Spreading Santorum: Slick Rick's latest chart-topper

[marmar]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/06/rick-santorum-nelson-mandela_n_4398155.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000037





During an appearance on Fox News Thursday night, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) discussed the death of Nelson Mandela, saying the former South African president fought "great injustice" just like Republicans who are battling Obamacare.

"Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice and was willing to pay a huge price for that. That's the reason he's mourned today, because of that struggle that he performed," Santorum said. "But you're right, I mean, what he was advocating for was not necessarily the right answer, but he was fighting against some great injustice, and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people's lives, and Obamacare is front and center in that."

The statement, pointed out by Slate's Dave Weigel in a tweet Friday morning, came after Fox News host Bill O'Reilly claimed Mandela "was a great man, but he was a communist."

"I would never attack Nelson Mandela," O'Reilly said next.

[spanone]

1. would ricky spend 27 years in prison for his 'cause' ????

shit. stain.

[JaneyVee]

2. Comparing Obamacare to apartheid? Well that didn't take long.

[DallasNE]

7. From The Department Of The Predictable n/t

[lame54]

3. Yeah - it's the same thing

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Love the tie.

He looks like a huckstering TV preacher in that photo.

Which isn't too far from what he is, except he's crazier.

[surrealAmerican]

5. If idiocy was painful ...

... he'd be writhing on the floor. He doesn't even know what "justice" means.

[DallasNE]

6. Santorum, The "Great Injustice" Was The 40 Million Without Health Insurance

Not the legislation that enables those 40 million to find affordable insurance without the odious life time caps, pre-existing conditions that includes child birth and has been the leading cause of bankruptcy for decades. That is the injustice but even that injustice utterly pales with the injustice by faced Nelson Mandela. The world lost perhaps the greatest leader of the 20th century -- a true giant of a man.

[joeybee12]

8. Scum...nt

[jwirr]

9. This man is evidence that our political battle is not between old fashion conservatives and liberals

but between fascists and Democratic voters of all persuasions. I am ashamed to be white when this man talks.

[yellowcanine]

10. "I would make the argument that we have a great..." "Please proceed, Senator."

[HoosierCowboy]

11. Is there a merger coming

Between Fox News and the Comedy Channel?