“I’m getting letters from people who think that the neologism came first — [that] this was actually what ‘santorum’ meant and that Santorum was burdened with this unfortunate last name and why didn’t he change his name before he ran for president.”
– “Savage Love” syndicated columnist Dan Savage on Wednesday night’s edition of “Countdown with Keith Olbermann.” In 2003, after Sen. Rick Santorum equated homosexuality to beastiality, Savage created a new, nasty definition for “santorum” that stayed atop the Google rankings until recently, giving the GOP presidential hopeful a “Google Problem.”
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