Proof that Pop Country is for Idiots
Martina Macbride wrote a song about Rick Santorum’s crying daughter
You know the one:
I’m still not so much convinced she’s weeping for his loss so much as she’s bemoaning the fact that now Crazy Dad is going to spend more time at home, where she’ll have to listen to an endless diatribe about the Islamofascohomocomunists.
But anyway, MacBride, who’s clearly a few quarters short of a nickel, wrote is flogging a song about it.
When Sarah Maria started crying, singer/songwriter Leslie Satcher, who knows and admires Santorum, was watching, chagrined.
“Rick was giving this speech how he loved Pennsylvania, and the cameras zoomed in on this little girl,” Satcher said Thursday by phone from a Nashville recording session. “I said, ‘They’re not even paying attention to Rick, and they’re just showing us this girl hurting for him.’ It spoke to our times. We forget people are grieving and forget to give them space.”
“Admires Santorum?” A guy who didn’t even live in the state he “represented”? A guy who ripped off his kids’ school district? A guy who compares gay people to dogfuckers and pedophiles?
Please. The only thing more emptyheaded than the songwriter’s comments about America’s Dumbest Ex-Senator are the lyrics, which are rank with the Barney theme for abject drivel.
In these times in which we live
Where the worst of what we live
Is laid out for all the world on the front pageAnd the sound of someone’s heartbreak
Is a sound bite at the news break
With a close shot of the tears rollin’ down their faceBlessed be the child who turns a loving eye
And stops to pray
For these times in which we live
The best part of all of course is the revelation that Rick LIKES to make his kids cry:
“Santorum said he made a special moment out of telling Sarah Maria about the McBride song, informing her as he recorded her on a video camera.
Once again, the girl cried, as Santorum knew she would. “I wanted to record her reaction,” he said. “We do that for family movies.”
Yeeeesh. Way to go there, Rick. Or should I say Dick?
Anyway, this bit of brain-addling drivel will no doubt go be added to heavy rotation any day now. And speaking of brain-addled drivel, what’s with this statement that
“liberal bloggers opposed to Santorum’s conservative stances on abortion and gay rights. Others called out Santorum for “using” Sarah Maria and his other children as props on election night.
“You’re a complete jerk when you write stuff like that,” Santorum said. “They’re picking on my little girl, saying things like, ‘I never got so much joy from an 8-year-old’s tears.’ You don’t do that.
I just spent the past month listening to outraged, foaming at the mouth wingnuts drag the entire Frost Family through the mud for allowing their kid to appear in a commercial for Kids’ Health Insurance, and Santorum’s got his panties in a bunch about a few comments? How does the writer know the comments are from liberals, anyway? Rick lost by landslide to a conservative, pro-life Democrat, who took in an enormous percentage of disaffected Independents and Republicans who had grown tired of the Senator’s sanctimony, mendacity, and grandstanding. Earth to Alfred Lubrano: Santorum was an embarrassment to Pennsylvania, and no matter how many times you uncritically regurgitate statements like “the majority of Americans…are traditional, faith-based people” and “Native Pennsylvanians should be very proud of Rick Santorum”, you can’t change that.
Native Pennsylvanians aren’t very proud of Rick Santorum: that’s why we sent him packing in a landslide. “Official returns from the November 7th, 2006 election show that Bob Casey had 2,392,984 votes or 58.7% of the vote. His 708,206 vote margin of victory is the second highest ever against an incumbent Senator in all U.S. Senate elections since 1920.
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October 27th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
It’s about the feeling we get in the cockles of our heart…