Santorum 1. The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex. 2. Senator Rick Santorum.(It's actually a link to spreadingsantorum.com, a site created by sex columnist Dan Savage in response to Santorum's likening of homosexuality to pedophilia and bestiality.)
Google declined, which is its normal response to requests to modify its results.
What really disturbs me about Santorum's request is that he apparently has no idea how search engines such as Google work. (Incidentally, one gets the same result looking for "Santorum" on most, if not all, of the most popular search sites.) These are tools that practically everyone who uses the internet uses frequently. To me it means Santorum is out of touch with how most Americans, whom he wants to lead, actually function. It reminds me how President Bush the First had no idea supermarkets used laser scanners to ring up people's groceries.
Also I am amused by this quote of Santorum's:
If you're a responsible business, you don't let things like that happen in your business that have an impact on the country.If he really thinks this, he should also be criticizing all of the businesses that build plants in foreign countries or otherwise outsource the jobs of Americans.
(BTW, since I do have some idea of how search engines work, I know very well that my linking to Savage's site, and not linking to Santorum's campaign site, helps keep Savage's one on the top of Google's listings. Take that, homophobe Santorum.)
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I love how Dan Savage and those who have helped by linking have irrevocably linked Rick Santorum's name to that hilarious definition.
Given that Santorum is out of touch about so many, many things, I guess it's not surprising that he doesn't have a clue how search engines work.
Of course, I guess I'm out of touch in many ways, too. How a dim bulb like Santorum could have any supporters or obtain campaign contributions is a major puzzle to me.
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