I know it’s reflexive and fun and easy for Santorum to blame the media and act like they are out to get him, but he’s wrong. You are running for president, you are having lots of success, and your biggest donor is going on TV to talk about you and your candidacy. If that person says something pretty outrageous, it’s not unreasonable or an example of liberal media bias to question you about it. If you think it’s unfair and an example of bias against you, then you shouldn’t be running for president.

How would Chris Christie handle the stupid questions?

“A guy told an old joke, Chuck. Lighten up. Whaddya want from me?”

He sure is all Frothy this morning…. His Women vote went 19 points below Mitt Romney’s this week.

You won by fooling people in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado by calling yourself a social conservative, when you are in fact a hypocrite!

The man from the 11th century who will nver be president should just entertain us and stop moaning. Hey Santorum, if you don’t like it, you can quit. You will have to eventually, anyway.

It wasn’t outrageous.  It was an old joke that mean’t that women of that era had no choice.  It wasn’t making fun of women, it wasn’t making fun of men – it was what was before the pill was readily available.  

The left media and people like you making it into something it wasn’t is freaking stupid and indicates that you guys have no clue – and figure you can just throw crap out there and you all parrot how horrible it was.

Nothing horrible.  Nothing really – but hell I think he just murdered his Mother!

 Ancient dumb joke = not outrageous.

It was a bad joke.  I am 65 years old and heard the line 50 years ago.  Put an aspirin between the knees.  As long as the girl/woman kept her legs together, she was not going to get pregnant! 

Come on, Rick. You have the angry, white guy vote all locked up. However, that is about 20% of the voters. You are a few decades, no centuries behind on the social issues. If I was you, I would be taking every opportunity to separate myself from this creep who attempts to make light of the contraception issue, when you, your idiot supporter and the Catholic church all share the same outdated view. 

LOL. Wow way to laser in on one word. Fine, dumb, not outrageous. And I never said I am offended by it or that he is making fun of women. I’m sure old codgers like him say stuff like that all the time. I still don’t believe it’s way out of line to question the candidate about it. Some people seem to go out of their way looking for any example they can of media bias and that is freaking stupid. The media will have moved on by this afternoon.

Good for Santorum for calling out a liberal like Charlie Rose like that. 

His point about Rev Wright is spot on, but just because the networks (except Fox News) covered for Obama and never asked him pointed questions doesn’t mean Santorum gets a pass.  After the first story yesterday about Andrea Mitchell being “stunned” many of us, on both sides of the aisle, recognized it as an old joke and a wives tale.  Many recalled actually being told this when they were young.   As it happens, even though it was a joke it was still a stunning statement, like if someone were to joke that anyone marrying Mike Tyson should expect to get punched – I can see how that could be seen as funny, but most would be appalled especially if the topic of the week was violence against women.  So, although I agree Santorum shouldn’t have to address the actual joke, I think its entirely appropriate for many of his interviews this week to include questions on what he thinks contraceptive options are.

Yeah ol’ Rick sure showed Charlie. Charlie will never ask a reasonable question of a presidential candidate again! 

Sanctions are not pro-democracy!  They are an act of war.  They raise the price of food and starve people to death.  What has sanctions accomplished in North Korea.  

 I knew someone would engage in revisionist history. I should have known it would be you Chuck. Google is your friend. Google Barack Obama Jeremiah Wright or something along those lines. Every major (and minor) media outlet in America covered Obama/Wright long before election day. Read the book The Battle For America, about the 2008 election. Obama talks to the writers about the Wright controversy in it, long before election day. I know conservatives and media bashers like to convince themselves that the media ignored Wright to protect Obama, but the facts completely contradict that belief.

Good for Rick.He is exactley right.First off it was a harmless joke and was even funnier when it was told to Andrea Mitchell. I know the old guy should have never told such a filthy discusting gut wrenching joke suggesting abstinence but he did.
This is the same bent out shape left wing media that praises and celebrates gay parades showing men screwing each other doggy style dressed in goat clothes riding  on a float through downtown SFran infront of 10 year olds.

The strain is beginning to show. Santorum should not be appearing petulant at what is a rather innocuous question. You put these campaign surrogates out there for a reason (even those who contribute heavily to your campaign), and it’s not to embarrass the candidate. Rather than get pissy with Charlie Rose he ought to have a few words with his benefactor, or just cut him loose.

So you know this because you attend or participate in those parades? 

Santorum’s been answering the question for 2 days now, and the answer is really simple, really obvious. http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/santorum-describes-friess-aspirin-comment-as-a-b

The question tells us more about the questioner than it does the candidate.

The media will have moved on by this afternoon.

After they find another total non-issue to be OUTRAGED!!!! about.

Wait, so Santorum is not a social conservative? Interesting.

The joke certainly wasn’t “outrageous” but it lent credence to the idea that Santorum and those around him are a bit antiquated in their views of womens’ roles and rights.

Comments like these are only really relevant when they play to an existing narrative about the candidate, which this one did. It was the same for Bachmann (every time she got her facts wrong it reinforced the notion that she was loose with the truth) and Perry (every time he flubbed a line it confirmed that he was a dunce) and Cain (his “uzbekibekistanstan” showed how ill equipped he was to deal with complex issues). And God knows Romney’s comments about how his $300,000+ income “wasn’t very much” showed how out of touch he is with the common man.

Santorum isn’t being held to a higher standard than any other candidate.

Wearing their Assless Chaps.

I agree, the media does like to obsess over non-issues. No argument here. I just don’t think that every time they do so is an example of bias against conservatives or conservative candidates.

Another Media Matters Outlet!

This is what the Slime Media on the Left does, they use ancillary issues to create the disparaging narrative they seek in portraying Republicans.
You didn’t see this “Gotcha” kind of question over real character questions, like Obama’s Black Separatist minister, or Ayer’s, or a demand for his college writings on Marxism.

NEVER trust the White House-Media Matters “news” outlets!

 They are holding him to a double-standard…they don’t call out anything on Obama or Romney.

 Not in the eyes of some Ron Paul supporters apparently.

 He is sick and so am I as a woman of this being all that the media can talk about.  There are much more important issues to deal with…he wants to talk about jobs, taxes… common wake up.

Just answer the question Senator.

 Santorum did NOT say it…it was an elderly man who just made a bad joke…GROW UP AMERICA.

 RICK did not say it.

Really? Romney gets a free pass from the media (when he actually sits down for an interview)? He’s never been asked a tough question by them?

As for Obama being given a free pass by the media, well, “Pew: Media not in love with Obama.” http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66099.html

I recall an candidate for governor in Texas, a Republican, cruising for the Governor’s Mansion who made just such a dumb joke, a joke demeaning of women. Ann Richards, of fond memory, then cruised into the Governor’s Mansion. This situation is somewhat different. The silly old fool is not the candidate. True, neither joke is funny. Both are demeaning and dismissive of women. Mr. Clayton’s joke was more shocking and offensive. Still, Sanitarium needs to avoid being prickly and defensive. He’s being Romneyesque. He needs to state he didn’t find the joke amusing.

Looks as if ole Rick is using a page out The Newts playbook, if you don’t want to respond to the press just accuse them of bias or the ‘gotcha question’ or the old tried and true ‘It’s Obama’s fault’ or Obama’s preachers fault or… Rick, bottom line, you tied your horse to this buggy you gotta deal with the smell.

How is a reminiscence of a time before birth control was available demeaning and dismissive of women?

Ditto.  The Wright thing popped up and was the “sensation story of the week” among all the media outlets (much like this “aspirin” thing is now) several times in 2008–first in the primaries then again when conservatives revived it as a point of attack as the election wore on.  Anyone who didn’t see it wasn’t paying attention.

It seems to me that Santorum is just trying to steal Gingrich’s act here by attempting to put a controversy to rest by flipping the story and trying to turn it on the media.  Only problem is that Santorum isn’t as firey or magnetic speaker as Gingrich, so I don’t think this will work as well for him as it did for Gingrich when he successfully turned that “open marriage” story to his own advantage. 

Good for Santorum – it is high time you media folks sent a message to your own colleagues – WE ARE BORED AND PISSED OFF AT YOUR STUPID ANTICS.

The double standard is pathetic – you treat Obama and the Dems like they are gods – we know you all vote for them, but you have a job to do and it is not to campaign for the democrats.
Charlie only hurts CBS and himself; Santorum is on the high road on this one.

you giave Obama a pass for anything/everything – you can’t get away with gotchaing anything and everyting assocaited with republicans without making yourselves look like the clymers here.

Speaking of tired questions…. WHERE IS OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE???!!! Still NEVER SEEN! The only copy of a copy was hacked and proven….. still waiting. He can’t produce one, why???
There is a good, tired question for you!

What is so hard about saying he doesn’t agree with it? He throws a tantrum like a 12-year old.

Making light of the contraception issue? What issue is that? Was there a contraceptive factory explosion or something? What’s going on that’s off limits for humor?

It sounds like a joke some of my older male relatives would make or find funny. This guy probably isn’t used to doing TV interviews.

 ”Santorum isn’t being held to a higher standard than any other candidate.”

… except Obama.

Yeah!

Conservative media covered it, how many months went by before NBC mentioned it? Most of the stories you saw on the other networks were stories about the conservatives criticizing Obama.  With little exception, you never saw the networks doing their own probing interviews or investigations, without them coming to the foregone defense of Obama.   Please don’t hurt yourself bending over backwards to create a defense of other liberals who choose not to criticize Obama.

It’s the same old liberal Character assasination.  Kinda like Jedi Mind Tricks.  Name calling and insults over and over.  Gets really old because it’s all so predictable.

I like how Santorum was “furious” with a smile on his face throughout and without so much as raising his voice. 

It ain’t my eyes.  It is his words. :->
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/15/rick-santorum-conservative-pro-life-ronald-reagan_n_1280033.html

I sense that the rest of 2012 will see more and more reasonable media challenge the Lame Stream on their character assassination tactics.  It’s not good for them, their listeners or the country.  In reality, the Lame Liberal Left Media has taught too many weak Americans to HATE.

That’s what he said at the top of the clip. That was a very calm, smiling tantrum, btw. Perhaps the way a 12 year old should throw.

Not only will Barry be exposed this year, he will be torn to shreds for a wicked past that he has been hiding.  Everyone has a past, even the great and powerful ledgend in his own mind, Barry Soetoro.

Somebodys been hanging at World Net Daily again.

Romney definitely gets a free pass on Fox, while most other candidates in the GOP primary get a harder time.  Fox News anointed Romney the winner months ago and it kind of shows in their coverage.  Especially when the entire network nearly went hysterical when Gingrich won South Carolina.

I’m still waiting to see how they (and other conservatives in the media) react to Santorum.  Many conservative pundits don’t seem enamored with the idea of a Santorum candidacy, but it seems like they are reluctant to attack him yet with the same ferocity that they did Gingrich.  I suspect they are just waiting to see if his bump is temporary or just hoping that he’ll say something stupid and hang himself.  However, if he wins Michigan the knives will come out.

I’m not bending Chuck. You are going out of your way to justify your belief that the media protected Obama because that aligns with your political views, but it is not reality. Again, do a Google search. It takes less than a second. Every major media outlet covered it. They did not ignore it. Maybe you believe they weren’t critical enough, but they covered it.

