This week in Wisconsin, dead horse of the presidential race Rick Santorum decided to tell a crowd that the problem with higher education, once again, is that it is too high. Too curious. Too too. This must be stopped, with more lessons about how America is the best, or was, for a few years (all of them Clinton years). Santorum’s latest method of slandering non-agoraphobic schooling methods is to claim that the entire UC system is anti-American because it does not teach American history, even though it does and so actually isn’t. Santorum’s one saving grace: one of the UC schools doesn’t teach American history … because it is a medical school.
So, add to Santorum’s American locales hate list (on which Los Angeles and New York hold the top positions): ALL OF CALIFORNIA! What has that vast broke desert full of winos done for America lately?
Here is a crappy but ultimately illustrious video of the remarks:
So, Santorum’s idea of citing facts (something that he would know how to do if he had gone to — oh yes, right, he did go to college, snooty pig, AND THEN HE WENT TO “BUSINESS” SCHOOL, AND THEN HE WENT TO “LAW” SCHOOL) is “I was just reading something last night” [on Daily Caller]. That’s fine, but only because it is funny.
Now it is time for some liberally minded Americans to stomp their feet and deign to correct Santorum’s idiotic counting skills:
In fact, of the 10 UC system schools, just one (San Francisco) doesn’t offer American history courses. But that’s because it doesn’t offer any humanities courses at all — it’s a medical school. Meanwhile, Berkeley, Irvine, Davis, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz all offer numerous American history courses. Some even require students to take U.S. history before they can graduate.
Yes, but, says the possessor of three higher education degrees, who has gotten so bafflingly far in life not thanks to education, but to babies, ladies, God and freedom: it doesn’t matter. No one can save [location that is categorically different from the place in which I am currently campaigning]. [Think Progress]
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In fairness, Rick, medical schools assume you've completed your liberal arts requirements.
EDIT: Holy crap! I meant that as a joke, and only read the piece after I posted!
They say the real history will never get in the books.
Except the bible book. God created America for the white rich man. The end.
Real history will never get into Santorum, Caligula excepted.
Of course they don't teach American history – that's against Sharia law!
Here in A-Merica we live under Sarah Yee Haw Law!
God, I hate people.
This man is helping to precipitate a landslide, and for that I thank him.
I agree. I was all into the hilarious schadenfreude this extended nominating contest involved, until it went all through the looking glass and no republican seems to have noticed.
I'm tired of the insanity. Someone stop the world, I'd like to get off.
Bumper Sticker Idea:
"ALL I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AMERICAN HISTORY I LEARNED ON 9/11"
I'm pretty sure I've actually seen this, or something very close to it.
The ones I've seen are “about Islam”
Yep – that's the one!
All I need to know about American History I learned from the Civil War.
All I need to know about American History I learned from Bull Connor.
All I need to know about American history I learned from the History Channel.
Thanks to Pawn Stars I now know that Paul Revere minted money, in addition to ringing bells and firing warning shots.
All I need to know about
American historyghost-hunting, UFO's, and the Book of Revelation I learned from the History Channel.FIFY
I swear I saw that splayed on the tailgate of a dually truck.
Are they actually running out of manufactured outrage topics? I didn't think that could happen.
Hey, Rick, I'm going to name my first child HUSSEIN, how's that? I love socialism, and Hawaii. Also, dark-skinned men – all of them. There, that should keep you busy for a while.
Peak outrage already? I thought the santorum fields were limitless!!
Just goes to show you that there ARE limits to how much can be pulled out of your ass
Trying to enrage the idiot masses about California's medical schools is a real stretch. Surely there's a happy gay family somewhere that they can get jealous of.
Well not the "history" that you want. These schools use "Facts" and "memoirs" and "letters" of the people that actually lived at that time in history to write their text books.
Has Santorum made his college transcripts public? He talks like a man who flunked a bunch of courses and is a wee bit bitter.
Don't you remember that he got "marked down" for being a conservative, like, all the time?
