I aspire to snark, but there are times when one must defer to a master of the art. Tony Norman of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has been on a tear lately. Today he writes in the form of a letter to the Allegheny County's Office of Children, Youth and Families, the local child-abuse people.

... the television ads featuring the children of Sen. Rick Santorum testifying to his paternal greatness prompted me to contact CYF. The sight of those poor devils conscripted into their father's doomed re-election campaign moved me to tears.

The ad opens with Johnny "Damian" Santorum telling a big lie: "My dad's opponents have criticized him for moving us to Washington so we could be with him more."

Johnny's disingenuous characterization is followed by Daniel "The Hammer" Santorum's glib summary of the Penn Hills cyber school kerfuffle: "And they criticized us for attending a Pennsylvania public school over the Internet."

Oh, out of the mouths of babes came two big lies. Read more…