In regards to Rick Santorum’s “Google” problem:
From Wikipedia:
In an interview with the Associated Press on April 7, 2003, Santorum said there is a relationship between the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal and liberalism and relativism. He argued that moral relativism involves accepting any adult consensual behavior in the privacy of people’s homes, even if the behavior might otherwise be considered deviant. Santorum believes this attitude leads to an unhealthy culture.[3]
He said that, while he had no problem with homosexuality, he did have a problem with homosexual acts, “as I would with acts of other, what I would consider to be, acts outside of traditional heterosexual relationships. And that includes a variety of different acts, not just homosexual.” He continued:
” We have laws in states, like the one at the Supreme Court right now, that has sodomy laws and they were there for a purpose. Because, again, I would argue, they undermine the basic tenets of our society and the family. And if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does.”
He said he was arguing against any relationship other than marriage between a man and a woman, the basis in his view of a stable society: “That’s not to pick on homosexuality. It’s not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be.”
The result of that quote was sex columnist Dan Savage and his followers putting up the site spreadingsantorum.com that redefined the word “santorum” to refer to an unpleasant byproduct of anal sex. As more people posted links to spreadingsantorum.com on web sites, the higher spreadingsantorum.com rose to the top of search engine results when people Googled on “Rick Santorum”.
Every good idea on the internet gets repeated. Several months ago a story came out that Mitt Romney strapped his dog in an airtight box to the roof of his car for a family trip. The dog was terrified and defecated all over the car. Romney’s response was to pull over, hose down the car, hose down the dog, put the dog back in the box on the roof and to continue on.
Dog lovers, still enraged, have taken a page out of Dan Savage’s book and given Mitt Romeny his own “Google problem” with spreadingromney.com. The site redefines the word “romney” to mean “to defecate in terror” and the site points to Huffington Post article that re-broke the story. Enough people have clicked on spreadingromney.com and posted it to their sites to make it the 3rd result of all Google searches on “Romney”.
In the current age of super pacs and billionaires leading the election around by the nose for their own benefit, I really enjoy the democratic nature of these two gestures of disapproval. Ordinary people, can, for a moment stand toe-to-toe with the blue bloods to express ourselves.