Apparently he passed nude keg stands with flying colors.
If the country's Founders and Jesus didn't go to College, why should anyone have to?
Didn't Jeebus go to Yeshiva U class of 22?
I thought it was Jerusalem State. Go Fighting Artichokes!!!
Surely he went to Jesus College Oxford.
Was Santorum "home colleged"?
Penn State. That's "home college" with football.
Was he one of Sandusky's "Boys"?
Hey, Penn State is a prestigious institution, they have a great Phrenology department, they are a world leader in 'ciphering, and have made great strides in the study of phlogiston. And, with the Sandusky story having made Penn State the national symbol of sports pedophilia, (similar to how Duke and Date Rape are inextricably linked) its somehow appropriate that the Frothy Mix went there, to the school where the athletic showers apparently saw lots of santorum.
Penn State. That Icon of Liberalism.
Unless, of course, you're familiar with LITERALLY any other college or university in Pennsylvania, since even the noteworthy Catholic schools are a tad more left-wing than Penn State is. Atheist Liberal College, it ain't.
At Atheist Liberal College, a different academic department volunteers to engage in Institutional Illiberalism every semester, so that students can have the valuable experience of protesting for change. Security even brings them box lunches from The Hungry Radical Sandwich Shoppe.
The real history involves Jesus Christ coming down from Mount Vernon carrying the Stone tablets on which The Declaration of Independance and the Constitution were written, and all the Founding Fathers, who were Devout Christian Biblical Literalists took the Holy Founding Documents and founded a White Male Christian Nation and there was no sex except for procreation because sex was Wicked and Bad, as it still is. But like I said, the real history never made the books, and none of the schools teach it. You can only find it on Tea Party protest signs.
True story. I was recently on the DC Metro sitting near a couple probably each in their late 50's. The man, the apparent world expert on everything, was loudly discussing how he was taking his lovely lady to Mount Vernon. On the Metro. I tried to explain to him that Mount Vernon Square and Mount Vernon were actually two different places, but he was having none of that. He KNEW what he was talking about, but was slightly concerned that the other riders on the train were getting a little bit "ethnic". Usually, I bend over backwards to help visitors as I've been lost and confused in other cities (Tokyo, holy moley). This guy, I just restated that they were different places and wished him luck.
Dude, I grew up in Mount Vernon, in Washington sans DC. I lived on Capitol hill, both of them.
Seriously, the left coast lacked some imagination back in the founding days.
The real history is on Tea Party protest signs? Oh, like this one: https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3640/3313864503_1…
"That's not what it means!! You are slurring our movement with your sex perversions!!1!1"
"Yeah, well you're slurring our sex perversions with your movement!!!one!"
Who said history is written by the winners?
All of them, Katie.
Apparently we heard it wrong all along.
History is written by the whiners.
hence little rickey's hatred.
Deacon Blue?
You don't want history written by Charly Sheen. It would be gross.
Rick Santorum has the cilice cinched up too tight again.
Did Santorum put it in the right place?
"Stupid people are Santorums too, my friends."
–The Wide Wide World of Wonkette
Are they not teaching it, or are they shoving librul versions down students' (snobs) throats?
Pick a fucking lane.
Spoken like a true Californian and one who doesn't own a Beemer (cuz they get all the lanes all the time and they are always first and it is always their turn)!
Whats the opposite of a "think tank", and can we just send him there.
The Republican National Convention, and I hope he makes a giant fuss there.
Any place where there's more than one Palin.
Santorum. If you pull stuff out of your ass every time, you are doing it wrong.
"We need to have American History with our X-ray Tech classes."
I betcha Newt's moon colony will teach American History. And not that stuff about slavery, manifest destiny or the crap about the Mexican's/American Indians. Nosiree,
our moon colony will be all Reagan and Lincoln and Barbara Bush oriented teachin'! Just the good stuff
Wouldn't that be American History X?
Ed Norton Libel!!
