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Democrats_win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-21-06 12:29 PM
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ITMFA! From the man who made santorum a household word.
ITMFA = impeach the motherf***** already!

Read ahead and see why im not providing a link--you'll need to google Dan Savage.

"While I get all the credit for launching santorum-the-substance, it was a reader who suggested a contest, and another reader who suggested the winning definition. It was my readers who made Rick Santorum what he is today—an international laughing stock. So I put it to those same readers: Should Savage Love get behind a campaign to popularize ITMFA? Would you wear buttons? T-shirts? Lapel pins? Would you help push the website to number one on Google? Would you put ITMFA bumper stickers on your cars?"

The Economist magazine publicized the santorum word and wrote a letter to Dan:

Dear Dan Savage: I was flattered to hear that you and your readers had picked up our reference to santorum in the Economist....

Our readership is younger than that of other current-affairs or business publications, and I like to think that, like us writers, they are thoughtful, intelligent folk. But you were right: It is not only gay activists who use the term santorum in that way. Maybe being edited in London explains why we got that wrong.

Bill Emmott, Editor

The Economist, London




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