Rick Santorum - Stuck in 1985

http://tyrannyoftradition.com/2012/02/10/rick-santorum-declares-war-on-heavy-metal/

Rick Santorum has been on the offensive lately, but his target has not been Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney or even President Barack Obama. For the past week, Santorum has been using his campaign to take aim at an issue he feels to be the single most dangerous force in America today: Satanism in heavy metal. “If you listen to the radio today, many of these brand new, so-called heavy metal music bands like Black Sabbath, Venom, The WASP and Iron Maiden use satanic imagery to corrupt the minds of young people,” announced Santorum at a 10,000 dollar a plate sock-hop in Valdosta, Georgia on Thursday. Santorum’s popularity in the polls has grown substantially since he began speaking out against metal and its assault on traditional values. He has spent much of the past week in the Midwest encouraging young people to stay away from metal artists and listen to performers like Michael W. Smith and Pat Boone. In a recent Gallup Poll, 87 percent of Republican voters think that the biggest problem in America today is “the demented bloodlust of teenagers caused entirely by heavy metal music.” In the past, Santorum has accused heavy metal of being the cause of some of the worst crimes in American history including the attempt on the life of Ronald Reagan in 1981, 9/11 and the passage of Obama’s Health Care Bill. He stepped up his rhetoric in a speech on Wednesday when he implied that heavy metal is the cause of many forms of mental illness as well as lactose intolerance. It’s probably not a coincidence that since he began his crusade against metal that his poll numbers have been surging upwards. Picking out a small and unique group, singling them out as “other” and using them to frighten the masses is a proud tradition in American politics. However, many commentators believe that his call for metal internment camps goes too far. Santorum has openly advocated the forced re-education of metalheads. They would be forced to endure 30 days of non-stop “values based” music that promotes the American way of life as well as the free market. In order to leave, they will have to sing the chorus to at least one Celine Dion song. In response to Santorum’s metal onslaught, Mitt Romney officially denounced his earlier position of “tolerance towards all fans of extreme music”. This, in spite of the fact that GWAR played his inauguration as governor of Massachusetts back in 2003. But things have changed since 2003 and embracing heavy metal music is about as popular selling baby organs on Ebay or clubbing seals. Romney will need to begin pretending to be something else if he plans on facing Obama in the general election in November.

What an idiot.

I also like how all of the "brand new" bands he mentions have been around for 30 berkeleying years.

Hooray Jesus! Hooray Santorum! Hooray Dead Baby Jokes!

I smell a knockoff of "The Onion". No way is that a serious article.

Tom_Spangler wrote: I smell a knockoff of "The Onion". No way is that a serious article.

This.

Although, with statements like banning contraception by way of federal law............the guy is still WAY out there.

What an idiot

BRILLIANT!!!

Tom_Spangler wrote: I smell a knockoff of "The Onion". No way is that a serious article.

Can't be.

We'd need a time machine to censor the music he's allegedly worried about.

Tom_Spangler wrote: I smell a knockoff of "The Onion". No way is that a serious article.

Well you're no fun.

I don't like the guy either but this is a link to a blog, not a real news story.

I'd have thought the "heavy metal causes lactose intolerance" part would have made that obvious.

I don't buy it, plausible as it may be. If I were Rick Santorum, I'd want to pretend it was 1985, and that Google hadn't been invented yet.

Grizz wrote: I'd have thought the "heavy metal causes lactose intolerance" part would have made that obvious.

Whew! I was standing there with the fridge door open, staring at my cheese drawer, clutching my copy of "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son", and trying to make an impossible decision...

gamby wrote:

Tom_Spangler wrote: I smell a knockoff of "The Onion". No way is that a serious article.

Can't be. We'd need a time machine to censor the music he's allegedly worried about.

Here's one courtesy of Eddie, circa 1986

Well-played.

That was fantastic album art, wasn't it???

(great album, too)

Can't imagine how he'd feel about "Number Of The Beast"

i think Dee Snyder needs to craft a response to that article.. he pwned AlGore and the rest of that Senate panel that he testified in front of..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FbBpvoYKpc&feature=related

Given his horrifically misogynist, homophobic, and theocratic leanings, I'd say Ol' Frothy is stuck in 1185, not 1985. I know the article is satire but it would not surprise me at all if Santorum wasn't a fan of that damnable devil music.

stuart in mn wrote: I don't like the guy either but this is a link to a blog, not a real news story.

But blogs are news.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VCt726ZuQ8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

I have a Japanese pressed 'Somewhere in Time" LP.

I'm actually finding multiple sources writing about this. I thought it was a joke.

http://96xrocks.com/rick-santorum-says-heavy-metal-corrupts-the-minds-of-young-people-poll/

N Sperlo wrote: I'm actually finding multiple sources writing about this. I thought it was a joke. http://96xrocks.com/rick-santorum-says-heavy-metal-corrupts-the-minds-of-young-people-poll/

Well, if Chinese media and Congressmen can get fooled by The Onion, it wouldn't surprise me a radio station would be tricked by this blog post either.

Seriously, GWAR playing for Mitt Romney? Last I checked, GWAR's members are mostly apolitical. They would rather spray an effigy of Romney with (simulated) santorum in front of his face than play a set for him.

It was this type of thinking that turned off Pa. voters. The guy is trying WAAAAY too hard to be THE most conservative Republican to come down the pike in DECADES. Are there really enough voters out there that will fall for someone like this? Doesn't quite look like it.

In reply to RexSeven:

I was thinking along the same lines. Still got a good laugh out of it. Cant find much more on the subject.

integraguy wrote: Are there really enough voters out there that will fall for someone like this? Doesn't quite look like it.

No. Expect a second term for our current prez.

N Sperlo wrote: But blogs are news.

Blogs are editorials, not news. That's the whole problem - anyone can write a blog, and for some reason people seem to think everything they read on the Internet is true.

This story may or may not contain some facts, but the writer says this about their blog:

I don’t claim to have any real answers, but I do have a nearly constant stream of questions that I’d like to better understand. There will be some inconsistencies, oversimplifications and illogical arguments in the posts ahead, please understand that they come in the effort to more clearly comprehend what the meaning of this experience of being that I (and I assume others) are having.

"We should recognize, as conservatives and Tea Party folks, that we are not just wings of the Republican Party," Santorum said. "We are the Republican Party."

Uhhh... Yeah. That is a scary thought. I really with the religious right would just splinter off into their own party or something already.

it's a distraction for the real satanic bands...

http://youtu.be/PIEzDZDRvwo