Posted on 03/30/2012 10:43:07 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Did Rick Santorum really just come within a few micro-seconds of calling America's first ever black president a "******"?
Of course not, comes the rational response. Apart from the fact that it would instantly be a campaign-killing gaffe, it would be in direct opposition to the Santorum image we have seen now for months. This is the man who is almost two goody-two-shoes to be real. He has a large and loving family. He may be ultra-conservative, but he also appears to be the sort of suburban dad who would be more likely to say "Aw, shucks" and "Jeepers creepers" rather than deploy the most offensive word in the English language. He wears sweater vests!
But about that video. What is going on there?
Santorum was speaking at a rally in Janesville, Wisconsin, still locked in the ferocious nomination battle with Mitt Romney and still desperate to become the true conservative standard-bearer of the Republican party.
"We know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like – the anti-war government nig …" he seems to say, then suddenly stopping, and changing tack to add: "America was a source for division around the world, that what we were doing was wrong."
It is hard to think of exactly what word Santorum was about to use. What word beginning with "nig-" comes naturally after government? It has been suggested he was trying to say "-nik", as in peacenik or beatnik. That is possible. Or perhaps, it was some non-specific verbal tic: a random vowel-consonent flub.
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I do not like Saintorum and I will refuse to vote for the punk.
However, this claim and the video is unmitigated BULL S-—.
The sooner the libs starve to death, the better off we will all be.
According to Zimmerman standards, Obama is White Black. We have yet to have the 1st black president.
5, 4, 3, 2...
Nope.
[I heard “nic”. Maybe it was just a random stray syllable.]
I hate those random stray syllables! They do that all the time!
A six star president? That would be quite an endorsement. I thought the scale only went to five.
Negro?
Why did you ping me to this garbage? Is this your idea of a news story? Do me a favor, halfwit, ping somebody else or go play in heavy traffic. lol
This video has been edited. Can’t trust it.
This isn’t the first time the media has tried to smear Santorum with false charges of racism, and it probably won’t be the last.
What’s next? Is the media going to hirer psychics that can determine when someone is thinking about saying the N-word?
Aw, you’re the best! And thanks for giving me far more credit for wit than anyone else does; that’s adorable!
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