 He doesn’t seem like an angry guy.

It wasn’t outrageous. It was just an untimely stupid comment from an old fart that, of course, is going to be brought into the conversation of contraception use since that has become a big news story created by the right as a political wedge issue.  (They are running out of wedges.)  And since Santorum is suddenly a front runner his radical theocratic views of contraceptive use should be brought into question… a proper role of journalism.  Voters should know what Santorum is truly about.

However, what was outrageous was your incensed narrow-minded tirade over the media.  I guess the media should kiss all you right wing’s asses… right. 

WAR AGAINST THE DEMOCRATIC MEDIA!

That was very descriptive, I think you might be hiding something about yourself.

“What is your name?” is a Gotcha question to a republican.

I noticed that your avatar appears to be a surgeon. I hope that’s your brain surgeon, because clearly you’re suffering from serious memory loss.

From flag pins to “palling around with terrorists,” Obama was subject to the same inane questioning that these folks are.

Good luck with your recovery there, JSC.

Where the outrage when Obama was head cheerleader in the senate for the type of abortion that he help make legal that allows a doctor to kill the child after failing to suck it brains out?
How that pro choice? How much choice does that kid have?
They don’t even do that when they hang a guy.If the rope breaks the guy goes free.
In Obamas legistlation if they fail to suck the brains out of kid with a hoover.They just kill him afterwards.

Thats the big difference between conservatives and progressives; we conservatives can make our point while controlling our anger; whereas libs scream razizm, camp out in city parks defecating and forn i kating in public, curse and call us names.
Its called being civil; a word missing in the lib dictionary.

Yeah I wanted to wave to you on the float.

And there’s the point “critical enough”.   That goes to the ideology.  I do believe they weren’t critical enough (or at all in most cases).  We see this phenomenon repeated every day in liberal media, where conservatives are interrogated when interviewed while the same interviewer gives Democrats softball questions.    

All he was asked is whether his opinion matched the opinion of his biggest financial  supporter.  He could have clearly said “NO, I don’t and it is a very disgusting form of thinking”.  If he said that it would have been over.  But he didn’t do that.  He tried to bury it as a “bad joke”.  Anyone who watched Foster Friess knows he wasn’t joking and had the least concern about health of a woman.

Just why did the lame stream media ignore Obummers 20 years of occupation in Wrights pews, get married by this fanatic, then after enormous pressure from conservatives disown Wright. HMMMM? Why are they still ignoring all the legitimate questions about obummer? Why are they not investigating Obummers past that he spent millions to hide from Americans?

Careful what you wish for Cynthia, to use another old 50′s joke, if Santorum has his way you’ll be at home barefoot and pregnant fixin his dinner!

How right you are! Obama has the biggest Super-Pac in history shilling for him- the media! 

No wonder the Clintons were so frustrated when Hillary ran against Obama. The media did no vetting of Obama at all and proceeded to accuse Bill Clinton of being racist. 

The media pimps for Obama on a daily basis while the country is turning into a banana republic. If Obama is re-elected, we might as well pack it in and recognize that our President and his wife are our own version of Juan and Evita Peron.

You seem to be an expert on those parades and how the media covers them. Where do you get that knowledge?

And that’s perfectly fair Chuck. I disagree, but it’s a valid opinion, to believe that the media wasn’t fair in how they covered it. But that is a far cry from saying they did not cover it, which is not remotely true.

Right.  Super Liberal Charlie Rose of North Carolina.  I can list his “political” guests and give you my HackOMeter ratings, if you would like.

Rick Santorum bullying Charlie Rose — Class, Conservative Style

Conservative Cal Thomas apologized this week for not being civil at CPAC with his comments about Rachel Maddow. Try again. 

Let me translate your comment for those who don’t live inside the bubble:

Our candidates suck and no matter which loser we nominate, Obama is going to crush them, so we’d better start lining up our excuses now and the media is the perfect boogie-man.

How did this fail to turn up in 2008? Who has the information? Jerome Corsi? 

I think Santorum just realized that he slept with the Devil on this issue. Yes Rick, if you oppress women’s rights you will attract votes who bathe in gender discriminaation.

 lmao I remember that whole flag pin fiasco.

Why is something wrong with that are you some sort of left wing bigot?

I think Santurom should smack his wife whenever he talks about this issue, just to show he is the man of the house and consistently conservative against women’s rights.

The joke was that women who seek contraception need to stop having sex. Conservatives hate the modern world, that’s why they all marry women like Callista Gingrich.

Shouldn’t you little boys be out looking for a job?

 ”SHo Us The Berf CertifiCut! 

So you have ONE article stating media is not in love with Obama…….why has Obama been given a pass…..I watch news incessantly and have researched the Progressives and Obama…..oh let’s not forget George Soros.  Obama was not asked any difficult questions at all during his 08 campaign.  He stated Bill Ayers just lived in his neighborhood, yet we find now, that there has been more to it than that….why wasn’t the media checking facts rather than take them at face value?  They don’t do that with the Republican candidates…..Why is the MSM not digging into the stimulus and where the money has gone, Solyndra, Fast and Furious……these are just a few of the issues that should be looked into…..how about our loss of freedom/liberty?  MANDATING churches on contraceptives…..I could go on and on……if you are not bothered by these things, you are absolutely uninformed or just plain partisan…..either way, it is a disaster waiting to happen for our country…….oh year, it already HAS happened…..it’s called OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember the statistic of white men in jail with 80% of them becoming biches being raped everyday. Everytime I see Romney or Santorum I think about what biches they really are, taking it up the crackpipe.

That’s what I figured. Can’t answer because you have no idea what you’re talking about, so you attack rather than attempt to explain yourself. Keep up the intelligent posting.

I thought he was a biggot? That’s still the case right>??

Not sure what media your referring to, but the media I read reported on his preacher and discovered some of the crazy stuff he was saying from the pultpit, Obama did exactly what he should have done, dumped the guy. Are you mad because he left the church? I’ve never been to this church, so I don’t know what Obama heard or saw, have you? When you can give me first hand or taped knowledge of what Obama heard and saw then all you are doing is repeating conservative talking points. Old news nothing to see here.

Yeah! every other President has shown you their birth certificate why not Obama?

I remembered when Bush, Clinton and Regan showed their long forms to the public but not Obama!

if you’re a Republican and male. Not outrageous at all to be a biggoted prick in that party.

Try again. The Pew results received wide media coverage. I shared one example of that coverage. And after that rant you accuse others of being partisan? I love a good morning laugh.

Ewwwww…

Reeks of desperation trying to wipe off the Santorum in the morning.

Furious??????????  Really??? Really?  Watch the video.

What the hell are you talking about and why is it in a reply to me?

Ouch!

I think you got Santorum all over yourself

Ya they had a lot of old jokes, String ‘em up boy’s would be one!

 ”I thought…”

No you didn’t. That’s funny, though.

You are soooo right…I live in Illinois, the 2nd most corrupt state in the US (Obamas starting place) and when debating with a Progressive on the train one day, this guy disagreed on partial birth abortion…..he didn’t believe that it is being done……I told him to look into it and how Obama had voted on it and not to just listen to the msm without checking the facts…..I could see he was thinking and he promised he would look….my point is, that many of these people don’t even realize what they are talking about…..uninformed, misinformed, ignorant, partisan….take your pick

 I think you should shoot yourself in the head whenever you post a comment.

You seem to be awfully fixated on the frothy mix of anal lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex. You’ve been a busy boy, haven’t you?

Amazing, isn’t it?

Here’s where I am on this one-I think it is ridiculous to ask a candidate about a comment from a supporter (still can’t believe I’m almost defending Santorum on that)! But, my problem is with the method Santorum chose to attack…how can a question every media outlet has asked about in the last 24 hours be defined as a “gotcha question”? Is Santorum’s definition of “gotcha” any question he wishes he didn’t have to answer? I would say “gotcha” is being asked an unexpected question…clearly he had to expect it? If not…he needs to hire way more staff members to help him see the obvious coming at him.

Well your original comment was BS, NEPatriots, but you actually make a good point here.  It’s kind of disheartening that whenever someone makes an ignorant anti gay comment on here the response is always “Well you must be secretly gay yourself!”

Not only is that childish but it’s actually just as homophobic as the original comment in its own way.

A homophobe with an avatar of a guy bending over, the irony. Come on out of the closet, it is great being open and life is wonderful.

PS.  Giants rule.

Rick trying to rewrite history. Will work only with those who already remember the history as he does. Rick the angry preacher with a choir.

That’s how Rick should have handled it. The fact that he went all Palin over an inane question that he could easily have deflected just shows how ill prepared he is to be a candidate, much less president.

He could have said “I enjoy the support of many conservatives young and old. Some of them believe that contraception is solely a woman’s responsibility, some of them believe that the president was born in Kenya, some of them even believe in a different holy scripture. I’m not telling them I stand in lock step with every one of their beliefs, I’m just telling them that I’m the best hope they have for the future of our country.”

Now is that so hard? Don’t you want a president that can think on his feet? Even W was better at that sort of thing than Rick is. 

I do have to take some exception to your comment, Ditzy. Raygun turned us into a Banana Republic. And, to use Beckerheader logic, the first eight (8) letters in “Republican” are R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C. So, REPUBLICan, Banana REPUBLIC. See? And, let’s not forget the PUB in RePUBlican. We’re all swilling beer these days. That is why our nation took a downward spiral. But, President Obama is working hard at getting us out of the PUBs and ending our status as a Banana REPUBLIC.

ROSE: No one’s saying your responsible, Senator.   - Oh BS, Rose. Every interview he has done since it was said, has brought it up and linked it to him.
It was said by some old dude, who was telling a joke that is true. They used to say that stuff (not meant that it was an actual form of birth control!) but a point. 

Anyone remember this:

Jay Carney: First of all, those weren’t comments by the President. Secondly, as I think it’s been reported…

Jake Tapper: …comments by a union leader, at an event that President Obama spoke at…

Jay Carney: I understand that there is a ritual in Washington that, you know, somebody says something, and you link the associations, and then everybody who has an association with him or her has to avow or disavow. 

Jay Carney: Mr. Hoffa speaks for himself…The President speaks for himself, I speak for the President….

Jake Tapper: So the precedent you’re setting right now for the 2012 election is, the Republican candidates are the ones to pay attention to. Those who introduce them at rallies, their surrogates, we don’t have to pay attention to anything that they say.

Jay Carney: Jake, I think I’ve said what I can say…

Jake Tapper: Is that the standard now?

Jake Tapper: I’d rather not have to do this Washington kabuki every time something happens, but if that’s the standard, if that’s the standard…

Jay Carney: The standard is we should focus on the actions we can take to grow the economy and create jobs, instead of focusing on kabuki theater.

I think Jake just got his answer.

I guess you calling the President of the United States, ‘Obummer’, in an earlier post is you being civil.

No contraception needed.

http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2011/6/10/8a862d85-e040-4df6-8373-9f2c992346ce.jpg

Many bigots are social conservatives. Many social conservatives are bigots.  