Of all the negative and true things we could say about the UC system (tuition hikes!?!?) we have this vested creep making up his own. Santourum is America's greatest creative writer!??!
I don't think Little Ricky's parents got a bargain on his education – whitey seems a little light on facts and cognitive abilities. Of course you don't have much need for those kinds of things when you're a bible-thumping asswipe.
Well, he did go to Penn State. Probably good at ice-cream making and ignoring sex abuse (wait, I think he has that one covered).
Maybe they don't teach "American History" because it's such a broad subject. Chances are that schools will delve into specific areas of American history indepth, for, you know, THEIR FUCKING AMERICAN HISTORY MAJORS!!!!!!!!
Not only does the UC system teach history, I remember working very hard in my–wait for it–American Intellectual History course at Berkeley.
Asshole.
Holy Christ that is like the supertrifecta of evil – Snobby snobbist snobbery at Hippie Snob U. (yes hippie snob. If we can have fascist socialism, by GOD we can have snobbie hippies.)
As a Berkeley history undergrad whose focus was colonial and early American history, I gotta wonder what I was really doing for those 4 years? Maybe I was being brainwashed into thinking I took something like 6 history courses that focused on the US in one way or another (2 seminars, a thesis course, at least 3 substantive time period courses, and I waived out of intro to US history – along with a historic archeology course that focused on the US colonies and plantations, a poli sci course that focused on the US system, and an econ course focused on American policy). Of course, the instructors sometimes acted like the US was a strange foreign object, but that was just because they were strung out grad students.
Are American Intellectuals history? Discuss with particular reference to the Republican Party.
Typical Marxist snobbery.
Real America History ain't intellectual.
If he makes too many more gaffes like this, Rick Santorum may jeopardize his chances to become president of the United States of America.
It's OK. He can always go back to koludge. The snob!
Well, they should just stop teaching abortion at the medical school and teach American History!
I really can't figure out if that makes you a liberal or not. Such a conundrum.
So, add to Santorum’s American locales hate list (on which Los Angeles and New York hold the top positions): ALL OF CALIFORNIA!
Never have I been so proud of my adopted state. And as an LA resident, I get double the hate. I feel so humbled by this honor.
California is the greatest state, despite some terrible decisions (previous governor). The more Rick hates it, the more I want to move back.
He's probably just angry that some of those schools teach American history as it actually happened, instead of his preferred versions where America was an empty place without any people who got slaughtered by the white men when they came here, happy Africans volunteered to come over and pick cotton, and every founding father was a devout Christian who made Christianity the official religion of the US in the First Amendment.
And every corporation is a person.
OT, but it looks like "Traffic Stop Slavery" is now illegal!
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/02/justice/scotus-stri…
This is good news for Basil Marceaux.
Didn't he go to Penn State? Maybe he got Sanduskied one time too many.
Or not enough to keep him, uh, fulfilled
Penn State, then Pitt, then back to the Penn State law school. He never really ventured too far, did he?
Once you've gone old and pedophile, you never..wait..what?
I don't know, I think this shows Santorum is losing his touch. At his prime Santorum would have said all this and THEN accused the schools of instead teaching the history of white oppression starting with Yakob genetically engineering the white race on the isle of Potmos or something.
But, wait, doesn't the GOP say education is a local matter? And don't they want to abolish the Department of Education?
So WTF business is it of President Santorum's if California doesn't teach history at all ever? Local school board matter. Just like teaching science in Kansas.
I mean, is it too much to ask for just a little bit of consistency?*
*I know. Yes. Yes it is. Just like it's too much to ask for critical thinking skills amongst the electorate.
The Education is Too Damn High.
I am not sure the percentage, but a number of students who attend colleges don't retain their belief in History after they graduate.
Know what else they don't teach in medical school? Fractions. I tried enrolling in medical school once, but found out they don't teach you how to do fractions so I couldn't go.
I'll bet Professor Palin goes rogue on this news!
Such a passion for American History don't cha know.
