{"id":5064,"date":"2011-06-10T00:14:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T07:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5064"},"modified":"2011-06-10T00:14:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T07:14:39","slug":"this-article-is-not-about-anthony-weiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/10\/this-article-is-not-about-anthony-weiner\/","title":{"rendered":"This Article Is Not About Anthony Weiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That\u2019s right, it\u2019s not about him at all.&#160; It\u2019s not about Weiner\u2019s Weiner.&#160; It\u2019s not even about Boehner\u2019s Boehner, or any wayward appendage.&#160; It is not intended to generate discussion on any of the above.&#160; Frankly, I\u2019m out of gas on the subject.&#160; It is intended only to demonstrate the hypocrisy and dishonesty of one presidential candidate, the Republican \u201cfamily values\u201d guy, who equated a committed marriage between gay people with bestiality, Rick \u201cman on dog\u201d Santorum.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"SantorumHat\" border=\"0\" alt=\"SantorumHat\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SantorumHat.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"275\" \/>It was wrong for Congressman Anthony Weiner to lie about his actions and to try to bully the media who confronted him, presidential candidate Rick Santorum said in Iowa today.<\/p>\n<p>Santorum said \u201ccharacter matters,\u201d especially for politicians in a place of public trust.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHad I been put in that position,\u201d Santorum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, said during a live radio interview on WHO Newsradio 1040 AM this morning, \u201cfor the sake of my family and the sake of whatever dignity I would have had remain, <strong>I would\u2019ve said \u2018I don\u2019t deserve to stay in a place of public trust<\/strong>. And I shouldn\u2019t be leading this country. I should be getting my life together and getting my family back together and doing what I need to do to get my life right.\u2019\u201d\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/caucuses.desmoinesregister.com\/2011\/06\/07\/character-matters-rick-santorum-says-about-rep-weiner-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Des Moines Register<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Would he really, now?&#160; Well, the truth is, he hasn\u2019t been caught, so I have no direct dirt to dispute his claim, but the indirect dirt is compelling.&#160; His involvement in the John Ensign scandal reveals what his true feelings in such matters are, and they have nothing to do with wives, families, dignity or integrity.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Rachel Maddow exposed this walking excrement.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc296b9b\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" target=\"_blank\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=43348762^0^323959&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc296b9b\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=43348762^0^323959&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; width: 592px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #999; font-size: 11px\">Visit msnbc.com for <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a>, <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" target=\"_blank\">world news<\/a>, and <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" target=\"_blank\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In case you ask I do know the definition of santorum.&#160; It\u2019s too generous for him.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s right, it\u2019s not about him at all.&#160; It\u2019s not about Weiner\u2019s Weiner.&#160; It\u2019s not even about Boehner\u2019s Boehner, or any wayward appendage.&#160; It is not intended to generate discussion on any of the above.&#160; Frankly, I\u2019m out of gas on the subject.&#160; It is intended only to demonstrate the hypocrisy and dishonesty of one <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/10\/this-article-is-not-about-anthony-weiner\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}