{"id":6450,"date":"2012-02-13T16:48:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T20:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=6450"},"modified":"2012-02-13T17:15:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T21:15:20","slug":"rick-santorum-radical-feminists-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/02\/13\/rick-santorum-radical-feminists-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Rick “What Book?” Santorum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I get to today’s Rick Santorum limerick, here’s a post from my other blog about the Mary Todd Lincoln portrait hoax.<\/a><\/p>\n

Getting back to Santorum, Rick (not to be outdone by Ron Paul’s newsletter disclaimers) is feigning ignorance over his very own book: <\/a><\/p>\n

Only days after having to explain a comment about women and emotions in combat, Rick Santorum seemed to struggle a bit on Sunday to explain a remark in his 2005 book \u201cIt Takes a Family\u201d that blamed \u201cradical feminists\u201d for undermining families and for trying to persuade women that they could find fulfillment only in the workplace.<\/p>\n

Asked on the ABC News program \u201cThis Week\u201d about the book\u2019s contentions, Mr. Santorum noted that his wife, Karen, had written that section \u2014 though only his name is on the cover and he does not list her in the acknowledgments as among those \u201cwho assisted me in the writing of this book.\u201d …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the interview on Sunday, Mr. Santorum pleaded unfamiliarity with the citation, saying, \u201cI don\u2019t know \u2013 that\u2019s a new quote for me\u201d…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Limerick Ode To Rick “What Book?” Santorum
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Dear Rick, when you author a book
\nYou have placed yourself square on the hook
\nFor the contents inside.
\nYou’re a coward to hide
\nFrom your screed. Either that, or a schnook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before I get to today’s Rick Santorum limerick, here’s a post from my other blog about the Mary Todd Lincoln portrait hoax. Getting back to Santorum, Rick (not to be outdone by Ron Paul’s newsletter disclaimers) is feigning ignorance over his very own book: Only days after having to explain a comment about women and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,21,121,20,113,6,7,3,9,1221],"tags":[1722,2786,2764,839,2852,1816,2797,1815,2877,1644],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6450"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6461,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450\/revisions\/6461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}