Tell that to the GOP.  They are the ones that have made this an issue and are pushing it hard.      They chose to make Birth Control the next big talking point/attack on the DFL, so they brought this on themselves to a certain extent.  I mean you can hardly blame the supposed “Mainstream media” for focusing on this when it’s all GOP politicians and conservative commentators in the media have been talking about themselves the past week.

I actually agree with you though.  This is a silly and stupid issue that will only hurt the GOP in the end.  It’s basically just the next “Terry Schaivo”–i.e. a social issue that the GOP misguidedly decides to embrace which will result in an unforeseen backlash. The quicker they realize this and move on to stuff that people actually care about, the better they will be.

I remember my grandma saying it.

And that’s how RICK should have responded to CHARLIE. getting angry does him no good. It makes him look like the petulant child we in Pennsylvania know he is. 

Now Santorum knows how Obama felt when he had to answer for the comments made by his pastor.

You ask a very difficult question. Clayton Williams ran against Ann Richards in 1990.

The Pill became available in 1961 (29 years earlier).

The epic “Sex and the Single Girl” was released in 1962 (28 years earlier).

Griswold v. Connecticut was decided in 1965 (25 years earlier).

I hope you don’t have any other hard questions.

Your certainty on who will win the election is admirable.  Might I suggest you head over to Intrade.com, and put you entire life savings on shares that reflect Obama winning next year..
 
You’ll make a bundle when this inevitability happens, and your comments stating as much will seem less like drivel, since you would have put your money where your mouth is….

I’m guessing you are against abortion. Well, speak up, that’s your right. But in the law, a fetus does not become a person until it is born. If we say it is a person before that time, let’s say, at conception, then every miscarriage would require a full blown police investigation, forensics, autopsy, etc. Can you imagine? With every miscarrage, the mother would be the leading suspect. Did she puff on a cigarette to cause that death, did she go bowling, did she take any drinks, go rock climbing, … If so, that could be negligent homicide. And doctors like Ron Paul, who must have dealt with numerous “still” births, and other miscarriages, would all have to be investigated over each death to make sure that no “negligent homicide” was involved. That would all be a nightmare for woman and doctor alike. 

Your an idiot. Nobody holds obama accountable. Thats the point. They only attack and hold conservatives accountable.

You sound smart…..you must be a liberal.  

You know catholics hate you right?

Here’s your drool cup….dump it i the sink when you fill it….

Do you have large crowds chasing you all about, Tina in Tampa, or is it only the media singling you out?

So now you think he was deaf.  Good to know.  

It is old “news” that the media covered up.  So, in essence they deemed it not worthy of any kind of coverage.  Same with Bill, same with his awesome house and lot and even when Tony went to jail – no word of what a good friend he had been to the Pres.  Don’t you wish you had good friends who bought lots and sold them to you at a discount?

Only in our democratic America…

Because he sounds like he is pining for a simpler time. Like he wishes we could all go back there to the good old barefoot-and-pregnant days. One of the biggest problems I, as a liberal, have with most of these republicans is that they consistently decry progress. They don’t want marriage to mean anything other than what it’s always meant to them. They don’t want to give up their stupid barbershop, their stupid insider trading exemption, and their ability to gerrymander. 

Not sure if I agree.   It is in response to the fact that many
closeted homosexuals are afraid of their sexuality being made public so they mock to make sure everyone knows they hate homos, or they are insecure with their sexuality and do the same.  So in the event this person is going through that problem, I think we should encourage them to free themselves and be honest with who they are. 

Or, they can just be ignorant douche bag bigots.

My dear! Such myopia. As I’ve pointed out to you a couple of times, this silly man was at his sexually active prime in the midst of the sexual revolution in America. In the 60′s and 70′s sex was all over the place. By comparison, we Americans are prudes now. Might I suggest a new line of attack? Frankly, this one is as feeble as Rumsfeld’s initial Occupation strategy in Iraq.

Notice what exGOPman and PorkChop did…?

 You made a perfectly reasonable comment that you can support with examples and GOPman decides to “translate ” it into something you never said and then criticize you for his new interpretation.

 Then PorkChop just throws in some totally unrelated comment about birtherism as if those were your words and then tries to ridicule you for something he made up.

Two classic examples of straw man.

wah , wah, wah! I don’t want to talk about my beliefs, because I know most people don’t agree with me…

This just shows how whiny Americans have become. OOH. I am offended. WAAAAAH. My mom told my sister this several years ago, and the message was clear . She also got her the pill.

sounds like you have a secret little place in your mind, where you hold those gay parade memories dear …

I’m not saying they didn’t cover the issues. That’s exactly what they did — provide cover for their beloved candidate. See, it’s not just whether or not you cover something, it’s the WAY you cover it. Of course, if you were an Obama supporter, you wouldn’t even notice it. You’d say it was fairly covered. BS.

BTW, I’m not a surgeon. I’m in the scientific/engineering field. (Pic taken in a clean room while working on a satellite).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanroom

“it’s to understand how you differ from what this person said.”…

way to ask the tough questions, chuck…  we really need to know santorum’s position on an antiquated joke…  this is news we can use…  never mind that congress is robbing us all blind, the administration is assaulting the second amendment, hollywood is lobbying hard for internet regulation or that we’re pissing away billions on green mafia scams…  i need to know that my president will take the time to refute every inappropriate statement said by any associate, sanctioned or not…

no, your the one talking about gay parades, and gay men doing it doggy style!  so please keep your fantasies to yourself, if you don’t want people discussing it with you.  

I’m very socially conservative, but also tolerant, and a Democrat/Independent.

I really hope this doesn’t hurt Santorum too much, as much as I disagree with Santorum on every single issue, he’s forcing Romney to take on social conservative positions that will make him unelectable in the generals. Instead of worrying about birth control, I think the media should focus on Romney writing an article saying that Detroit should go bankrupt. Everyone voting in the Michigan primaries should remember that. Romney wanted the heart & soul of Michigan to go bankrupt.

I’m guessing you were in the pew along with Woodsman1st listening to what Obama heard. You all could start your own church, oh wait you already have.

I don’t care if Santorum feels responsible or not.  Dems should tar him with it big time. Dovetails nicely into a public perception that Santorum has creepy ideas about women.  

Love it !

Santorum is a Creep !  Wheeeeeeeeeeeee !!!!   

plus::
How come he didn’t get indignant with Greta !  Talk about double standard !

Little Ricky is pulling a “Newt”.    Ain’t life in the GOP grand?     

Now you are trying to cloud the water with partial birth. You are against all abortion, am I correct? Most people in our country, and for good reason, believe that the woman who must carry the fetus has the right to choose not to carry it. That is her liberty to make that decision. No church or government is going to tread on that liberty to make that choice, because it is essentially a woman’s health decision to be made by the woman in consultation with her doctor. Its a woman’s fundamental right to make such health decisions. Its fine for you to try to influence that decision by moral or religious persuasion, but no way our nation is going to retreat on a woman’s right to choose. “Freedom” to make a choice, requires having an actual choice. Barring abortion, or making it unavailable, removes choice.

lol – rightttttt

Voters who are bright, know how Santorum voted.  end of story.

How he feels what’s right for him is between him and his conscience.  Unless you can show where he voted to foist his “radical theocratic view” on you and yours, you’ve got nothing.

Since he not only voted but sponsored bills to give contraception to women, you’re empty – thus the deflection on stupidity.  

It’s sounds like your pining for a narrative….

Let your imagination run wild….

Just one of Santorum’s problems; short fuse. It’s bad enough that he’s way out of the mainstream on social issues. Now, he’s becoming Sarah Palin with the Media. He started the damn conversation even before the Iowa caucuses saying he wanted to talk about contraception and birth control. Well, it’s time to man up and either say what you believe or say that it was a rediculous comment for Foster Friess to make. Just be honest with the people, don’t skirt around the issue. For Santorum conception begins with an erection. Trying winning indepedents with that kind of crap.

Little Ricky could have told Charlie that not only did he know how benign that comment really was – but Charlie would have been more than familiar with it.  

Or – Little Ricky could have just said “Oh for Christ’s sake Charlie – act your age, not your mentality”.  Either would have been fine.

Ask the OBAMA MOUTHPIECE if he, or any of his colleagues in the rest of the Media Matters Media questioned Jim Messina on his anti-Hispanic “Cimichanga” slur?

How about it, DNC Operative Rose? 

Rick is pointing out to a senile old fart how blatantly hypocritical he is. Wasted effort all the same. The last original thing to come out of Rose landed in his Pampers.

OMG, that was hilarious dude.  I got a good laugh…..

I’m from the boston area….you sound like you are too….

Rick got absolutely frothy with Charlie.  His claim that the media protected Obama from his pastor’s statements is absolutely laughable.  

Consider this: the media tends to treat candidates well who speak candidly, are thoughtful and articulate and don’t just push canned answers and prepared sound bites. That was Obama in 2008. That was McCain in 2000. Even Santorum is getting more good press than bad because he seems authentic and sounds like he believes what he says.

This notion that Obama was somehow “protected” by the media is just a conservative fairy tale.

same reason he didn’t get indigent with Charlie.  

Check Santorum’s voting record on women’s issues and then get back to me about “creepy”.
Your bully tactics are creepy – his record is pretty stellar on women.  Learn to separate the wheat from the chaff and then you might not have to keep clearing your throat.  

The amazing thing is they actually seem to believe this stuff is going to work. Gingrich clearly thought he was onto something. When is the last time an excitable person won the WH? They clearly need to take a chill pill.

The barefoot, unemployed, preganat crowd is one of the DNC’s staunchest voting blocks….and they aim to keep it that way..

But other than this truth shooting your logic to hell, your comment is spot on..

True he was frothing from the mouth…ewwwwwwwwww!!!!!

Here is something you need to understand. In order to be of some interest, behaviour has to be consistent over time. For this reasons, and correctly, no one is going to believe the Obama adminstration is racist. If you bash gays, blacks, immigrants and women repeatedly, then what you say is construed, correctly, as perhaps bigoted. Do you understand?

They only question that needs to be asked is where is Obama’s competence certificate.
 
 
 
Oh yeah…and I want an update sometime in the near future on the state of our rescinding oceans and healing planet as well.

It must be nice living in right wing fantasy land.

Obama sleeping with the Devil for 20 years in the form of the Racist Bigot, Rev Wright didn’t stop clowns like you voting for him, how is Santorum reflecting the principles of his religion going to hurt him?
 
Also, good job on your “oppressing womens right” narrative….its as funny as it is BS…

Santorum ultimately wants government to peep in your bedroom.

Good luck trying to sell us that Santorum is for women’s rights. You’re obviously a woman with very low self esteem if you believe that. Not that it’s any of my business but only a vindictive fat chick who got made fun of by all the pretty girls & had to go to her high school reunion all alone & see that all the girls that tormented her are now happily married with kids would think Santorum is pro women.

Liberal Ed Shultz, or Liberal Kieth Olberman have never apoligized for their routine and predictable, frothing misogeny against women……ever.

Is that a good enought try?

We know, you conservatives are sick of the media. Here’s an idea, why don’t the Republican candidates boycott the media completely? See how that works out for you.

