Rick Santorum and the Eye of Mordor

[webofevil]

This article (and thanks to spyinthehaus for spotting it) is lifted wholesale from salon.com. In keeping with their “sponsored day-pass” policy, please stare at a nearby advert for thirty seconds before reading it.

Rick Santorum and the “Eye of Mordor”

by Tim Grieve, salon.com, 17 October

In an interview with the editorial board of the Bucks County Courier Times, embattled Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum has equated the war in Iraq with JRR Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings.” According to the paper, Santorum said that the United States has avoided terrorist attacks at home over the past five years because the “Eye of Mordor” has been focused on Iraq instead.

“As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else," Santorum said. “It’s being drawn to Iraq and it’s not being drawn to the US. You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the Eye to come back here to the United States.”

We’re sure that we wouldn’t either, if only we had the slightest idea of what Santorum was saying. The Courier Times translates for those of us who are not so conversant in spooky Tolkienese: The “Eye of Mordor,” it seems, was “the tool the evil Lord Sauron used in search of the magical ring that would consolidate his power over Middle-earth.”

That's meant to be an eye?

Comments

[chiller.livejournal.com]

You've just broken the EYE for me. For ever.

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

Messenger! Don't shoot!

[chiller.livejournal.com]

You would've thought someone would've pointed it out to Peter Jackson during the editing sessions.

"Hey, Pete ... have you ever looked at that EYE and had funny feelings in your trousers?"

[spyinthehaus.livejournal.com]

Colbert explains it all.