All I learned about US Americuh histrionics by Rick Santorum:
-And on the 8th day, Gawd made US America
-US Americuh Teabaggers kicked out Johnny English
-The Nawth and Sawth had a disagreement about state's rights (not left's!!!!) Sawth won according to Harry Tuttledove.
-U! S!! A!!!!
-Leave It To Beaver is the greatest moment in US America!
-Some blah-kies and ladies rioted, USAmericuh
-Gooks tied US America in Rambo
-Wolveriiiiiiiiines!!!
-Clinton blow job
-U! S A!!!!!!
You know what is morer scariester Rick. Some of these schools in California teach (brace your self) people how to speak FRENCH!!!!! Ohhhhhhh, it's a bad time to be an american student.
Do you know who else speaks French?
Pepe Le Pew?
Oui, mon petit chou.
Six years of Architecture School and the only history I took was counting Frank Lloyd Wright's mistresses.
That's not history, that's higher mathematics. Entire graduate theses were written about those calculations.
We in the mathematics trade reserve the Hebrew alphabet for such numbers.
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number )
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_number )
You can't foo me with your fancypants "Jooish" numbers! Beth is a NAME!
Well, it does all sound very cardinal.
Jeez, just lose already.
Oh, history's such a waste. Rick obviously didn't learn a fucking thing from it.
Reagan was the greatest ever, except for all the lying, lawbreaking and administration officials who were indicted and convicted of felonies. But I digress.
Tonight on FOX NEWS — The outrage taking place on college campuses across communist California!
That dog- is it a jack russell? much more important than anything Ricky says
No idea. He's a random Internet dog. All I know for sure about him is that he likes to fuck skulls.
Isn't Santorum past his ooze by date?
Which American History?
The polished one, that we use just for family. It is up on that top shelf there, behind the pickle tray.
Not surprising the pickle tray is a top shelf item, is it?
American History X, of course.
Mmmm, skinhead Ed Norton. . .brb
Why teach history when there's abundant supply of pepper spray?
I am so sick of this guy. Can you imagine President Obama demonizes a whole state or a whole group of people and gets away with it?
Bamz can't even lament the death of a black teenager without everyone screaming that he wants to stab every white teenager in the face.
"Clinging to their guns and religion." Although that wasn't "demonizing" per se, more condescending to the pitiful, dumb fucks for sucking their pacifiers instead of voting their interests.
They all teach TEH GAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.
Oh, oh. Now he's stepped in it. History is Newt's gig and he will be all over like the Gold Rush Era when the Japanesers attacked Tifanny to get her pearls, and how Thomas Jefferson founded Universal Studios so his slaves could work in movies. Stay on your own side of the street, Santorum!
I also read somewhere that anti-abortion crusader Santorum's wife had a late termination caused by failed invasive surgery on a living fetus (torture?). Also, too, the thing I read turns out to be true. So there's that.
Ricky was probably reading this WSJ article, which has been knocked down here and more thoroughly here.
Y'all are unfairly piling on Rick here — see, what he said was "I think it’s seven or eight of the California system of universities don’t even teach an American history course. It’s not even available to be taught."
He's not saying they don't teach any American history courses — he's saying there's one American history course they don't teach — and that, of course, is AH 351, "The Guiding Hand of Jesus in American Statecraft from Evidence Garnered from Homeless Schizophrenics and Snakebit Backwoods Reverends." Free and it gets your fifty thousand college credits — but it's like the American people just don't want to learn.
I'm a home schooled doctor. All my patients are history.
BAM!
"… so they have an understanding of what America should be."
America certainly should not be what it was in 1790. Slavery. Only property owning white men could vote. No internet porn.
Apparently he missed it at the clown college he attended, too.
You know what else they teach in college?
Hitler?
I can say exactly, but in my day they drumed our Social Security number into us as if we were circus dogs. (Why a circus dog needs SS, I haven't a clue.)
Thing is, they were always asking for it and we'd say it out loud as if there was hardly any identity theft in the 70's. Which, I guess there wasn't.
Edit: Hitler.