I think you got liberal stupid all over yourself.  Proof of that being your selection of Avatar.

I guess Ms Cynthia doesn’t have a prayer then, using your logic, Rick just turned her into a Democrat on top of all her other ills. EEW. Oh well at least she has her health care taken care of.

Come on man, you know even that question is above their IQ. Don’t forget about the gotcha question concerning Libya with Hermain Cain… Priceless!!

“As I’ve pointed out to you a couple of times ”

- yes, and each time it was just as irrelevant and annoying, and completely missing the point.

sex was not all over the place in the 60′s and 70′s. It didn’t hit my mother and father, and many of my friends parents, and relatives. Just because you (or your parents) were screwing anything that moved, doesn’t mean everyone else was.

Great insight there valkyrie.  Your comments defiantly hold a ring of truth since we all know before abortion was legal in the 70′s law enforcement was overwhelmed with murder investigations stemming from miscarriages…….and more often than not…the result of these countless homicide investigations lead to the mother being found guilty in a court of law……
 
Using history as our guide….you’ve convinced me of the validity of your view.

 - Or if the Media Matters-Democratic Party cabal, along with THEIR outlets in the mainstreams keep spreading that SMEAR!

awww ricky, dont sweat it….YOU HAVE A ZERO% CHANCE OF BEING PRESIDENT….getting mad aint gonna help ya….your sexist,xenaphobic,anti gay, anti birthcontrol, attitude doomed you long ago……hang in there tho….im enjoying your contribution to the rightwing circus…oh 2 words that WILL NEVER appear in US History books…….PRESIDENT SANTORUM

Right wrong or indifferent, I agree with you that a women has no control over her body prior to conception, and the first choice afforded to her regarding what happens to her body is after conception.
 
I’ll even take it a step further.  I also think that motherhood after a child is born can be taxing on the body and a health risk to a women as well.  With this in mind, I think a women has the right to shoot her own two year old in the head, if she finds that the rigors of motherhood are overly taxing to her and her body.
 
Anyone who disagrees with me on this point is a sexist bigot who hates women, and thinks they should remain in the kitchen…
 
After all..Its her right…ya know?

Seal Team 6 on Conservative Media.  ;-)

It was MONTHS that FOX was reporting on Wright – MONTHS – before the Meadi Matters news outlets even mentioned the Black Separitist’s name!
More lies from the Democrats.

 Santorum: “Boo-hoo, you don’t treat the President this way, wahhhhhhhh!” Grow up, you big, sick, twisted baby. If you can’t play with the big boys then go home.

 rev wright ????….is that what you hobbits are gonna truck out there this year again???….that failed last time….good luck with it …..now shall we review the words of the rightwing scaremongering racist pig preachers wingnuts trot out there…..you know….your koran burners and people like franklin graham…….sure you wanna go there?????

So, in other words, you have no substantive rebuttal, got your hackles up because of that and, in typical fashion, resulted to vulgar and foul language. You are dismissed.

Yeah Rescinding oceans and healing planet.. All Obama’s Fault Yeah!

 hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…..GOOD LUCK ORLEY

Being a man I am against abortion,but I am for a womans right to choose.I say that because being a man I don’t know what womans going through.

The real problem that I have is how society is so cavalier about the issue. I mean todays woman look more to abortion as a way of birth control.That to me is discusting. I can unsderstand abortion in cases of rape or a 15 year old.
But nowadays woman are having abortions because of the sex of their child.

Obama voted for partial birth abortions.He supports letting babies that have survived abortions just let them die on their own..Thats sick.Would you do that to a dog?
On top of now controlling what how churches control their finances.This man is a danger to a civil society.

Santorum beLIEve’s He’ll go on Fox from now on where they sugar coat ?’s for the Republican’s

Charlie Rose was only asking Santorum what he said to Friess about the “joke”….we want to know Santorum’s response to the comment….Santorum doesn’t have any trouble accepting LARGE amounts of money from the man, so he should be able to answer some questions about the incident.  We don’t expect Santorum to have to defend each of his supporters, but a rich, outspoken one does attract attention…..Santorum’s reaction to this with his haughty anger has just made me dislike him more!

listen Eli…..keep your sexual habits to yourself….you getting slonged up the behind is TMI

Santorum blew it by referencing Jeremiah Wright. He was doing okay but went non sequitor.

If Obama wins a second term, and the Red States begin to secede, where are you Democrats going to get the funds to run your Welfare State?

Conservatives believe in a strong military and border security, so don’t count on your freeloading caucuses sneaking over into the working-man’s (and woman’s) territory anytime.

See Greece? – That’ll be the Blue States!

 Yours is a valid attempt to confront contempt with reason. I’m just about convinced that these people do not want to be reasonable. They do not want to carefully consider the facts and come up with a thoughtful opinion; that would take too much energy. It’s much easier to spit out angry and thoughtless remarks that have no basis in facts or reality. They gleefully display their ignorance and even think they are clever. It make me sad for our country.

it sure was…..gotta admire his taste in apparrel though

Central part of the state bro.

Rev Wright and Birf Cutifucuts is why you goobers lost the election. Stick to the economy.

 mrs NE….is that you?????

No..to my point it was plastered all over the TV and media as something just super duper and we should all be glad and deliriousley happy that people of the same sex are posing and imitating in sexual positions on floats going down main street in front of children. And the media comparing it to the 4th of July.

Everyone should just take a step back.  It was a joke. A bad one, but a joke nonetheless.

substantive rebuttal to what? When have you ever posted anything substantive, and relevant, in reply to me? You are incapable of replying to me sans insult. 

I replied to your comment – apparently you believe everyone screwed like rabbits during the sexual revolution. Not everyone did. You are the one who claimed Friess and everyone else were getting their groove on, so don’t act all offended now. There are plenty of people who kept the proverbial aspirin between their knees. Apparently not a lot of people you knew.

“this silly man was at his sexually active prime in the midst of the sexual revolution in America.  In the 60′s and 70′s sex was all over the place.”

Maybe his voting record reflects that. What I said is – the public perception of his views on women is that he’s creepy.  Done.  Pretend that doesn’t matter.

If that’s what it takes to get Republicans out of the US govt , so be it.

The bully tactics you’re talking about were written by the right. You just don’t like it when they’re used by the left.

 “If Obama wins a second term, and the Red States begin to secede, where
are you Democrats going to get the funds to run your Welfare State?”

Get the funds? You do realize that the red states (especially in the south) are the biggest vacuums of taxpayer money from blue states.

The Welfare State budget will be balanced when the red states leave the union, thank you very much.

You’re kidding , right ? The Blue States subsidize the Red States in America.  Most welfare goes to Red States.

Oh. and…

Obama got Osama !!

What took me a long time to realise is that conservatives in America are actually seriously angry people. I have my guesses as to why, but can’t prove it. However, what they say is always the same and not amenable to reason or evidence. The correct appraoch, in my opinion, is to point out that their dislike of something is not a particularly convincing argument. 

Well that may be so but he does then speak outside of both sides of his mouth.  He may have voted for Title X because it was in his best interest politically at the time.  But if you were to go to his website…

http://www.ricksantorum.com/executive-branch-actions

,,, he pretty much lays out his radical agenda if he were elected president.  Which includes repealing Title X and removing the mandate of health insurances requiring to offer contraceptive services in the preventative health care part of Obama’s health care plan.  I suggest all voters take a look at his site so that they can make a better judgment for themselves about Rick Santorum.  Then they won’t have to watch all the b.s. commercials or listen to Santorum speak out of both sides of his mouth. 

Bottom line, Santorum has publicly come out and said he is against use of contraception and he even goes as far as saying that States have the right to deny personal rights on this issue. 

I believe once again, you’ll need to pull that foot out of your mouth.

Santorum isn’t turning anyone into a democrat.  If you want to sit home, and have the government take care of your every need….your already a democrat.

You’d be the last person I’d think would pick up what I was referring to… Thanks for validating that thought. 

What smear? No one will believe Obama is anti-Hispanic. Why would that even surprise you?

 You wingnut clowns have been seceding for 3 years already.

President Obama is going to be re-elected in 2012.

Just GTFO of  the USA and go bi tch in Iraq, Jonestown or wherever else you clownseratives will soil the ground. Just go.

 You left out the birth certificate fiasco.

On the bright side Rick it keeps people distracted from talking about ‘googling’ Santorum.

AND there ya go damnit!!
 That’ll fix ‘um!!!~

 Just another nail in the head of this little Santorum  splotch. He is done people.What flavor of the week will it be next for the Republican/Tea Party.

Misogynists like Santorum would have a government inspector looking in every woman’s medicine cabinet.

I’m not for him, but on this Santorum is right.  Anyone who says the mainstream media didn’t/doesn’t treat Obama different is either lying or stupid.  The problem with most posters on Mediate (and everywhere else for that matter) is that they have this “my side is always
right and your side is always wrong” mentality.  Right is right and wrong is wrong, no matter which side you are on.  For the record, I’ an Independent who doesn’t like Democrats or Republicans. Those labels do nothing but divide.

Obama has wet dreams thinking about running against Santorum.  Winning an election means capturing the middle 15-20% of the voters and Santorum will not be able to do that.

Think about it-he supports states being able to ban the sale of condoms and birth control pills.  Obama will have a heyday painting the guy as a right wing wacko. 

No problem feeling that way but Santorum should run hard and fast from giving the impression that he would make this part of what he would do if elected.

Can they be lying and stupid?

Everyone wants to KNOW exactly what Rick thinks about contraception. After all, too hell with the economy, sigh.

 No, that was just a test with South Carolina and Maine (?) a couple of years back.
Don’t kid yourself, it’s coming!

LOL, then you in the Blue States should have no problem!

See how far whatever selectively-applied statistics your using get you when it’s time to pay the bill!

“So you have ONE article stating media is not in love with Obama.”

Maybe you should try reading the article.  It references what’s called a “study,” which does research and tabulates things called ”statistics” to come up with what’s called a “conclusion.” But naturally, you’ll never come to grips with reality because it doesn’t sync with your persecution complex. 

*moved*

The GOP have ‘reaped the whirlwind’ with their carnival of clowns and inept buffoons. 

Andrea Mitchell and crooked mouth are old enough to have coined the aspirin phrase. It was an everyday common comment when talking birth control in the 40/50/60/ & 70′s…

Asking a presidential candidate seriously whether he should disavow a someone else’s stab at humor the left choose to pretend not to understand isn’t a “reasonable question.”  It’s indoctrinated assholery.

I am almost speechless… it is astounding just how delusional you are!

Yeah but it was a sexist guys joke which was funny between guys but you only told it to women who could handle it not Andrea Mitchell or Greta.

State by state.
http://visualeconomics.creditloan.com/united-states-federal-tax-dollars/
Transfer payments as % income by County
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/02/12/us/entitlement-map.html?ref=us

No…we would have to refer to him as a “Demon” in order to be civil…..

Funny thing is it’s 2012. A very stupid thing for the campaign manager of a Presidential hopeful to say this.Shows the mindset of Rick Santorum and company.

Republicans aren’t principally concerned with solving problems; their goals are ideological.

The right believes programs like abstinence only education work, even when they don’t work, so long as ideological goals are being met. Real-world implications are meaningless.

