Santorum attacks colleges again, doesn't know what he's talking about, is asshole

Santorum Attacks Colleges on Religion, Politics (Inside Higher Ed)

     Rick Santorum, the Republican presidential candidate, on Wednesday again bashed colleges in a campaign appearance, urging those at a campaign event to stop giving contributions to colleges, CBS News reported. "It's no wonder President Obama wants every kid to go to college," he said. "The indoctrination that occurs in American universities is one of the keys to the left holding and maintaining power in America. And it is indoctrination. If it was the other way around, the ACLU would be out there making sure that there wasn't one penny of government dollars going to colleges and universities, right?" Santorum also accused colleges of being anti-religion, and of turning students against religion. "If they taught Judeo-Christian principles in those colleges and universities, they would be stripped of every dollar. If they teach radical secular ideology, they get all the government support that they can possibly give them. Because you know 62 percent of children who enter college with a faith conviction leave without it." (Several recent studies contradict Santorum's ideas on the relationship between higher education and faith. One study in fact found that while many young adults become less religious, the declines are greater among those who don't attend college than those who do.)

Mixed Portrait of Freshman Political Views (Chronicle of Higher Education)

     New research reveals that college freshmen hold increasingly liberal views on key social issues like same-sex marriage and rights for illegal immigrants. But the progressive viewpoints haven't translated into significantly greater levels of activism or heightened enthusiasm for national politics….

Santorum's rules of honesty

The rules of a noisy Christian

Santorum: I don't need to correct claim Obama is Muslim (CBS news)

     Rick Santorum said Monday he doesn't see the need to correct audience members who make misstatements. His comment came after a woman critical of President Obama at a forum misidentified the president as Muslim.
     The woman told Santorum, "He is an avowed Muslim and my question is, why isn't something being done to get him out of our government?" Santorum responded: "Believe me ... I'm doing everything I can to get him out of the government."….

     Here's what an honest man would do. He'd explain, first, that someone's being a Muslim (avowed or otherwise) is not a reason to "get him out of government."
     Second, he'd explain that there is no reason to suppose that President Obama is a Muslim. On the contrary. He is, in fact, an avowed Christian.
     Rick Santorum is not an honest man.
     Neither are his followers, who listen to this crap without objection. (Well, obviously some of his followers are in yet another group: unbelievably ignorant people.)

Debra Morgan illustrates honest rhetoric

Reductio ad Santorum: red meat from whole cloth!

Dem bones, dem bones,

dem 6,000-year-old dino bones

Santorum: Colleges Have Become 'Indoctrination Centers' (Inside Higher Ed)

     Rick Santorum, who is trying to pull off an upset win in the Iowa caucuses for the Republican presidential nomination, is making higher education a target. In a speech in Mason City, Iowa, Santorum said that it is time to examine support for higher education, the Associated Press reported. "Let's look at colleges and universities," he said. "They've become indoctrination centers for the left. Should we be subsidizing that?" He also criticized Harvard University. Noting that its motto is "Veritas," he said that "they haven't seen truth at Harvard in 100 years."

     Santorum has pursued legislation that would have promoted "intelligent design" in public schools. Meanwhile, Harvard promotes, um, science.