Santorum gets "glitter-bombed"

By: Naureen Khan
Topics: Campaign 2012

Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum signs his autograph on a hat during a campaign stop at a restaurant and bar on Dec. 30, 2011 in Ames, Iowa.

(Credit: AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

JOHNSTON, Iowa -- Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum was greeted with a fistful of glitter as he arrived at his final campaign event Friday night.

An unidentified man shouted "Stop the hate! Taste the rainbow!" as he threw glitter at the former Pennsylvania senator before being ushered out of Okoboji Grille, where Santorum was scheduled to watch Iowa and Oklahoma in the Insight Bowl. Santorum nonchalantly brushed the purple glitter off his shoulders and walked away without acknowledging the man.

"Glitter-bombing" has becoming the emerging form of protests of certain gay rights activists. Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich was glitter-bombed at a book signing in September. The socially conservative Santorum has made family values and opposition to same-sex marriage central planks of his campaign.

Naureen Khan
Naureen Khan covers the 2012 presidential campaign for CBS News and National Journal.
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by google222 December 31, 2011 12:14 PM EST: Sen. Rick Santorum thought enough of Jerry "Pedophile" Sandusky to sponsor the former Penn State defense coordinator for a "Congressional Angels in Adoption" award, citing his work with a non-profit group he founded to provide care for foster children. Santorum is an idiot for not being able to spot this PEDOPHILE a mile away. Of course Rick Santorum went to Penn State himself and is probably involved in the Pedd State cover-up scandal; Reply to this comment

by bsrasmus December 31, 2011 1:53 AM EST

Who is the one hating? The one peacefully going about his business? Or the one assaulting a peaceful, law-abiding man? I think it's clear that the assaulter is the one hating.

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by Former_Marine_Sgt December 31, 2011 10:18 AM EST: Assaulting him? Throwing glitter is now an assault? Wow... And you sure get that the 'glitter guy' was full of hate by his blatant hate speech where he said 'Stop the hate' and
'Taste The Rainbow' - yeah, that's hate speech alright.

It's nothing like the clearly submissive 'love speech' that Santorum uses when he directly links homosexuality with bestialiy and pedophelia. Where he spews his hatred for gays by treating them as less than human and an evil greater than terrorism, etc.

How about the assaults that Santorum has perpetrated upon anyone who dares think in ways different from him?

Have you ever listened to what Santorum actually says?


by WalterWaitingFor2012 December 31, 2011 1:12 AM EST: So pathetic ain't it? Santorum is so broke he probably set this up as a publicity stunt.

"Taliban aren't as extreme as the Evangelical Christian Right conservative freaks.; Reply to this comment


by bwendorff December 31, 2011 12:30 AM EST: The football game was between the University of Iowa Hawkeyes and Oklahoma. Iowa State is an entirely different university.; Reply to this comment