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Rubber Ducks Quack About Santorum's Environmental Record

Wednesday, Oct. 18; 4:25 pm

As if he doesn't have enough enemies, embattled Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) has now earned the enmity of rubber ducks.

A handful of the yellow toys are the stars of a new anti-Santorum TV ad being aired by National Wildlife Action, the political arm of the National Wildlife Federation.

In the ad, one of the ducks swims erratically around a pond while his friends wonder what's wrong. Turns out, the duck ate a fish laden with mercury poisoning.

The ducks, who sound a little like Jackie Gleason and Ed Norton, agree that their habitat has gotten too polluted and contemplate an escape.

"Before they leave," a narrator chimes in, "call Rick Santorum and tell him to quit ducking the realities of global warming and mercury poisoning."

All public polls have shown the two-term Senator trailing state Treasurer Bob Casey Jr. (D).

-- Josh Kurtz