Rick Santorum Pleads In Vain With Google To Fix His 'Google Problem'

Victimiest most victimized ever victim Rick "The President of Victims" Santorum has had a rough time carrying out his life's mission as an unrepentant homophobic bigot, because his consistent dehumanizing attacks on gay people forced them to start a gay jihad against him (funny how war works, isn't it, Rick?) that makes filthy results pop up top with any Google search of his name or presidential campaign. Most everyone knows this and finds it amusing and would probably forget about it eventually, except that Rick Santorum keeps bringing it up. Now he is appealing directly to the gods of Google to "fix" this with the helpful suggestion that Google would voluntarily censor legal Internet search results if a crazy liberal politician asked them to. That'll win 'em over, Rick!

POLITICO justifies their heart-stopping scoop on this thing that is not news by pointing out that this is nominally the first time Rick Santorum has said he would go straight to Google to request they make the Internet quit mocking him:

“I suspect if something was up there like that about Joe Biden, they’d get rid of it,” Santorum said. “If you're a responsible business, you don't let things like that happen in your business that have an impact on the country.”

To which, SNORT:

A Google spokesperson responded to Santorum by advising that users who want "content removed from the Internet should contact the webmaster of the page directly."

"Google’s search results are a reflection of the content and information that is available on the web. Users who want content removed from the Internet should contact the webmaster of the page directly," the spokesperson said. "Once the webmaster takes the page down from the web, it will be removed from Google’s search results through our usual crawling process."

Our favorite part was when Rick Santorum believed his problems "have an impact on the country." Now that WOULD be news, truly! [ Politico ]