Santorum To Pen ‘Inquirer’ Column I Won’t Read

Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week has been going great so far, in the sense that I haven’t had to write about it. (Now that I’m doing this post, it is going considerably less swimmingly.)

At Penn the event is actually called Terrorism Awareness Week, because the College Republicans wimped out and changed the name because some groups protested. (At Penn, people will protest anything, including — but not limited to — Harlem Globetrotters victories, the sun coming up and giant robots destroying buildings.)

Ex-Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum will be speaking at the event, but the real story is buried in this Inquirer article about him. It’s even in brackets!

[Santorum also will begin writing an op-ed column for The Inquirer next month, alternating weeks with George E. Curry, the former editor in chief of Emerge magazine and former Washington correspondent for the Chicago Tribune.]

That’s 26 weeks a year of sweet, sweet Santorum, all over your Inquirer. (Ew.) This was originally reported on by Phillymag earlier this year, but it seemed unlikely Santorum would actually ever write this column.

In response to this new Santorum column, Michael Smerconish will begin writing new columns for three different newspapers a week until he has one in every single paper in the area.

After name conflict, groups begin events [Daily Pennsylvanian]
Santorum presses his case against Islamic extremism [Inquirer]
March 1: ‘Inquirer’ Unaware If We Were Still Interested In What Rick Santorum Had To Say, We Would Have Voted For Him