Hey santorum! Your mom goes to college!
If Ricky is the "dead horse" of the race, what does that make Ron Paul?
I called bullshit at the point where he said, "I was reading…"
I don't this it is opt out as much as can't find a coat hanger.
The thing about Santorum's younger day photos is trying to detect when it is that his mouth started trying to twist off his face. Seriously, what is up with his Picassoed face? It appears normal enough in his youth, but either the years of punchings or the years of lying twisted it up right good.
In Rick's world, the University of Phoenix would be playing DeVrie in tonight's big game.
DeVry is favored by six.
All I remember from college American History is that the US is evil and must apologize to every other nation, forever. Especially the Muslims.
…and the civil war wasn't about slavery, it was about states rights.
So you got the important parts too. also.
The problem is too many people who don't know any history are voting. There are plenty of chances to learn history for free.
Even the ca students are forced to take history, which they are of course , very few will actually learn history's lessons. Why? Cuz they r humans!
American History 101: 236 years of stupid fucking morons thinking that they have control of their own destinies just because the rich fancy financiers and stockholders of
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA stage and fund a never ending partisan puppet show that fills the stupid little morons all full of blind pride and makes 'em pound their chests
in an all powerful manner just because they are "blessed" with the thrill of engaging in political commentary that leads up to the climactic election day hoopla after which yet another
Zionist schill is installed by delegates and superdelegates having no actual concern at all for the stupid fucking morons who "think" that "they" selected their new puppet.
And on the day the dog collars are permanently wrapped around the necks of every one of the stupid fucking morons, they'll be screaming "no fair! I didn't vote to have a dog collar placed
around my stupid moronic neck!"
And Big Brother's most recent schill will reply, "oh, but you did! Over and over and over again, you did! Now, kneel, you stupid fucking moron! Get down with your bad moronic self!"
Where do I sign up!?
Yes!! The Zionists have been controlling American elections for 236 years!!
Yep. It's little known, but George Washington and John Adams secretly traveled to Prague in 1775 to meet with the Elders of Zion and plot the founding of the United States.
OK, I think that''s enough of this turd biscuit. Santorum has taken up way too much of our time and he should be shuffled to the back of the pack until someone comes up with pics of him with Pat Robertson's beef rocket in his mouth or something.
"We're trying to disconnect Americans from who they are so that they have an understanding of what America should be."
The Santorum campaign in a nutshell.
Rick, you ignorant slut. Pandering to the lowest common denominator only makes you look like a fool to the general population. And fuck you, also.
Yeah. I'm ready for primary season to be over. Yup.
Why the fuck are there "medical schools" anyway? Everyone knows Real Americans just pray the pain away.
This will come as somewhat of a shock to my friend who teaches American history at one of the Cal State Universities.
#NotIntendedtobeaFactualStatement
In the history of douchebags, Rick Santorum is a full professor.
also. too. tennured!
Outside of the fact that undergrads are REQUIRED to take some units of American History to get a degree from a Cal State or UC school; Rick should kick our commie butts out of the US after he gets elected. We'll set up a deal on military base rental, just remember how expensive beachfront land can be in San Diego.
As a 3rd generation Californian I offer the middle finger of love to this grim weasel.
Stay the fuck out of my state asshole… and you might try a hearty thank you every once and awhile you meathead.
An educated electorate is not beneficial to the right. You took the words right out of my mouth Ant. Stay the fuck out and shut the fuck up Santorum.
I guess it evens out with the number of schools in Mississippi that teach science
There are schools in Mississippi?
H. L. Mencken, defined a demagogue as a politician who "will preach doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." Tricky Ricky, that means you.
Well shit. I majored in American history at a U.C. school. Does this mean I never graduated? Do I not even exist????
A non-person is the precise term.
Would teaching like, you know ….History be kind of Snobbish?
I think Rick just discovered you can get a prescription for MMJ in Cali for mental illness….
Alt cap for the yearbook pix: "Would I? Why don't you ask me?"
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