him in the majority white audience that he was addressing when he made the comment. That guy was holding a mic on Santorum and had earphones on to monitor the audio.

Anyhow the coverage of this may lose some votes for Santorum but will probably gain him far more than he loses. God Bless America.

... an old TV show on FOX that had a puppet character (modeled after Sesame Street) named Count Blah. The Count couldn't finish a sentence or a phrase without the word "blah." So Inner Santorum is emulating the count. That's his excuse.

Pathetic racist asshole should have simply stuck with his bigotry....who the Hell did he think voted for him Tuesday?

The clip can be seen here

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/03/rick...

It really is interesting to me how the audience breaks out in applause and reassurance as he completes the racist argument. This is so similar to all the other sad moments that the right wing of our politics has sunken to this election season. Remember the gay soldier? Or what about clapping at the idea that somebody might die from not having health care.

They are clapping because they aren't just willing to accept the sad social consequences of their "political" beliefs, they see it as a sort of social purification, a cleansing that is both moral and ethical, something even God has willed. This is what lends itself to that kind of violent thinking, that kind of ends-justify-the-means social homicide that is worshiped as a kind of 'discipline'.

Applauding the impacts; the innocent and unfortunate poor being dying because of no health insurance, booing gay service members - the audience is applauding and reaffirming their core beliefs in exclusion and bigotry.

When they nod at the end of the argument, the mental process might be: oh, hes talking about black people.... that's not gonna end great. As Santorum ties the racist language to the core of "libertarian" principles, that of pulling oneself up by their own bootstraps, everybody sees that it's not only good "economic sense" to vote Republican, but its the best way to keep blacks and browns down.

Like, "I didn't say N****s, I said BIGGERS, you know, like giant people. That's the ticket. My mouth sometimes seems to form an N instead of a B because I'm occasionally infused by the love of God during the day and it affects my mouth muscles.

I think Santorum is a terrible candidate but this story is ridiculous. He jumbled 'lives' and 'people.' He says "I don't want to make li__ peoples lives..." He forgot the word "people's" and immediately stopped saying "lives" to insert it and once doing so, continued on.

Now, I don't know why he is saying he said "blah." My guess is that he forgot what he said and now is scared witless this is going to be turned into a non-event event (which it clearly seems to be).

But listen to the clip several times and you can see he did jumble words

Does Jon Stewart send Santorum a check for writing the Daily Show?

Such horseshit from a man who will never, EVER be president.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up4LTKxe0PA

Santorum says his proof is he says "african american" more often than "black people".

but who says "blah people" more often than "black people"?

What's next for lil Ricky?

Santorum - and the GOP in general - attempt to frame Obama's economic policies as the "redistribution of wealth" FROM *successful* Americans TO those who haven't earned it

First Obama wants to steal their wealth and give it to his friends "the blacks" (or blahs!) ..

Now it's OWS .. same meme .. different "undeserving undesirables" ..

Santorum rips Occupy Wall Street movement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRm4V0-63dY

I find it interesting that he believes it necessary to bullshit his way through... were he not a bigot to begin with, he'd have no problem saying "Yes, I said it, and, in hindsight, it was really a pretty dumb thing to say," dropping it and going on with other matters.... that he feels he needs to give this ridiculous non-explanation is very telling....

How many other times in an interview, a speech, or any other public outing has he used "blah" instead of the usual "er" "um" "ah".... how many people take a pause when they're speaking and say "blah" instead of the usual human placeholder sounds?

Spin, Ricky!!!! Spin!!!!

Me thinks that Rik doth protest too much! Even if he didn't say it, he still does suck! God , I am sure will help him speak better after many prayers. He/ She helps Tim Tebow pass better (HA!HA!)

The man said 'black' - I heard it clearly and it wasn't something I was waiting or expecting to hear. He was in Iowa and thought he could get away with it. He is NOT a complicated man.

Yes Bill. I said black people. I shouldn't have said it. I misspoke. Of course most of the people on welfare are white people.

As president I would like to get as many whites and blacks off of welfare as possible and back to work.