Would you expect anything less from two abbot and costello style fools such as ExGOP and Porkchop?

Rose is a liberal hack. On his interview show 90% of the guests were liberal. He’d give them softball questions, even if they had controversial views, yet when anyone even mildly conservative was on he’d grill them with lame questions. Pathetic.

 In the 40/50/60 and 70′s maybe.

A second Civil War would not be between red and blue states. 
http://www.jeremygreathouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/countycartnonlin1024.png

A second Civil War would be those tiny thin strips of red growing agitated enough to poke those big blocks of blue.  Not to mention that the big blocks of blue contain the financial centers, top universities, manufacturing capacity and highest rates of productivity and innovation.  Insert that into your fantasy.  Perhaps you will dream less.  

 It’s his CAMPAIGN Manager not just someone who gives him money.

Yes they dream of going back to a 1950s America when anglos were dominant and ‘others’ and women knew their place.

 But it’s okay when Fox does it.

This article should be retitled, “Rick Santorum at battle with self over conclusions of his own beliefs”  What did you think would happen when you rail against Women’s Rights?

We were not talking about two year old babies, but unborn fetuses.  You conclude that a fetus is a person, but for all of human history, that has not been the way people looked at it. As it is now, we do protect the “rights” of fetuses in that abortion is not normally permitted after the second tri-mester.

It’s only natural to get your feathers ruffled and then lash out at someone after relentess harrassment by the media. But, I have noticed that you have a tendency to simply write one sentence posts that are clear, concise and to the point. Mr. Santorum should heed your style and keep his answers the same — clear, concise and to the point. Sometimes saying less means more.

 The worst thing we ever did was to prevent the South from seceding when we had the chance. They’ve been dragging this country down ever since.

 Hey, if you’re putting religion on the table, religion is on the table. “Ahm still in the Bible!!!”

That is exactly what my Mom and Dad told me to do in the 60s and 70s.  I thought it funny then and still do.  I don’t think Friess meant to be malicious but the comment was not appropriate in that venue.

That is exactly what my Mom and Dad told me to do in the 60s and 70s.  I thought it funny then and still do.  I don’t think Friess meant to be malicious but the comment was not appropriate in that venue.

 They always jump to the accusation “gotcha question” when they have nothing . It’s the same as admitting, “hell if I know.”

If you define a fetus as a person, within the law, as anti-abortion advocates urge that we do, which we have never done, in the seventies or otherwise, then you open the can of worms I was discussing.

Birth control is not a right it is a choice.

Where do you find the right to free contraceptives? And where are my free guns?

 ”It was said by some old dude”  It was his CAMPAIGN manager.

 ”It was said by some old dude”  It was his CAMPAIGN manager.

Birth control is not a right, it is a choice.

Ed had to apologize for calling Laura Ingraham a sl*t, but only after MSLSD dropped the hammer on him.

Not sure I agree… what with the entire slavery thing.  The end of slavery might have been a strategic side note (from the Union leaderships point of view) but emancipation and 13-15 were priceless outcomes of the unfortunate fissure.  

 He’s been married since 1962, Kook.

Acid was all over the place too, which might explain a lot about the tedentious Texan.

 I completely agree with you, but boy, do we have our work cut out for us. We also need to point out that their divisive comments are damaging to this country as well as counter-productive. I also think it’s important to keep asking, “Where does your anger come from? Why is every response so hostile?”  I think for many the hostility is learned behavior, they don’t even realize how they sound.

 ”screwed like rabbits”        You must have gotten the message from the pig Rush Limbaugh.He thinks the only people who want birth control are screwing like rabbits. Such backwards people are in the Republican/Tea Party.

“This is not a political war at all. This is not a cultural war. This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country – the United States of America. If you were Satan, who would you attack in this day and age. There is no one else to go after other than the United States and that has been the case now for almost two hundred years, once America’s preeminence was sown by our great Founding Fathers.

He didn’t have much success in the early days. Our foundation was very strong, in fact, is very strong. But over time, that great, acidic quality of time corrodes even the strongest foundations. And Satan has done so by attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition. He was successful,” 
Rick Santorum from a 2008 speech

Uh, no. It isn’t.

Wait, so it’s the right that invented bully tactics, while you’re fine and dandy with ignoring facts and promoting lies as long as it harms Republicans. Brilliant.

Chiroptera guano insane.

 On what do you base your conclusion that women look to abortion as a means of birth control? I have been a woman my whole life. I have sisters and many, many women friends. Not one of us have used abortion as a means of birth control. No one who has had an abortion is cavalier about it; that is MAN-speak. Only MEN say women are cavalier about abortion.

President Obama does not and has not attempted to control church finances. He is in no way a danger to civil society. This country has many problems, throwing around hyperbole helps nothing.

 Another intelligent comment.

Im liberal and wont be voting for Rick but people need to lighten up a little – this is not a real concern.  The Reality TV ‘News’/gossip shows need to sell Viagra and Mutual fund commercials so they make this a big deal.  

It ought be a question because there’s a policy issue at hand, but you think the press is entitled to run with it an entire week?  No, that’s called managing the debate, taking it out of the hands of those attempting to distinguish themselves from the other folks on the stage and establishing their own litmus test of what should be considered acceptable responses.  Obama with his stance is raising the issue at the time he is for political purpose – that is a tool the office grants him – but candidates oughtn’t be required to focus on his agenda alone.  And that’s just what would be represented should the press take the bit between their teeth and lead with only that.

Their pet issues aren’t the great issues of the day, especially with regards to the Republican primary.  Where’s the debate over the debt, the schism over foreign policy, the influence of tactic of terror vs civil liberties of the home front, the drug war?  The Republican voters by all rights should have the larger say as to what issues candidates ought to expound upon.  This press though, having no relationship with or understanding of the right, won’t reflect that and is seeking to have candidates satisfy only themselves.  Such explains how progressive ideology is so entrenched within both parties.

 Do you really see the world that way, black and white, us and them, good and evil, all good or all bad? I’m afraid it’s not that simple. It’s thinking like this that hurts us as a nation and holds us back.

Well, Newton Leroy has been married three (3) times, and it appears that didn’t stop that slime from extracurricular sex.

 Guns=contraceptives, same thing.

 The birth certificate has been verified. People refute it because there is no legitimate reason to question his right to be POTUS. You really have to ask yourself: would the GOP have allowed him to be inaugurated if there were any proof otherwise? Seriously, does this make any sense? You discredit everything you have to say when you start out with the birth certificate nonsense. It demonstrates your inability to make a coherent argument against this president.

i’m still trying to envision just exactly how one goes about rescinding an ocean…  and under whose authority, the interior dept perhaps?…  that paperwork must be a nightmare…

Competence? You mean like George W Bush was competent? No matter what you think of our president’s policies, you cannot deny that someone with a law degree from Harvard is extremely intelligent, educated and competent. That point is not up for debate.

Charlie Rose only refers Santorum to the first two dimensions of the joke, because Rose doesn’t use the term Freiss used (“Bayer aspirin”) – he specifically only uses the word “aspirin”.The joke is a very old one, certainly over 50 years old (That dates it back to when I first heard it, but of course I’m only one of billions & I certainly don’t imagine at all that the person who I first heard it from devised it.).  The joke, as designed, has TWO dimensions:  1. as a VISUAL joke, aimed at mixing:A. a social comment on modern dependence on medication versus old ‘tried & true’ ways, with: B. a cliched or iconic male view of the weak minds & wills of women, plus  2. as a VERBAL pun, aimed at mixing each of:  A. an archaic term that refers to a venomous snake (“asp”),  B. a more modern-day ‘hipster’ term that refers to the male sex organ (asp = cobra or snake = penis),  C. a common term referring to removing one’s clothing (bare ass), &  D. with an oblique reference to a form of birth control in use for eons before medicines (anal sexual intercourse, which holding an aspirin between one’s legs would not deter but in fact encourage).To make clear that he was bringing in ALL aspects of this visual-verbal joke, Freiss REPEATED to Lawrence O’Donnell the exact same term he used when he said it earlier to Andrea Mitchell: not “apirin”, but “Bayer aspirin”.

Then so should be vasectomies and boner pills. Both which are covered.

We already know what he thinks: he wants it BANNED

Good catch! I missed that. Here’s the one I’d had in mind: 

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-s9LHUSOIW8Q/TbGbhDne8SI/AAAAAAAACdU/sK2pCnVs3ag/s1600/mary+1.jpg 

So,
Fox DIDN’T rake the president over the coals re: Rev Wright?

SUUUUURRREEEEEEE

No, the right to arms is mentioned in the Constitution.

Brown muck wants to play a victim in this exchange and dodge the questions about his positions on number of issues that show how ferociously anti-women, anti-gay, anti-minorities  he actually is.

Planned Parenthood doesn’t do abortions for medical necessity and they do a lot of them. Why do you suppose that is? 

No one who has had an abortion is cavalier about it; that is MAN-speak.

So, all of them have done it because their own health was in danger?

Republican Candidate always cries foul on Gotcha Question when they go on FoxNews and they are ask the same question that Liberals ask and they don’t call out FoxNews anchor on a gotcha question … Republican are full of shirt … Case in Point … FoxNews Anchor Greta Van Susteren as Rick Santorum about Aspirin controversy ….. Now CBS Charlie Rose ask Rick Sontorum the same question this morning and Rick brings out the Gotcha card and that what the liberal press do ….. Why Rick Santorum say the same thing to Greta Van Susteren went she ask him about the Aspirin Controversy ……. When FoxNews ask you the Aspirin Question is okay but when you go to another network its a Gotcha question … You full of shirt …. check the link …Greta Van Susteren of FoxNews ask Rick Santorum the same question …. Never once did Rick say Greta Van Susteren there you go against bringing up the Gotcha Question because Greta works for FoxNews and Charlie Rose work for CBS ……. Greta Van Susteren Holds Santorum’s Feet To The Fire Over Supporter’s Aspirin As Contraception Remark …http://www.mediaite.com/tv/greta-van-susteren-holds-santorums-feet-to-the-fire-over-supporters-%E2%80%98aspirin-as-contraception%E2%80%99-remark/

dr ron paul has said that when he treated expectant mothers he and other obstetricians were of the opinion they were treating two patients, not one human and one fetus…

Absolutely nothing is making it off limits for humor.  However, when your supporter’s attempt to humor it is in the same vein of saying “women don’t need watches, there’s usually a clock in the kitchen”, then you reap what you sow.

“Romney definitely gets a free pass on Fox, while most other candidates in the GOP primary get a harder time.”
Maybe an easier time (than Gingrich & Paul, certainly), but not a “free pass”: you’re over-looking the Bret Baier interview in the warehouse setting. The only one Ailes doesn’t seem to be able to form a consistent narrative on is Santorum.

 No time to review that right now Greg, but it’s incongruous that states with the least debt and the fastest growing economies would be the biggest welfare recipients.

If so, and the state borders between givers and takers has been more diffused of late, then when the Red States do go their separate way,  simply re-orient.

