Simply False

Time blogger Andrew Sullivan, in his Daily Dish, has a video news segment of a TV station fact checking a Rick Santorum ad. His take:

A devastating dissection of an anti-Casey Santorum ad. The champion of moral values has no problem with bearing false witness. The local TV station has a variety of labels to judge the accuracy of campaign ads. This Santorum one got the worst label possible: false.

It's Sunday, so this thought comes to mind. What is most amazing to me about Santorum is that he professes to be such a religious person. His Catholic faith is supposedly the basis for many of his extreme, hardcore conservative positions, such as abortion and gay marriage. Yet he is not well acquainted with the truth. See, e.g., A Lie Told Well, for other examples of his "arrogant display of mendacity." As I noted then:

For some reason, the Republicans don't even seem to care whether their previous contrary views are published or preserved on video. They feel free to deny, adamantly I might add, things that are easily proven otherwise. I think it's just a matter of they think they could. There are no consequences when they are caught in a "red handed" lie. The spin machine is brought out, and it's so fine-tuned, that the lie is lost somewhere in the partisan attack.

Now I am a product of a Catholic education (including law school, I might add). As I recall, under the tenets of the Catholic Church, lying is a sin. Yet Mr. Catholic Santorum lies often and often lies. On the one hand, his political mantra is that he cannot brook any compromise on those issues that are faith-based, because the Bible tells him so, yet he bends the rules as needed for his personal benefit. So, he's a hypocrite and a liar. I think that about sums it up.

For another interesting take on Santorum and his political persona, see, Tom Ferrick's post, A Churchillian Moment, at his PoliBlog 2006.

UPDATE: For more Shuffling from Sanctimonious Santorum, see Santorum Lies About Iraq by the Pennsylvania Progressive, on his appearance on Philly's Live@Issue on Channel 10.

(Via Throw Away your TV, which also has the video)

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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so.
~Mark Twain

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