Twice-failed-presidential-candidate-turned-CNN-commentator Rick Santorum was trending all day yesterday after video of him making racist remarks about Native Americans hit the internet.
The video was taken during a speech Santorum gave last Friday at a white supremacist rally Young America’s Foundation conference, during which he proudly stated that the culture of the United States was birthed by “Judeo-Christian” values.
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“We came here and created a blank slate. We birthed a nation from nothing,” he claimed. “I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes we have Native Americans, but candidly there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture.”
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Not long after that, gay sex columnist Dan Savage was also trending after he responded to Santorum’s remarks by sharing the video on Twitter, along with the caption: “The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex says what?”
The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex says what? https://t.co/rijdocZmLV
— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) April 26, 2021
And just like that, everyone was reminded of the nearly 20-year-old feud between the two men, which began back in 2003 when Savage held a content asking people to come up with a definition for the word “santorum” in response to the then-U.S. senator’s extreme antigay views.
The winning definition ended up being: “The frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.” Then Savage created a website, spreadingsantorum.com, to promote definition, which went on to become the top search result anytime a person googled “Rick Santorum.”
In 2011, Santorum discussed the issue, telling Raw Story, “There are foul people out there who do horrible things. It’s unfortunate some people thought it would be a big joke to make fun of my name.”
Here’s what people have been saying about Santorum’s anal sex problem coming back to haunt him this week…
Rick Santorum is trending, and once upon a time, rightfully, if you googled "santorum', my fellow old folks will remember what the first thing to come up was ("a frothy mix of…..")
— Howard ?. ??? (@HowardA_AtLaw) April 26, 2021
https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1386742231273517064
I love, love, love the fact that every time Rick Santorum says something criminally idiotic, @fakedansavage trends. Of course, this happens regularly because the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex always says something stupid.
— Rabih Alameddine (@rabihalameddine) April 26, 2021
It’s an insult to frothy lube & fecal matter to be equated with Rick Santorum.
— Frskywhskr (@frskywhskr) April 27, 2021
Many people are saying you can learn more about US history from the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex than you can from Rick Santorum.
— Donald J. Drumpf (@RealDonalDrumpf) April 26, 2021
https://twitter.com/edbott/status/1386824377715421190
He’s a frothy mix of bigotry and bullshit.
— Radman Peterly (@radpeterman) April 26, 2021
https://twitter.com/stairmaster1312/status/1386738243794739203
Frothy mixes of lube and fecal matter should sue Rick Santorum for damaging their good name.
— Andrew – Black Lives Matter (@andallya) April 27, 2021
Rick Santorum does not deserve a retort to his bullshit nonsense.
Instead, smile at remembering how a campaign by Dan Savage made his last name an infamous Google search.— Joshua “Daddy Apron” Berwald (@joshua_boe) April 26, 2021
Since video of Santorum’s racist remarks surfaced, people have been calling on CNN to drop him from its roster.
“Rick Santorum is an unhinged and embarrassing racist who disgraces CNN and any other media company that provides him a platform,” Fawn Sharp, president of the National Congress of American Indians, said in a statement. “Televising someone with his views on Native American genocide is fundamentally no different than putting an outright Nazi on television to justify the Holocaust.”
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Sharp then offered CNN an ultimatum: Fire Santorum or face a potential boycott from more than 500 tribal nations and all of their allies worldwide.
“Make your choice. Do you stand with white supremacists justifying Native American genocide, or do you stand with Native Americans?”
CNN has not responded to the controversy, although Santorum put out a statement yesterday claiming he “had no intention of minimizing or in any way devaluing Native American culture” when he minimized and devalued Native American culture.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Essie
He’s just dumb, that’s all. He has always been dumb. It doesn’t matter if CNN fires him or not, he will still be an idiot who doesn’t know (or care about) the history of the Americas or what White Europeans did to the people already here. Also, Fox will pick him up to bolster their roster of racists. Best to just ignore him, as much as possible.
P.S.: I don’t remember that Dan Savage thing because I didn’t pay attention to Santorum when he ran for Prez but that definition is just so good!!
LeBlevsez
Frothy doesn’t understand the genesis of the U.S. Constitution. Our democracy would not be what it is without the example of Native American laws and governments.
jackmister
Hahahaha! Love this story
tjack47
Too hot for a sweater vest?
Kangol2
Racist butt juice, yep, fits Santorum to a tee!
canadiankid
What a fool. How does he not realize there is no Native American culture ingrained in our society because when Europeans came over they didn’t allow them to practice their culture, they had to convert to Christianity or die. The Native Americans did try to fight back to save their culture and people but they didn’t have the same advancements in firearms and weapons and were easily bested. It’s a shame they weren’t able to send them back to the lands they came from and scare them off from ever travelling over here again.
cheks
This is not factually accurate for the US. The first european settlers were not on war ships or even retro-fitted cargo ships with artillery. If the natives wanted to kill them all, they could have.
The downfall of the natives when the first colonists arrived was disease. Disease wiped out entire populations and greatly reduced the numbers of natives overall.
You have to remember, were talking about the 1600s. At the time of arrival, the native population vastly outnumbered the settlers and again, could have simply slaughtered them and called it day. Or just let them starve in the winter. But they didn’t.
Not that native tribes were a bastion of peace and loving kindness. They were still humans, and did what humans do. Kill things and decimate animal populations if they can. We are an invasive species. At least, the fossil record points to this conclusion.
barryaksarben
White religion in this country has devolved into a group of racist, sexist homophobic idiots who have totally lost sight of actual christianity. They dont understand the more they try to FORCE others to believe as they do the more people run from them. They have become our own TALIBAN and they will follow the most extreme loudmouth crazys possible with Frothy being but one of them. They have all lost all decency or humanity. they dont care about other people at all or they would just stop their political bullshit and go out and ACTUALLY help people but they are way past that and cant find their way back to decency. How CNN can keep this guy on as a REASONABLE person when he is anything but is beyond ridiculous.
Fahd
I thought Savage had backed off from promoting the alternative definition of Santorum a few years back because Savage wanted to be a good guy and to give the loser a break. Well, maybe being a nice guy where Santorum is involved was a mistake. Santorum’s not that dumb — he knows very well about the systematic killing of Native Americans and the U.S. Supreme Court-sanctioned stealing of land that marked the beginning of the USA. Shameful!
Man About Town
Wow — gaslight manifesto is “old enough to remember” 2003? This person must be ancient!
flieslikeabeagle
What is more disgusting than a frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter? The genocide of Native Americans on which our nation was built.
Ginger Tom
Another politician saying something stupid, nasty and mendacious just to try and get more votes from a bunch of baboons. Doncha jus’ love democracy?