And since Obama is beating Mittens 2:1 on the women’s vote, that means in a head-to-head battle between Obama & Santorum, about the only women who would be voting for Santorum would be his wife, his mother, the ladies on Fuppet News & the post-menopausal Bircher Tea Party set.

He’s not Gingrich, Kook.

*Certain people should just stop talking whenever the phrase “in my day” exits their lips.

Maybe certain people should just close their mouths, open their mind and listen when someone says “in my day” so that they can have a proper relationship with generations past while trying to understand from where such comments issue.

That’s what empathy is, that which the left tries to portray itself as being.  Real empathy, not BS moral relativism or sympathy with the struggles of enemies to overcome that which we should value as leftists often define it in practice.

So the 71 year old guy spoke of his day when most modern day forms of contraception weren’t available (or readily so) and morals were such that abstinence was not only the recommended method of birth control, but the expected one.  Lessons are to be learned there, to how much the world has changed.  His joke was basically to say that he didn’t have much personal relationship to today’s debate.  Well, that makes sense.  He’s probably done with the problem in his own life of having to think on how to prevent procreation.

Besides the above point, this whole meta-story is a non-issue – or rather, a proxy one – being perpetuated only so that progs can beat on the Catholic in the race.

… which allows me to haul out once again my old argument that the Dems should never have allowed the GOP to commandeer the elephant symbol, when this one is way more appropriate: 

http://www.inkart.net/illustration/wildlife/hippopotamus/hippopotamus_large.gif 

Nasty, brutish, ill-tempered, short-sighted, big-mouthed, noisy, aggressive, over-bearing, wallowing in the muck, colored pink on gray … plus the pun! What’s not to like?

If you pull the comment COMPLETELY out of context, then yes, it is a harmless joke by an old stupid misogynist, but in context, it is a rich Christian Fundamentalist rambling about how contraception is already cheap, shouldn’t be insured, and women should stop having sex.

 He said this on the day an all MALE panel was discussing woman’s rights.Yea,It’s a non story to those who live in the Republican/Tea Party bubble.

“Biggot” has got to be one of the words that isn’t but ought to be. 

Good for him… I will not vote for him but it is nice to see someone call liberal biased partisan pieces of crap that pretend to be journalists on NBC, MSNBC, CBS and ABC get called on their BS.  For the love of god,  half the Clinton team is on TV now as “Journalists”  And with Brian Williams updating us nightly on what the Obama’s are doing like he is Jay Z or something ( his incessant updates are disgusting) and Chris Matthews getting tingly legs with G Stephenapolous and this clown doing their thing…. Where can you go now with out some kind of bias in the media?  They should remove the word NEWS and replace it with OPINION period on all the MSM

The GOP will establish a Department of Spiritual Gynecology in a Santorum administration.

It’s not INHERENTLY a “bad joke”, plus dismissing it as MERELY a “bad joke” is insufficient. It’s got structure & it’s layered, so it’s not without some degree of sophistication. It certainly would seem likely to go over very big with the right crowd, such as in a group at CPAC or a local meeting of the Loyal Order of Cantankerous Hippomati. The ‘badness’ in the joke is mostly contextual.

Your tinfoil is slipping.

That’s false history. Yes, there was a divergence in the way the moderate msm covered the story & how the winger msm covered it, but mainly that had to do with the reaction of each once the msm did what Winger Central was pressing for: to actually go & listen to the two sermons in their entirety. At that point, the moderate msm determined there really was no story here, it was almost entirely racial bigotry involved, because the sermons were both very good, very strong examples of American preaching. But Winger Central liked the supeficial clipped images so much, & liked the deeper look into them so little, it grabbed onto the moderate msm’s abandonment of the meme for being racial bigotry & ever since has falsely accused the moderate msm of NOT diving into the sermons & rather taking exactly the superficial view that Winger Central is in fact taking. 

Yeah, but it’ll get recycled; wingers never give up on a meme – they subscribe to the title of the old song by Peter Allen: “Everything old is new again”.

Dow Approaching 13,000  - Thank you Obama for restoring our economy after the reckless, feckless Republicans trashed it.  Good luck in 2nd term ! Let’s use it to destroy the right wing in America for good !

Welcome to MediaiteMatters where we scour the media looking for ways to damage Republicans and Conservatives!

Somehow even defending yourself from activist left-leaning “journalists” is a controversy.

Exactly. Where is the tea party outrage there?

Looks like the 1% is doing quite well.
How about the rest of the country?

 Leave it to the liberals to be offended by a joke that suggests they not be promiscuous.
That is an old joke, and a pretty funny one at that. I prefer it over the “just keep it in your pants.”

Thank you for posting these embarrassing facts for the Republican hypocrites. Of course there’s no time to read them now though, Rush Limbaugh comes on in 10 minutes !

Rick Santorum is an extremist religious kook. Please, please nominate Republicans..yes do..lol

Santuorum is such and idiot and a pussy.  If he and his kind of maggots in the GOP could have their way, they would take this nation back to the a combination of the days of the Great Depression mixed with the Salem Witch Craft Trials.  That kind of thinking is core to GOP ideology.

it took me no time at all to realize that liberals in america are actually seriously angry people…  no need to guess why, i can prove it…  what they say is always the same and not amenable to reason or evidence…  the correct approach is to point out that their dislike of something is not a particularly convincing argument…

Remember, Santorum, Gingrich, Bachmann, Palin, other tea party brown-nosers have made it clear that they want journalists and interviewers to only ask the questions that they WANT them to ask, i.e., the interviewers should behave as though they are members of the interviewee’s PR team.

So does Obama.

Executive Order…..

you want to know santorum’s response, rose wants to know his response…  seriously?…  even if you somehow believe santorum is down with the joke and thinks it’s funny, what in the bloody-effing-hell do you expect him to say?…  “well, charlie, i just want to go on record as categorically distancing myself from such an offensive and insensitive remark.  furthermore, i hereby rebuke and repudiate everything friess has ever said, about anything.”…  “thank you, mr santorum, for your candor.  this officially qualifies you, along with the fact you’ve attained the age of 35 years and are a natural born citizen, to serve as president.  of the united states.  of america.”…

a complete and utter waste of time…  

What is and what is not up for debate is not yours to decide.
 
 An ivy league pedigree talks nothing to a person’s ability to lead an organization, let alone a country.  If it did…than our country would be in a much better place than it is now when acknowledging how many Ivy League alumni hold political power in our country….So lets put that little talking point to rest mkay?
 
Also, in order to make yourself look less like a fool, while making me eat my words, can you please show me in any of my comment history where I said Bush was competent….
 
After you fail at that task, then we can start coming up with a plan on how we are going to dislodge your head from your lower intestine.

 No, he was right to reference Wright. Maybe in the future he won’t be told he should somehow have to answer for what his supporters say. Obama was never held to any kind of standard when it came to people he surrounded himself with. Besides, Foster Friess is a good man, unlike the people our president associates with.

You have it exactly, actually. Conservatives hate change. I think it all goes back to the fabled Garden of Eden in Genesis, when they believe Eve(all women) got Adam (all men) kicked out of the best man-cave ever. They know they cant go back that far, but theyll take what they can get.

I’m sorry, I most have missed yours….can you show them to me?

I should think him specifically saying his concerns were other than what was asked was indicative that he didn’t have anything relevant to add.

With that in mind, I highly doubt he had anything to do with the ALL MALE make up of the panel.  You want to take a break from beating up on a Santorum proxy with your proxy issue and beat up on someone for that?  Then choose to criticize someone remotely involved.  Further, stop expecting the people to continue jumping through your irrelevant politically abusive (not correct, but abusive) hoops.

Ok, can i ask you a serious question then – im really not making fun or mocking or anything, i just dont understand – you say you are a social conservative, but a tolerant democrat/independent….what does that mean exactly?

 Prove it.

Agent of flagged posts.

 Nobody has to lift a finger to damage Republicans or Conservatives, you’re doing a fine job on your own. Choosing to make contraception political…yeah, that was brilliant.

He might as well have, considering the other things he has said.

 Brian Williams

Al Sharpton has never apologized for his role in the deaths of 10 people.

 Maybe there are constant updates on the president because he is the president and some people like to be informed. Why do you assume reporting on what the president does is inherently biased?

Paul must have dealt with many still births and early term miscarriages. If his “patient” died, shouldn’t there have been an autopsie, police interviews and forensics, and a determination on the record as to the cause of death? Because that is what we do when a child dies.

 Not when it is prescribed for a medical condition, which it is for many women.

 So you can’t come up with your own original thought? Sad.

‘Obummer’ is as uncivil as ‘Bush light.’  Not very much at all.

 All the thousands of Obama associates are bad men and women?

 Sure, they’re all over this post. Thanks for your interest.

sell your partisan psychobabble to the tourists…  jeez, pelosi couldn’t have condescended that any better…

 Why are you so hostile? Do you really believe the president is a demon? I strongly dislike George W Bush, but I can articulate why, using facts, without stooping to childish name calling. How does this help our country? Or are you interested only in creating division, rather than truly moving our country forward?

 One resorts to insults when intelligence fails.

Its cool for either man or woman to make the argument that people should or should not get abortions, but the decision to abort or not (within the statutory provisions) is the woman’s. Because we are a free nation.

 I can google too.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/07/20/daily-caller-discovers-journolist-plot-to-spike-wright-story-smear-conservatives-as-racists/
In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”

To Pablo,
You may not be aware of this medical fact, but woman sometimes die during delivery. So obviously the decision to risk that belongs with the person who is taking the risk.

 I watch MSNBC, and you are right, they covered it a lot. They constantly were demonizing Fox for covering the Wright story. They covered it, but not negatively toward Obama.

Maybe you should pick a words fight with someone more on your level like say, I_heart_liberals. Read the post woodsman made,then read my reply post a second time more slowly. Get it?

I don’t conclude anything regarding what a fetus is….I know what it is.  It’s a human.
 
I was agnostic on abortion, I couldn’t have cared less,..I was with you….ya know..”it’s a right…keep your hands off my body, and all that”…. right up until I had a son.  I watched him as early as 10 weeks on ultrasound, he would move to make himself comfortable, react to outside stimulus, sleep, stretch, and I would listen to his little heart beat…. he was just as human then as he is now.
 
 Only At that point…I realized what horror we as a society have been perpetrating for 40 years….and it made me sick. 
 
In all our selfishness, in all our immature lack of responsibility, we have somehow justified killing our own children as a matter of “right”…. We pretend we have no say whatsoever in conceiving a child…and fool ourselves into thinking that it isn’t our own damn fault and not the fault of a child when one is conceived.  Then, to make matters worse…it the most horrifying of methods conceivable…we kill the ones we don’t want……
 
I’m ashamed for all of us Valk…

What our “laws” say is right and what is wrong has no correlation to what is actually right or wrong

That can of worms is no bigger than a can of worms opened when someone dies of natural causes.

Quick medical exam, doctor conclusion….end of story.

Our side gets pissed off about it, because they have never asked Obama a gotcha question.

For example i would ask obama about Bill Ayres or his former America hating preacher. But i guess a joke about aspirin is far more important then actual ties to terrorism.

