In last night’s Rewrite, Lawrence shared the story of Rick Santorum, borrowing from the great Harlem Renaissance poet, Langston Hughes.
Pennsylvania's former Senator lifted from the poem "Let America be America Again." His new campaign slogan? "Fighting to make America America Again."
Think Progress just caught up with Santorum, and he said he had "nothing to do with that.” He continued, “I didn’t know that. The folks who worked on that slogan for me didn’t inform me that that’s where it came from, if in fact it came from that.”
Given that Hughes was pro-union, pro-immigration and pro-racial justice, it’s odd the extremely right-wing politician would make such a choice. Even in today's political spectrum, Langston Hughes was somewhere to the left of Dennis Kucinich.
Santorum admitted he's not "a big poetry guy."
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I bet he was horrified, not that it was a quote about it being pro-Union but the fact that it was a GAY poet who wrote it. Hahahahahahahahaha!!! Busted.
Seems he is, at least, as much a dispsh*t (being kind) as he was as Pennsylvania Senator. Maybe he could run for dog-catcher.
How about "Let America be White, Straight, and Christian Again" ?
Talk about trying to make a mountain out of a molehill?
Who cares if Santorum did or didn't take that slogan from his poem? It's either a big coincidence or he took a phrase from a poem of someone who's beliefs are on the opposite spectrum of his own. Either way it's not news worthy.
How about the slogan.I should be in a santorium.