From today's Hotline
Boston Globe's McGrory writes, Santorum's '02 comments on the Catholic Online website regarding the priest/pedophile scandal have recently been brought to light. He wrote: "When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political, and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm."McGrory: "So thank you, senator, for setting us straight about the problems with the clergy. Thank you for letting us know that all those pedophilic priests and the church leaders who covered up their crimes are the fault of every Bostonian."
Santorum aide Robert Traynham: "It's an open secret that you have Harvard University and MIT that tend to tilt to the left in terms of academic biases. I think that's what the senator was speaking to." McGrory: "Of course. The whole thing's MIT's fault."
McGrory: "I asked" Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) about this, since "he's starting to hang out" in Santorum's conservative "crowd." Romney spokesperson Julie Teer responded: "What happened with the church sex abuse scandal was a tragedy, but it had nothing to do with geography or the culture of Boston."
More McGrory: if Santorum were to visit, "he'd find a city that is pretty much the birthplace of civil political discourse, a concept that Santorum essentially violates every time he opens his mouth" (7/12).
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