EX GOP … sure you are and I used to be Napolean.. ur an Obama coolaid drinking twit.. Obama was never held to any standard.. please provide any link showing where any Charlie Rose type asked 1 simple quiestion.. “Mr Obama pleawe tell tyhe Amereican voters why you have spent a fortune hidin all of your records, transcrips from any university or college, health records, how and who paid for your Harvardeduication?? if you in fact have one.. No transcripts would indicate you’re hiding.. What exactly is it you are hioding???

Example of the post election complaints being lead by the conservative crybabies Limbaugh and Hannity!

Lots of fun hypocrisy to see here, though.

Should we listen when a 66 year old black pastor says, “God Damn America!” so we “can have a proper relationship with generations past while trying to understand from where such comments issue”?

This, just like Rev. Wright, is a distraction. It’s just a shoe on a different foot. And Rick, ABC broke the news about Obama’s pastor.

 I guess you just ignore the day the president went before the Republican caucus and allowed them to ask him anything. No teleprompter, no pre-screened questions, nothing. And he enjoyed it.

Agreed. This is a waste of time. It’s a great sensationalist story, with easily definable sides to take, to distract the masses while we’re being fleeced.

I guess you missed Fox’s Greta asking him about this last night.

Not quite understanding your comparison; we have nightly updates of Jay-Z by Williams?

WHAT EXACTLY DID YOU MEAN BY THAT

“Some 84 percent of federal individual income taxes—which account for over 40 percent of federal revenue—are paid by the those in the top 25 percent of the income distribution. The majority of these taxpayers live in wealthy, urban, politically “blue” areas like New York, California, and Massachusetts.
Even if federal spending were equal in all states, wealthy states would still send substantially more federal tax dollars to Washington than they received in spending, simply because they earn a majority of the nation’s income. This disparity is greatly magnified by the progressive rate structure of the federal income tax, which taxes higher income states more heavily than low-income states, regardless of the level of spending received.”
http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/1397.html

 What does this have to do with Brian Williams?

What part of the Constitution or Bill of Rights does that right of birth control for medical condition come in?  I missed that section.

AT – take your Obama pill.

Sorry….that falls outside the memory banks for anyone who needs to use the “left-wing media bails out dumb Democrats” argument. Also unavailable for recall:

1) George W. Bush Administration prior to 2006

2) Kent Starr’s Magical Mystery Tour

 No the joke was so blatantly ignorant when discussing this ‘not at all funny problem’ that is shows the guy lacks any insight into what a serious problem the issue is.  And to make a joke where the entire responsibility for “not getting pregnant” is the woman’s responsibility is so blatantly sexist and ignorant.  He said it and it was on national TV for all to hear, even the young people who are grappling with these issues.  His ignorant answer failed young people miserably and if he thought that line was a joke, that is so disgusting and if he did not think it was a joke, that is terribly disgusting!

Did anybody see the part where Sen. ManOnDog accused Greta and “those guys” at Fox News of asking GOTCHA! questions? I missed it in the clip here……

Yeah but I can not put a 13,000 Dow in my gas tank. You think the gas stations are going to care about a 13 or 14k Dow?  They just want cash, they don’t care about my 401K going up. Just wait until summer rolls around and +$4.00 gas come into play.

Doesn’t the Constitution give women the right to choice? Choice being the key word in your statement

Friess IS NOT A CAMPAIGN MANAGER FOR SANTORUM. You need to get your facts straight.  He is a supporter and donator but is not in any position in the Santorum campaign.  You just assumed what your heard from the media that he was part of the campaign personnel.  The media misspoke.

Im conservative and I would vote for Rick, but I completely agree with you that people need to lighten up and that this is not a crisis moment for our country. We have bigger problems to face.

Great, then If you are a conservative, bigoted, global warming denying, closet white supremacist, Christian Taliban, anti-government, anti-science, anti-education kind of person, there is still one channel for you to watch….that being Fox news.

“What does this have to do with Brian Williams?”

It’s the tin-foil hats crowd way of saying that there’s some sort of a conspiracy.

Let’s be honest here…even I got the joke….I hardly take it as anything but a weak joke…worst part is that Friese seriously needs to work on his delivery if he wants to continue to toss out one liners.  Hint: watch relevant comedians who’s careers weren’t at their peak when TV was still in black and white. 

Republicans­ aren’t principall­y concerned with solving problems; their goals are ideologica­l.

The right believes programs like abstinence only education work, even when they don’t work, so long as ideologica­l goals are being met. Real-world implicatio­ns are meaningles­s.

Exactly what kind of parade was this? I don’t recall ever seeing that plastered all over the TV and media. I mean I get it that you didn’t feel super duper about it and wasn’t glad nor happy about it. But, again exactly what kind of parade was this that showed this in front of children?

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Anybody-But-Santorum/107269866066108

Please cite the area in the Constitution you are referring too.

Childish. Just childish. We would have ZERO elected officials if we were to question their large variety of wealthy supporters. But then again, all’s fair… If ANY of our “representatives” at any level had at least ONE testicle (or ovary), the response to these childish questions would easily be: “I didnt say it, he did. I have never said anything similar. He does. I want to be president. He wants me to be but that has zero to do with my efforts.”
NEXT QUESTION.

You suppose a hypocrisy of mine with regards to Wright when I didn’t touch upon him?  Oh well.  Santorum did in the clip.  But even here, one can assume the stale joke that didn’t go over of a supporter and casual friend is not to be taken to heart nearly as much as the sermonizing of your chosen pastor – whose proclivity of castigating your country and dominant culture is, in your judgement, sufficiently acceptable to expose yourself to weekly repetitions of it over a period of 20 years.  One doesn’t expect Santorum to be informed through Freiss on matters of contraception or conscience.  One doesn’t expect Obama to NOT be imbued on some level with Wright’s worldview or antipathies.

The hypocrisy YOU demonstrate is that when we listened to what Wright had to say, tried to understand from where such comments issued (Black Liberation Theology) and made the determination that Obama showed horrible judgement to have continued to associate with it (showing, ultimately, how in sink is he with the message and on what segment he wished to rely as his political support base), you here deem to criticize us for it when you clearly didn’t (else showed that, knowing it, you didn’t care).

But I am agreed this is a distraction – not with equivalency in regards to Rev. Wright but only for those who are unconcerned with Santorum being a papist who might put church doctrine before the constitution.  His privately held beliefs being clearly defined as separate from his public stances shows that he wouldn’t.  Therefore, for anyone not already bigoted against Catholics, this is nothing – and having Santorum respond to Freiss’s joke is ridiculous.  Glad you’re not beating that horse.

You wish to conflate my response with your interaction with someone else.

I don’t.

My critique stands on its own.

I don’t use it myself, but ‘Obummer’ is the mildest form of incivility and it is no great point – n pursuance of a ‘words fight’ – to take issue with it.

 Record 19 reporters, media execs join Team Obama
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/record-19-reporters-media-execs-join-team-obama/380971

“Santorum being a papist who might put church doctrine before the constitution.”

They said the same thing about JFK

“Waaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!  You media guys aren’t fair.  Obama gets birther questions and I get this.  Waaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!”

Rick ‘The Whiner’ Santorum

if such laws were passed would you be inclined to delete your quotation marks from the word “patient”?…  would the stroke of a president’s or governor’s pen all of a sudden make your “patient” a real human being?…  i understand the legal nightmares that can ensue, but i’m just curious as to when humanity is actually achieved by this “patient”…  legal definitions aside, an 8 month old “patient” is no less human than a newborn baby just because they are on opposite sides of the birth canal…

Gay pride parades in SF and Boston and all over about 20 years ago.

so you don’t realize liberals aren’t immune to everything emma accuses conservatives of?…

sad, indeed…

The fear on the part of liberals like you is just palpable.
 
Let’s see here. Obama(Mac Daddy) is the byproduct of
1960s left wing radicalismand extremis wearing a Gucci suit and tie. By the lucky fate of
his skin color, he was given a pass by those guilt-ridden whitel liberals like you who would never have voted for him
otherwise. Had he been white, his associations with left wing radicals, domestic terrorists, and
corrupt religious-facade community organizers would not have given him one
minute of credibility as a Presidential candidate.

Do we really need to go over all the lies Obuma has uttered? Plzzz

But you have zero problems with Obama and his disgusting class-warfare and anti-American rhetoric
and actions that continue to transform America and   undermine our
Constitution.  Obama, and his “I never knew an America I liked”
wife lurking in the shadows of his Presidency – figuratively spell Amerika with
“k”, their communist manifesto always in the forefront of their
thinking. That doesn’t bother you, right?  I guess not because  To Obama and people like you”….everyone is wrong because
I’m fundamentally smarter,”

I submit it’s time to refer
to him universally as Hugo Obama. Even the most blinded of Liberals should then
begin to see through his half-baked veneer.

I don’t know how old you are but 20 or 30 years ago it was a big deal.
Today people talk about it like they are having a tooth pulled.
And there are plenty of woman who have had 4 or 5 abortions and think of it nothing more than an inconvienece.
I am a conservative person.But I am pro choice.But its still killing of a human life.
F’n liberals.
Save the whales.Kill the babies.

BSnbc is the propaganda mill for the Obama catastrophe.
They will never do anything to jeopardize their fearless reader of a President.

http://massresistance.org/docs/marriage/effects_of_ssm.html

Get your head out of Obama’s arse for once.

I guess you could say that…if you ignored every other word that came out of that idiot’s mouth.

But once you listen to the context, you realize he had a point he was trying to convey, not reminiscening about anything.

You see, that makes no sense at all. Obama is a lefty, you are not. You think it is class war. It is just a difference of perspective. There is an election coming to decide who wins the argument. What you fail to realize is that your dislike of Obama is really not that interesting a topic. It is too personal and pointless. You don’t like him. So what?

Ass wipe…..He was never asked about those things…..you were made aware of it by conservative blogs and Fox News…..NEVER, NEVER , NEVER heard it on CNN, PMSNBC, or HLN…………..NEVER !!!!!!!.

Sorry buddy the Birther question may or may not be correct but REV WRIGHT”S 20 YRS is A TRUTH OBAMA never answered. The media and charlie rose hid it. Now if you have never been to one of these Black Theology Churches how would you KNOW. While we are at it lets talk about the bonehead sweetheart LOAN deal Obama got from a COMVICTED FELON, RESKO.

That wasn’t VETTED either.Just wait This time Obama will get VETTED

Santorum has learned how to get the tea party vote….whine about the media that tea party people hate but candidates desperately need.

If he really had a problem with the media, he wouldn’t have done the interview. 

I am not a big fan of Obama or his arse for that matter and did not vote for him. I vote for the person who will do the best job — not the party.

I don’t live in Massachusetts, but I read the article anyway. I applaud them for being one of the first states to allow gay marriage.

I have never understood why people believe that gays and straights can’t co-exist in the same world with the same rights and same priveleges. 

Plus, the donor doesn’t even appear to know Santorum’s views on the issue. He insisted to Lawrence O’Donnell that Santorum does NOT want to ban contraception and that he has never said anything along those lines, which is clearly not the case.

These people go in front of cameras and say outrageous things… then they and their supporters insist that the words don’t mean what the words mean. 

The joke wasn’t not in sympathy with women. It essentially told us that if we don’t want to have babies, we should just keep our legs shut.