I apologize for the comment

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But of course there is no uproar over what he said in the Republican bubble he lives in....funny how the other candidates didn't jump on this. Maybe because they are not even trying to get the black vote anyway. H

He thinks he can try this "Oh. What I said was Blah" on Faux news, where many of those viewers are going to believe him, or simply don't have a problem with him implying black people are taking the white mans money.

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If he actually corrected himself, and then pointed out the facts, I would have some respect for this guy. But he is just another dishonest Right Wing Turd so that aint gonna happen.

If he can't own up to this, what is he gonna lie about if he gets elected.

A bad liar at that. No wonder his name now has the meaning it does.

He's racist, sexist and homophobic. But his biggest crime is that he thinks we're stupid.

They are certain that the biggest bill the U.S. pays every month is welfare and food stamps for minorities. They've never heard of the defense budget, corporate tax breaks, medicare fraud by rich doctors and nursing home operators. Nope. It's just those black folks eating up all their hard-earned tax dollars. So, when Rick denies this, there is always the wink and nod to the old white folks who support him. They know what he really meant and that he has to deny it to satisfy all that nasty liberal media.

Anybody want to bet that some of the dumb asshats in this crowd are on government assistance like Joe the fake plumber and Craig T. Nelson and see nothing hypocritical in it?

I have the distinct displeasure of living in white bread, suburban Philadelphia...not by choice, but by necessity. I can tell you that the vast majority of white breads that live here speak in the same "I'm not a racist" coded (and sometimes not so coded) language. My greatest fear is that this country is so polarized on every issue that someone like Santorum will slip through the cracks and end up at 1600 Penn Ave.

but I'll make the case definitive here. While "blah" and "black" are both spelled with the letter "a" when written, phonetically (i.e., the sound), the "a"s are different. The vowel sound in "blah" is like that represented in "hot" or "not;" the vowel sound in "black" is like that of "hat" or "cat." His vowel sound in that word is clearly one that matches the latter, so it's not at all feasible that he was saying "blah."

Again, not that there was any doubt that he's full of it. I firmly believe that he hesitated before saying that word because as it was forming in his head, he had an inkling that it might be a bad idea to say "black," but alas, it was already up the pipe.

... not to mention the miggers, wigaboos and torch bunkies.

We all know what he meant.

And he can kiss my sexy black, African-American ass, but he's probably too absorbed with gays to do even that. Rat Bastard.

President Santorum to Joint Chiefs: "Bomb the Iranians!"

Two hours later: "You did what? No, I wanted you to balm the Iranians. You know, like apply a poultice or something. I hardly ever use the word bomb. I usually say incendiary device. Well, look on the bright side. We probably incendiary deviced a few gay dog humpers.

I don't want people (plain and simple becasue lets face it we are all people)

Or you might say:
I don't want to make some peoples lives better by giving them somebody elses money...

Or you might say:
I don't want some peoples lives to get better by giving them other peoples money...

Or you might say:
Hey Frothy how come it was OK for you and your parents to take other peoples money when you were growing up in Pennsylvania:

Born to parents Aldo (1923-2011)[6][7] and Catherine Santorum (née Dughi, born 1918)[7] in Winchester, Virginia, Santorum was raised in Berkeley County, West Virginia and Butler County, Pennsylvania. His father was an Italian immigrant, originally from Riva del Garda, Italy;[6] his mother is of half-Italian and half-Irish descent.[8][9][10][11]

During his childhood, Santorum's parents worked at the VETERANS ADMINISTRATION (A GOVERNMENT TAX PAYER FUNDED BRANCH OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT)(VA) Hospital in Butler with the family living at the VA hospital post. His father became licensed as a clinical psychologist in August 1974.[12

Usually I say African American ......but when I'm with my GODD OLD buddies you know my Klandestine buddies well then all bets are off if you know what I mean wink wink nudge nudge....

I want my baby back...

When interviewed at Camp Blah Head, Rick Perry said "I have no reason to doubt Frothy Mixture".