{"id":181994,"date":"2016-01-21T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/21\/lose\/"},"modified":"2016-01-21T19:40:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T00:40:00","slug":"lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/21\/lose\/","title":{"rendered":"Lose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the last kiddie table debate, Rick &#8220;A Frothy Mixture&#8221; Santorum <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/rick-santorum-google-me\">suggested that debate watchers Google him<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum encouraged viewers to Google him in Thursday&#8217;s undercard Republican presidential debate, an unfortunate choice of words that reminded many of his search engine woes fueled by sex columnist Dan Savage.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;Go and Google Rick Santorum and Hillary Clinton you&#8217;ll see a five-minute debate. I&#8217;ll let you decide who won the debate,&#8221; he said during his closing statement. &#8220;I&#8217;ll tell you who won, I know I&#8217;m out of time, I&#8217;m going to take some of Rand Paul&#8217;s time here for a second.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The prompt recalled sex columnist Dan Savage&#8217;s retribution campaign against Santorum for his anti-gay remarks, when Savage asked readers to come up with an alternate definition for &#8220;santorum.&#8221; A highly NSFW entry rose to the top and has for years plagued top search engine results for Santorum&#8217;s name across sites.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you Google &#8220;Santorum&#8221;, you will find multiple references to, &#8220;<i>The frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex<\/i>,&#8221; a neologism coined by Dan Savage in the late 2003.<\/p>\n<p>If you are Rick Santorum, you should <b>NEVER<\/b> ask people to Google you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the last kiddie table debate, Rick &#8220;A Frothy Mixture&#8221; Santorum suggested that debate watchers Google him: Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum encouraged viewers to Google him in Thursday&#8217;s undercard Republican presidential debate, an unfortunate choice of words that reminded many of his search engine woes fueled by sex columnist Dan Savage.&#8220;Go and Google Rick &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[987,1130,978,977,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fail","category-language","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}