Santorum kid flips off USA on national TV. Classy.
There are so, so many things to love about this picture. Well, three things: Rick Santorum conceding, a little girl crying, and an awkward pre-teen flipping off the nation. We declare this the official screenshot of the 2006 midterm congressional elections.
via Wonkette
Goodbye Satantorum, we will not miss you.
I’m thinking that he is pushing his glasses up his nose with his middle finger. I’ve done it and I’m sure pretty much everyone with glasses has too. Except I don’t get caught on camera and thrown on a website. Not that I’m a fan of Rick Santorum, but give the kid a break.
I will bet the KID gets a ERAL tongue lashing…
Who said Dvorak was mean spirited?
Did you guys hear the people wailing in grief during his concession speech?
I have gathered over the last several months that JCD doesn’t tolerate idiots well regardless of their party affiliation. I don’t either, but I’m just an old fart that sits around listening to too much NPR. 
The kids reaction is the only honest comment coming out of his dad’s campaign.
So much for family values!
Rick will probably have Dada beat his ass.
I did read an interesting column in the times about Mr. Santorum. He may be a major a-hole regarding the religious/state separation and Iraq, but on some issues including helping the poor, sick and hungry of the world, he was supposedly a real decent human being. (Even Bono said so). Just a for what its worth.
As to the picture of the kid: if the kid was featured in any political advertising for Mr. Santorum, then too bad, if you make them props, people will treat them like props…. since it was probably inadvertant, its is kind of lame using it.
I think the kid is just showing how many people in the crowd really voted for that pud.
I can just imagine what the little girl must be thinking: “….gee, if dad’s not rich i’ll have to go to a school where there’s black people and mexicans…daddy showed me pictures of them…boo hoo hoo”. And isn’t she a little old for dolls? I can only imagine the “prep talk” and “character design” these children get in order to communicate the image that is desired by their robot parents.
#10 don’t worry about her, she’ll be a lobbyist in just a few years….
#2, yes i do it too (having worn glassses for 15 yrs now), but its still awesome – that kid has great foresight… lets elect that kid for the Prez for 2028!!
I’m with guywithglasses – I mean you try to use a different finger to push your glasses back up on your nose, but the middle is the longest and finds the bridge of your nose fastest – JCD has glasses himself (or at least wears them for pics …) and should know better 
#10,
Dad will still be rich. In fact he’ll be richer. Former officials often go on to private consulting today and make an even greater fortune.
#2 interesting. I have worn glasses for 30 years and I always use my index finger.
#2, #16, I used my middle finger for pushing up my glasses too, for 30 years also, if doing it longer makes me more right, lol. And I used to poke myself in the eye out of habit for a while afterwards when I got contact lenses. For god’s sake, sometimes pushing up your glasses is just pushing up your glasses. It’s not the Bush Fascist Youth salute, or a conspiracy. Everyone do a test and touch the bridge of your nose, and look at which finger you use.
Amateur. Bush wipes his butt with the Constitution in this kid’s general direction.
The Democrats are in power …..We’re all saved…..oh happy day….
Oh come on this is one of those gotcha pictures. The kid is just adjusting his glasses. In real time it probably took a slit second.
I am glad to see his daddy gone from power but lets not take target practice a wounded duck.
He’ll be a hero to all his friends. Heck, anytime you can do that on TV I’m all for it.
I don’t know about you, but I learned not to flip people off while pushing up my glasses. Theres always someone that may take it the wrong way. Sure I use my middle finger, but I generally leave the other fingers extended when I do it.
I’m sure it was accedental (mostly) but still, when you’re on camera you should extra careful anyway. Many a YTMND have been made off simple goofed gestures.
The kid on the bottom left is thinking, “when I grow up I’m going to become a dictator and have all these politicians and their rabid supporters deported or worse. Then, 10-year-olds like me won’t be used as campaign props and can stay home and play Nintendo.”
On another subject, it’s astounding how fast the right has adopted a Post 11/7 message of “working together”. Astounding, in that it is such a flip-flop from last week’s, anyone who disagrees, move to the “pound sand” self help line to the left.
Lay off the guy’s children. Geeze.
Makes you wonder if the finger salute is worth more to the FCC than an exposed nipple ?!? We shall “see”…Lol
Hey it was a Wonkette post I thought you all would like.
It wasn’t much different than a lot of humorous photogs’s published simply because they’re funny…and this IS funny for whatever reason..no ?
It’s like the current CNN photo of Donald Rumsfeld shown hanging his head in shame… instead of what he was actually doing – checking if his fly was open.
(That photo will certainly be replaced soon as it headlines CNN)
RBG
“I can just imagine what the little girl must be thinking: “….gee, if dad’s not rich i’ll have to go to a school where there’s black people and mexicans…daddy showed me pictures of them…boo hoo hoo”.
Funny stuff, needed to be said again.
I beg to differ. It will be nonno who beats his ass!!
The joke here may be on all the Santorium haters. Casey is no liberal. He’s a pro-second amendment, pro-life, social and economic Conservative Democrat, as his father was. He won’t promote religion like Rickie boy, but he won’t be be a Liberal supporter.
He feels this is revenge for the way the Democrats treated his father, who was a good Governor and a good man.
They finally flushed the toilets in Washington.
I am not a Liberal. I am Libertarian. I used to vote for Republicans until they lost their way. Maybe these losses will teach them something.
