Ricky@Inky?

This guy is definitely like that stuff that gets stuck on your shoe, emanates a certain odor & is difficult to get off.

He's our own "ex" -- ex-PA Senator Rick Santorum. Philly Magazine is reporting that he's in discussions with the Philadelphia Inquirer, Santorum to Pen Inky Column?.

Republican former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum is in talks to become the Philadelphia Inquirer‘s newest op-ed columnist. Reached late Wednesday night, Santorum told us, “We’re sort of back and forth, haven’t decided anything, but we’re talking, yes.”

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Santorum wouldn’t go into more detail. He said his talks with the Inky were “an informal dialogue” and the column “may or may not happen.” Since losing big in last November’s midterm elections, Santorum has been hiring staff and “trying to do some things to influence the public discussion,” mainly on the issue of global terrorism. He joined a think-tank in Washington D.C., the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he heads the subtly named “America’s Enemies” project on radical Islam. He also signed with the Harry Walker lecture agency — whose client list includes Bill Clinton, Henry Kissinger and Bono — and is working on a book about the terrorist threat. Santorum said that if he were to write an Inky column, “it would be on a variety of different things,” including his work on radical Islam. When we asked him about the chances for the column actually happening, Santorum said, “I’ve got a lot of other things that I’m doing. So part of it is just whether I have time to do it.”

He sure does have a lot to do. See, Public Enemy #1, for more on the Santorum gravy train.

This is all the work of Brian Tierney, the new "owner" of the Inquirer, see, e.g., And in a Blink, He Was Gone, who is determined to either turn the paper into the Philly Suburban Inquirer or go bust trying.

As for his buddy Rick, Eat The Press at The Huffington Post also confirmed reports Rick Santorum To Join Fox News.

Phawker has the absolutely, positively, without a doubt best coverage on the image of the "marriage" of "the vast ignorance-spreading power of Fox News and all the stupid useless self-righteous fearmongering hate-noise that comes out of Santorum’s mouth," in Santorum Finally Gets A Godamned Job.

Tags: Philadelphia, Philly, Journalism, Santorum