I know the format that usually holds for these sorts of Slog posts: I'm supposed to put up a headline that has a Santorum pun in it and then make a few comments about how Rick Santorum is an idiot before jumping into the news. But I can't do that today. I can't do that as a response to this video of Rick Santorum using the occasion of Nelson Mandela's death to compare Obamacare to apartheid:

Fuck you, Rick Santorum. Seriously, fuuuuuuuuuuuuck you*. This isn't anywhere near the worst thing that you've ever said, but the timing of it is just reprehensible.

I'd like to use this clip as an example to encourage every other Republican in America to shut up for the next few days. We all know that even if you weren't personally around to rail against Mandela during the 1980s, the political example you're setting today isn't at all spiritually different from the Republican Party that coddled apartheid back then. Just show some respect and shut the fuck up. Let Santorum serve as your warning. Using Mandela as a way to attack a government program that's trying to provide health care to all Americans is a dipshit move, and you will look like Rick Santorum if you try, which is to say, you will look like a total fucking insensitive idiot. Just shut up and let the world pay our respects in peace. Please and thank you.

* I'd say something about Bill O'Reilly's comments, too, but Bill O'Reilly is the right's Larry King now, an air-headed elderly softball-lobber who can't be held responsible for his words because he wouldn't know reality if it crawled up his ass and died. He's beneath contempt. He's beneath pity, too. He's just a rack of ribs with a floppy rubber face mask at this point. We should jgnore him the way we ignore ugly furniture at our grandmother's house. He's an unappealing object from a different time that will probably be sent to the junk heap soon.