Well, I hope the next time some democrats lose you guys take making fun of him and his frackin kids well.
John – you disappoint me. I’m sure many of you are having your day with the huge gains by the Anti-American party, but at least lay off people who honestly care about America and the people you freakin idiots claim to care about.
May God have mercy on us.
#35.
Watch out who you call unamerican.
& God has had mercy on us.
“I do not believe Americans have a constitutional right to privacy of sexual acts between consenting adults” –Rick Santorum
I don’t care about his other politics, but anyone who says something like the above doesn’t deserve to exist, period. I’m glad he lost.
This is one smart kid. Santorum is a good and decent man and got boned up the arse for being so. All hail the socialists…er…dumbocrats. er whatever.
One small loss for a politician, one giant leap for mankind.
P.S. Ivor – Neener Neener Neener
#35 – I dont want to start a flame-war here but u need to loosen up yo… you party lost, accept defeat, embrace the new overlords, the glasses kid is freakin awesome
Santorum always struck me as the closet-homosexual type in line with Ted Haggard, railing against the “other” sexual orientation while privately hiring male prostitutes. He’s probably on meth.
I really doubt the kid is flipping everyone the bird. He’s clearly pushing his glasses back. This is the sort of mean spirited “Gotcha!” games that is polarizing the politics of this country.
What pleases me is that we’re not going to be subjected to weeks or months of legal wranglings in the courts by lawyers for both political parties. And given the razor thin margins in Montana and Virginia this could have gone much longer then it should. Any candidate who’s going to put the good of the country over the good of his political career is a class act, and I’d include John Kerry’s decision in 2004.
#38 – Anyone who could listen to Dubya Bush for years and still make a brainless pun like “dumbocrats”… how do you type with your finger up your nose? Just curious.
#35, what happened? Did someone piss in your corn flakes this morning?
Regardless if it’s a kid, Santorum put his kids in his campaign commercials to make him look. He put the kids on the stage with him, again to make him look good. The kid flipped off the entire audience. Accidental or not, he did it and I expect the FCC to investigate and fine all those who broadcast this.
And what is it with that effen kid with the doll? I know Santorum home schools his kids, but even so, there comes a time to put down the baby toys and grow up.
If he is giving the finger.. Who to?
Us or maybe his dad.. If that’s his son, why isn’t he in on the group hug?
A perfect example of how photos lie. You have obviously never worn glasses. It is very natural to adjust the glasses that way.
Calling attention to this picture is unfair and shows us much more about you than the poor kid.
@Improbus
As a fellow Libertarian, I feel obliged to ask, if you say you are a Libertarian, then why don’t you vote Libertarian? The two-party system can never change if all those who claim to be members of the various third-parties simply vote for R’s of D’s. In the past, Repubs were much closer to our values, but these days neither party has anything to do with us. They both want more power and to stay in power. And Dems are basically just socialists these days, the total opposite of what this country needs.
I am also very glad that many Republicans were fired on 11/7. However, it is also sad that the only people there to replace them were Democrats. I can’t wait until we get a member of the LP into the national level of gov.
Its a straight LP ticket for the rest of my life!
I was never a big fan of Santorum, but Pennsylvania got screwed with Bob Casey Jr. Even God himself weighed in on that election, as the PA Daily Number came up 666 on election day.
I have friends who are hard-core democrats who hate Casey Jr. and his old man. Bob Casey Sr. was a lying weasel as anyone who was in state government during his tenure can attest to. The kid is no better.
What we really need in today’s election process is an extra choice entitled “NONE OF THE ABOVE.” If 50.1 percent of the voters go for this choice then no candidate wins and the parties need to come up with better candidates. I’m tired of voting for the lesser of two weasels every time I go to the polls.
#35
You may have read the news wrong… The DEMOCRATIC party won. Not the Anti- American Party.
I can tell you this because I am a Democrat and I am not anti-American. I guess the real distinction is that Democrats believe in America. Republicans believe in “my country right or wrong”. Democrats seek the right solutions for America and justice for all Americans. Republicans seek easy solutions for those they consider the “right” people and don’t care about justice as much as maintaining lockstep with whomever is powerful at the moment. Democrats are more liberal and Republicans are more conservative…
And you are going to liberals are anti-american, and thus you’ll say I am anti-american, so I’ll remind you that liberals ended slavery in this country. Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote. Liberals created Social Security and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty. Liberals ended segregation. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act. What did Conservatives do? They opposed everything I just mentioned. And just one other thing… Democrats comprise the largest number of fallen American soldiers in foreign conflicts such as WWII.
#48 – And Dems are basically just socialists these days, the total opposite of what this country needs.
Wow. You managed to be wrong twice with only one sentence…
Libertarians are Republicans who can’t afford the party dues.
# 51: After the Demoncrats raise your taxes, lets see what you can afford.
Live Free or Die !!!!!
#52, # 51: After the Demoncrats raise your taxes, lets see what you can afford.
Live Free or Die !!!!!
Comment by BgScryAnml — 11/9/2006 @ 5:23 pm
I have no idea if the Democrats will raise taxes, but maybe you could suggest a way to pay for the massive debts piled up under Republican Presidents? Were you planning on leaving all that debt for MY kids to pay?
Republicans live free and expect Democrats to pay.
#53 Mr. H. Fusion Just encase you haven’t noticed the debt is shrinking not growing. NEWS FLASH for Mr. Fusion — Demoncrats are synonymous with raising taxes.
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