{"id":1366,"date":"2012-03-16T16:54:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T23:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2012-03-17T23:02:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T06:02:53","slug":"speako-englisho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1366","title":{"rendered":"Speako Englisho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOP presidential candidate and neo-Neanderthal , Rick &#8220;<a title=\"Santorum\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?source=ig&amp;hl=en&amp;rlz=&amp;q=Santorum&amp;btnG=Google+Search#hl=en&amp;gs_nf=1&amp;pq=rick+santorum&amp;cp=5&amp;gs_id=2f&amp;xhr=t&amp;q=Santorum&amp;pf=p&amp;sclient=psy-ab&amp;oq=Santo&amp;aq=0&amp;aqi=g4&amp;aql=&amp;gs_sm=&amp;gs_upl=&amp;gs_l=&amp;pbx=1&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&amp;fp=c471d03a2d2b8453&amp;biw=1228&amp;bih=877\" target=\"_blank\">Google Me<\/a>&#8221; Santorum, showed off his diplomatic skills Wednesday <a title=\"Santorum Campaigns in Puerto Rico\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2115650\/Santorum-ignites-uproar--defies-U-S-Constitution--tells-Puerto-Rico-Speak-English-want-statehood.html\" target=\"_blank\">while campaigning in Puerto Rico<\/a>, when he said that for Puerto Rico to become a state, they would have to embrace English as the primary language. Puerto Rico currently is a bilingual U.S. commonwealth and is voting in November on whether or not to pursue statehood. Spanish is also the primary language in the country because of it&#8217;s strong Spanish heritage and history. Of course, Santorum&#8217;s view is consistent with conservative Republican&#8217;s world view that everyone should speak English and Americans should only have to speak English everywhere they go, despite the fact that the majority of people in the Western Hemisphere speak Spanish.\u00a0 His viewpoint reminds us of when Archie Bunker tried to speak Spanish on an episode of that classic 70&#8217;s sitcom, <em>All in the Family.<\/em> Pues, creemos que Santorum es un pendejo grande!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1368\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1368\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=1368\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1368\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1368\" title=\"santorumspanish\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/santorumspanish.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/santorumspanish.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/santorumspanish-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOP candidate Rick &#39;Google Me&#39; Santorum impresses the bilingual crowds in Puerto Rico with his command of the Spanish language.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP presidential candidate and neo-Neanderthal , Rick &#8220;Google Me&#8221; Santorum, showed off his diplomatic skills Wednesday while campaigning in Puerto Rico, when he said that for Puerto Rico to become a state, they would have to embrace English as the primary language. Puerto Rico currently is a bilingual U.S. commonwealth and is voting in November &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1366\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speako Englisho&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,230,8,3],"tags":[234,22,147,448,9,21,98,343,446,19,334,447],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1386,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}