Rick Santorum this week showed he has some fire in his belly, cursing out a New York Times reporter. “It’s bullshit,” Santorum yelled at political scribe Jeff Zeleny.
“I did not see that coming,” Jon Stewart said on Tuesday. “Rick Santorum, social conservative, swearing at a reporter. I think this is how he should talk from now on: ‘I believe life starts at fucking conception.’”
Could Santorum be more bad ass than any of us realized? Stewart wondered. “He looks all milquetoast-y in those sweater vests and everything, but I’m beginning to think they started out as sweaters and he just rips the sleeves off.”
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