Santorum: "I didn't ~really~ mean that Puerto Ricans should just speak English!"

[ennifer_jay]

Rick Santorum Walks Back Puerto Rico Remarks
By KASIE HUNT 03/15/12 04:22 PM ET

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Rick Santorum came to Puerto Rico and promptly waded into the emotional debate over the role English should play in the island's future, sparking a furor that led the former Pennsylvania senator to insist his remarks were misreported.

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[hypermuseic9]

the tags are killing me.

this idiot tho. i can't.

[wicked_g]

"This needs to be a bilingual country, not just a Spanish-speaking country. Right now, it is overwhelmingly just Spanish," Santorum told reporters Thursday.

Ooohhh...Ricky. You were...kinda close to saying something humanly decent. And then you kept talking. I think what you meant to say you meant to say was:

"This needs to be a bilingual country."

Corrected that for you. And yeah, I'm from Canada and I don't speak Quebecois, so casting stones, glass houses, etc, but...

[turkwriter]

OMG, a Real Housewives of Disney GIF.

[ohmiya_sg]

One more:

[squee4242]

[koken23]

Por favor conchatumadre...cierra la boca!

(I will translate this for you if you like, Santorum, but you probably won't like it any better in English.)

[emofordino]

jajaja, gracias por esa! estoy de acuerdo!

[nyxelestia]

Ojalá que...

>.

[layweed]

It was just a mistake right? You just "misspoke". You "didn't mean it". It was "misreported by the liberal elite media".

Asshole.

[pennylane101]

ikr? such a spineless hypocrytic asshole

[13chapters]

no entiendo nada de rick santorum. y no es porque de la lengua.

[koken23]

+1

[ennifer_jay]

+1

[bluebeard]

lo que yo no entiendo es tu segunda oración. ;)

"y no es porque de la lengua" sounds distinctly ungrammatical and un-español to me.

¿me pregunto por qué será...? ;)

o, wait, probably because it's google-translate for "and not because of the language"

what you mean is "y no por causa del idioma" or "y no estoy hablando del idioma" :P