On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
Santorum is not just being victimized by Dan Savage or the news media or the world--he's being victimized by *us*. That makes it our job. Just because it's an already existing campaign doesn't mean we have no responsibility when a search for his name brings up this article as the #3 hit (and #2 if you only search for his last name).
We're just recording what has already been discussed in 132 reliable sources. We're not "victimizing" him any more than we are victimizing Silvio Berlusconi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlusconi#Sexual_scandals) or John Edwards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edwards_extramarital_affair) or John Kerry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry_military_service_controversy) or Anthony Weiner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Weiner#Twitter_controversy). The Kerry example is especially pertinent as both it and the Santorum article are an entire Wikipedia article about things that other people made up about the subject of the article.