Santorum: "The Eye of Mordor is on Iraq"

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Embattled U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum said America has avoided a second terrorist attack for five years because the “Eye of Mordor” has been drawn to Iraq instead.

Santorum used the analogy from one of his favorite books, J.R.R. Tolkien's 1950s fantasy classic “Lord of the Rings,” to put an increasingly unpopular war in Iraq into terms any school kid could easily understand.

“As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else,” Santorum said, describing the tool the evil Lord Sauron used in search of the magical ring that would consolidate his power over Middle-earth.

“It's being drawn to Iraq and it's not being drawn to the U.S.,” Santorum continued. “You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the Eye to come back here to the United States.”

In an interview with the editorial board of the Bucks County Courier Times, sister paper of The Intelligencer, the 12-year Republican senator from Pennsylvania said he's “a big "Lord of the Rings' fan.” He's read the first of the series, “The Hobbit” to his six children.

A spokesman for Democratic opponent Bob Casey Jr. questioned the appropriateness of the analogy.

“You have to really question the judgment of a U.S. senator who compares the war in Iraq to a fantasy book,” said Casey spokesman Larry Smar.

John J Miller: "I think this voter bloc will now swing toward Santorum."

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

I don't understand who's supposed to be Sauron is this batty analogy.

― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.wheatear.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/spain/cuckoo.JPG

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

This doesn't beat Ari Fleischer comparing himself to Frodo.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

so our nation is run by a bunch of lord of the rings worshipping pederasts

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

For some reason I feel like this is the full-circle moment for the Ornaldo Bloomps Presidetnal Campagin.

― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

so, is this the natural progression of those "FRODO FAILED!!" photoshops from five years ago, or closer to the hilariously overextended "war on terra like fellowship of ring" flavor?

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

I thought this was an Onion article at first

― vingt regards (vignt_regards), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

I think he's a little confused, he seems to be claiming that Mt. Doom is in America. Is the hobbit menace sneaking in across our unprotected borders!?!?!

― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

wait i thot he was in the harry potter is devil camp? there goes his base.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Shunned by Republican colleagues after "Mordor" gaffe, Senator Santorum forms splinter Muggles party and claims that the "dark side of The Force" is gathering near Pyongyang.

― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

Old news, that:

http://img190.exs.cx/img190/1039/nkryugyonghotel2ob.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

I first read this as "The Eye of Moroder is on Iraq"

http://www.disco-disco.com/images/giorgio-emc2-cd.jpg

WEST SIDE/Bass ---------- Baghdad ------------- EAST SIDE/Delay

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

He wants to keep the Eye of Mordor on Iraq so that something like 3k Americans can be killed* and 30k wounded there, instead of something like 3k Americans being killed in a repeat of Sept. 11 here. This is because he's in the pocket of the Military / International-Corpse-Transport Complex.

(* = Plus 100k or howevermany Iraqi civilians.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

I thought the latest estimates was 650,000 Iraqis killed.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

I read this to a friend from Pennsylvania. She said, "Wow, that guy really needs to be voted out of office." And she's ordered an absentee ballot, luckily.

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 19 October 2006 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.santorumwatch.org/

― R_S (RSLaRue), Thursday, 19 October 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

(Sorry, that doesn't seem to have been updated for a while.)

― R_S (RSLaRue), Thursday, 19 October 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

i dunno, i went to penn state, big engineering school there. BIG. could be a smart play to a new base for him.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 19 October 2006 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

yeah the i'd rather fight them over there meme is really sickening, yet it gets brought up over and over again like it's some how reasonable to destroy another country cause we're scared something bad might happen in ours. it's like finding a bomb in yr basement and putting it in yr neighbor's basement - except in this case there was no bomb in our basement so we went out and maxed out our credit cards, called in some favors and told a bunch of lies to get a bomb to put in our neighbor's basement.

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 19 October 2006 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

six years pass...

Still hilarious.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-term-middle-class-marxism-talk

Rick Santorum says the term “middle class” is “Marxism talk” since America doesn’t have any classes. “Since when in America do we have classes?” Santorum asked a Republican gathering in Lyon County, Iowa, “There’s no class in America.”

― cops on horse (WilliamC), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 13:42 (twelve years ago)

agree that Santorum is classless tbf

― failed skirty tropes (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 13:56 (twelve years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.