Santorum Claims He Thought Grindr Was a Coffee App

[arcane1]

Former U.S. presidential candidate Rick Santorum has issued a statement claiming that he didn't know what the gay dating app he downloaded to his iPhone was for when he downloaded it.

The 51 year old former senator from the state of Pennsylvania was caught Friday when during an interview with a reporter he took out his iPhone to answer an emergency call from his wife.

During the 10 second interval it took for Santorum to figure out how to answer the call, the reporter noticed the distinctive icon for Grindr - "the world's biggest mobile network of guys" - on the conservative, catholic father of seven's home screen.

"Is that - is that - Grindr Mr. Santorum?" the young reporter can be heard saying on videotape of the incident." America's number one gay dating app?"

"Grindr? What's no? The yellow one? Oh right. OK. Grindr. Like coffee grinds. Yeah that's something I downloaded for coffee. It finds the nearest Starbucks."

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link: http://dailycurrant.com/2012/07/03/santorum-claims-thought-grindr-coffee-app/

[morningfog]

1. Is this for real? Is Ricky a closet case?

I mean did this really happen? If he has Grindr on his iphone, it is not because he thought it was for coffee. He downloaded it and kept it for a reason. That reason has nothing remotely to do with coffee. That is not a mistake you could even make.

[arcane1]

3. Found it on Facebook, it's parody

but hilarious

[nadine_mn]

4. Satire - daily currant is like the onion

but.... there is always an element of truth in humor

[morningfog]

6. I was suspicious. Good satire is believable.

[Lucy Goosey]

8. It's satire.

From the "about" section at the Daily Currant

Q. Are your newstories real?A. No. Our stories are purely fictional. However they are meant to address real-world issues though satire and often refer and link to real events happening in the world

I'm not saying Ricky isn't a closet case, but this particular story isn't real.

[Pilotguy]

2. Called It!!!

[lame54]

5. I didn't know Starbucks had glory holes

[Pilotguy]

7. Satire folks. But comically believable.

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[47of74]

12. And apparently some people thought it was real

It's so believable that some people thought it was a real story;

Did Rick Santorum really claim that he thought Grindr, a gay dating app for the iPhone, was instead an app for finding the nearest coffee shop? Absolutely not.

The confusion stemmed from an article titled “Santorum Claims He Thought Grindr Was a Coffee App,” which was published by The Daily Currant on Tuesday.

The Daily Currant, however, is a fake and satirical news site, akin to The Onion. It covers politics, business, technology and a handful of other verticals, using well-written humor to make social commentary.

Check out some other recent headlines: “Hedge Funds Thinking About Collapsing Denmark’s Economy Next Year,” “Matt Drudge Wins Web Design’s Highest Honor” and “Vegetarianism ‘More Dangerous Than Smokin

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. I love the Drudge one:

Matt Drudge - the conservative American political blogger who runs the popular website The Drudge Report - has been awarded an honorary Webby award for "Lifetime Achievement in Web Design Conservation and Consistency".
...
Most impressive to the Webby judges, however, is the fact that Drudge has been able to accomplish such success without using a single principle of web design developed since 1997 - the year Steve Jobs returned to Apple and Lycos was the internet's leading search engine.

"We just don't know how he does it,'" explains Susan Toledo, a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and former Webby judge "His homepage is literally a giant blotch of white, with one advertisement and one headline. And below the fold its a just a few columns with lists of hyperlinks in a ridiculous font no one can read."
...
"We had to give him something eventually," says Toledo "He's obviously doing something right, and even if we can't see what it is the IADAS should be on the right side of history. We think he might be like Picasso - a web design genius that will only be appreciated by future generations."

http://dailycurrant.com/2012/04/23/matt-drudge-wins-web-designs-highest-honor/

[unblock]

9. for those unfamiliar with dailycurrant:

sadly, it is satire, and obviously so. santorum's staff is obviously capable of arranging a grindr hook-up

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Q. Are your newstories real?

A. No. Our stories are purely fictional. However they are meant to address real-world issues though satire and often refer and link to real events happening in the world

[Xyzse]

10. Uh...

I guess not real then, oh well.

[Scootaloo]

11. "It finds the nearest starbucks"

Maaaan. Ray Charles could find the nearest Starbucks; and he's been dead for eight years!

[Scuba]

13. Just a "wide stance", hey Rickie?