So I guess my next question would be– Why on earth would a 10 year old be there? Did he just happen to stumble upon it? Did his parents take him to a gay pride parade? Was the 10 year old gay and wanted to express his pride?  I’m confused as to how a 10 year old ended up at a gay pride parade.
 
If in fact this 10 year old was at this parade, how do you know that he was upset by what he saw. Did you personally talk to him? Was he interviewed by the media? Or are you the one who is upset with what he saw?
 
I think a more likely explanation is– there was no 10 year old at that parade and if indeed there was, you are merely trying to invoke some sort of outrage at your own disapproval of the gay community.

Rights to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness,freedom of religion,right to bear arms,freedom of speech to name a few of the choices we get to exercise. To me the first three could be construed as choices that were being denied a woman that wanted or needed birth control.

My intent wasn’t to accuse you of hypocrisy. Apologies if it read like that. I just get a chuckle over seeing the “Denunciation Game!” getting played out whenever someone affiliated w/ a candidate says something risque.

My comment was generated specifically around your quote about “close their mouths” and “open minds” in regards to Friess’s comment. You claim we need empathy with Friess? Why no empathy for Wright?

Your incredibly verbose reply didn’t seem to address the point I was making at all.

donor? like giving a kidney when you need a heart. and the media doesn’t want to talk about his candidacy. how naive can you be? It’s outrageous you don’t think the media is bias, outrageous of the truly undeniable double standard with a complete disregard for what matters most about a candidate. Trivial things like this would be swept under the rug if he was a democrat. Bigger issues even swept under. You are right on one thing. The media isn’t out to get Santorum: They’re out to get all conservatives.

They’re all alike. When they can’t defend, attack the media. You would think the page of that playbook had worn out. 

How does a person get angry with Charlie Rose? It’s like watching someone get into a shouting match with a glass of water. 

Whaaaaaa!!!!  Call me a Whambulance!!!!

Interesting!  And what standards are you using when you say “he is a good man”?

With regard to Aspiringate, I do believe Santorum has explained himself adequately. But what he doesn’t get (or is trying to slough off) is that responsibility for the remark is not the question. It’s How close to Santorum’s personal beliefs does the comment come? He’s got a mixed and unsettling record in the area, to say the least.

But the most provocative comment in this clip has nothing to do with a male politician’s unseemly obsession with teenage girls’ chastity — it’s his promise (toward the end of the segment) to “take out” Iranian nuclear facilities if they don’t comply with some vaguely defined sanctions Santorum would propose be imposed.

So here’s a guy promising airstrikes (and covert operations) against a sovereign state as part of his platform. Even if Obama happened to agree that such actions were necessary, at least he’s not stupid enough to advertise them.

Santorum is as much of a loose cannon as Gingrich. He’s just pointed in a different direction.

the media is generally more contemptable than the politicians…aside from a few individuals the lot of them — both media & politicians are a ‘self important waste’.

not all Liberals are lazy (most aren’t) but all lazy people are Liberal (it’s simply self-serving).

Conservatives will rue the day they made reducing women’s healthcare their issue.

 I know that, valk. But those aren’t women who are getting abortions.

Rick Santorum on Mad Men: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1bPoSEii2M

search: Mad Men – Peggy and the gynecologist (1×01)

We do define a fetus as a person, unless the mother kills it. Ask Scott Petersen. You’ll find him on death row because of it.

Red states provide more services to the government than blue states. That isn’t welfare. This is welfare:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/01/25/us/20090126-welfare-table.html

Well, my disagreement with the highlighted comment was in general terms to begin with.  I read it as quite the stunning display of agist sentiment (though I didn’t really want to level the charge) so often seen in the culture. That which followed was merely supportive evidence of the first two paragraphs.

I agree with you that ‘gotcha’ game is worse than pointless – it’s a distraction.  But is there a reason we should perhaps empathize with Freiss and not Wright?  Freiss’s controversy was to say he didn’t really care about an issue and bombed with an old stand-by in trying to pass it off when pressed – Wright’s controversy was one of his core beliefs.  I think it was a poor choice of you to try to equate them.  Something like ’57 states’ would’ve been more appropriate.

I take umbrage with ‘verbose,’ though, sir.  Umbrage!

A second Civil War would be those tiny thin strips of red growing agitated enough to poke those big blocks of blue.

Heh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Red_state,_blue_state.svg

A lot of those blue states are already going red, and as it stands you’ve got the 3 West Coast states, the upper midwest and the northeast blue. The rest? Just tiny red strips…where all the food comes from. 

And I expect Santorum will at some point have to give a speech similar to that which JFK was forced to deliver.

The more things change…

Actually, I think it has worn out. While just about anyone, anywhere in the political spectrum, can reasonably point a finger at media bias somewhere, the right has elevated the concept to Favorite Gun status …and they’ve just about used up the whole clip.

Even the ‘Lican base is tired of that old shoe, and wants its pols to start taking care of business — despite the wicked leftist media — instead of whining about it all the time.

J, m’boy, it’s pretty silly to talk of something being hidden (even by Charlie Rose!), if we’re still talking about it 4 years later. That’s not hidden, that’s done to death.

The point of the matter is that the Reverend Wright issue has been assessed by the people and found to be unimportant. Similarly with the Resko loan.

Voters just don’t care. If you do, please accept that you’re in a tiny minority.

Wow! Knowledgeable and well-connected inside-the-Beltway types getting jobs in government! That’s never happened.

You seem awfully pissed off. Flop sweat much?

Riiiight. Freiss was trying to build a bridge — from the 19th Century.

Frankly, I don’t think Santorum is willing to subordinate his faith to the rule of law and the welfare of Americans, which is why he is not fit for public office.

>but i’m just curious as to when humanity is actually achieved by this “patient”… legal definitions aside, an 8 month old “patient” is no less human than a newborn baby just because they are on opposite sides of the birth canal…<

You mean other than the fact that a fetus does not breath air but a new born baby does? They call that first baby breath "the breath of life" for a reason.

Another brand of madness. Twisted fantasy my dear Pablo.

sad I thought he was presidential material, but now I know he is not

Well, then, that just makes you a bigoted leftist idiot who can neither read nor hear.

… the more things remain the same.

Amen, Rick, Amen! Way to go. Time to shut these wacko talking heads on the far left, up! These wacko, liberal goons give Rev. Wright, the Pentagon bomber, illegal real estate deals by Obama, Fast & Furious, Solyndra type deals a pass whereas someone says someting like a bad joke and the Republican candidates are sent to Libbers Hell. Enough already. Us Conservatives, both Indies and Repubs ain’t taking it no more. No Mas I tell ya…No Mas!

seek456 It wasn’t outrageous. It was an old joke that mean’t that women of that era had no choice. It wasn’t making fun of women, it wasn’t making fun of men – it was what was before the pill was readily available.  
LOL. Did you just read what you wrote?

It was a reminder (bad one) when women DID NOT have a choice so yes it was a stupid thing to say almost 50 years after the pill was invented so women (couples)would have a choice as to when and how many children they would bear.                    

YOU LIE!!!

Do you understand #1: the data represented in my graphic #2: the implications vis-a-vis brother Norbit’s hysteria?

it is clear that you have built a tangled and complex framework of percieved rights, risks that have been very much mitigated in medicine, and a the misinterpretration of freedom for one at the expense of another, in order for you to justify what you advocate….with the endgame of your arguement being “well the baby isn’t breathing air yet”

you know in your heart what you are doing…

And stop telling yourself that one does not have a choice prior to conception…you know its a lie.

Your non substansive response is noted

google “maxine” and “demon” and please quite making yourself look so darn mis informed…

did you fix yourself yet on maxine water’s comments .  I understand you not hearing about it until i mentioned it…it is the result of the liberal echo chamber you live in.

This is a very stupid “show” from the Left!  If they think he is not responsible, then why the hell question him about it!  Why not ask Obama about what Wright says?  Why not question Obama about his Communist Green Idiot, Van Jones, who spews sickening views about everything, and especially since Obama appointed him to his cabinet?  The Left have different standards from the Right and they seem to believe in everything that is horribly BAD for America and Americans!  God, let rid ourselves of the whores son in November and get a decent nonlying person in the Oval Office!

And your on your knees, sucking up everything Obama tells you!  How braindead are you, Emma?

Bravo.  With you all the way Bill.  We have to stop Barry and his Socialist Side Show.  The Lame Stream Media is also the Liberal Left Loons for Marxist Madness.

Spread the word in 2012 and say it loud.  I’m a Capitalist and I’m Proud.

Say it Louder, Barry is a Marxist and he MUST BE STOPPED.

SPREAD THE WORD OKIE.  We will have to do this as an underground of free and powerful press.  It has worked throughout histroy and we can’t let the Insane Media Posse drown out our individual voices.  Any time you hear a person spewing the Liberal Left Talking Points, give them the FACTS.  People want the TRUTH BUT MANY ARE TOO LAZY TO FIND. 

Get under their skin with the FACTS.  They will soon start to understand the lies.  The youth have figured out the Socialist Agenda already…most don’t have jobs or are not using their education.  There are only so many gubment jobs and not enough for the millions of young who want a real future. 

Santorum definitely is going to be a gOOD President if he wins.

The media is not dioing the job. So it is natural!

So he forgot to ask you about whether too give Interview or not!

I hope you are wrong!

Your key board is not working

Democrats could not even get the budget !

record?

You doing fine. Good for you!

They are doing their job.
They are working to get Obama reelected.

Nothing is a right. It is all made up. Something can be a choice and a right. 

Not even a little bit. Maybe I just disagree with you.

Good one.

MONDAYS_OPINIONCollapse”screwed like rabbits”        You must have gotten the message from the pig Rush Limbaugh.He thinks the only people who want birth control are screwing like rabbits. Such backwards people are in the Republican/Tea Party

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No, I got it from rrk, who said, “In the 60′s and 70′s sex was all over the place. By comparison, we Americans are prudes now. ”

uh, no. it wasn’t.

Are you people nuts, talking about a civil war and the logistics.  Haven’t you learned anything since the last civil war?

the joke showed an ignorant man who thinks women should say no to sex or be punished. that is the time the 50s reflect. bad women had sex. men, of course, were cool if they did.
married women can have sex, but then they must become pregnant.
the GOP neocons want to go back to 1901. they are miserable about any kind of progress women and minorities made. the joke represents how he feels about women. if santorum doesn’t step away from it, it will reflect poorly on him. you can deny it, be angry about it and blame the liberal media (start with the fox affiliates..) but that won’t change the way women feel about the idea that they should be punished for having sex or be the ones who say ‘no’ by shutting their knees.
how can anyone not see that?

You saying that
doesn’t make it so. He wasn’t Vetted but he will be this time. But Hey let his
tenure as president be his Talking point he can start with Obamacare, oh wait he
doesn’t use that issue and we know why, FEAR and it’s about to be a Supreme
Failure, But why would You care You’re an expatriot?

Now that’s what I want in a GOP candidate for President; A fighter who doesn’t cow-tow to Liberal MSM Talking Heads that are just really trying to elect Obamamama for four more years! NO MORE OBAMUNISM! Go Rick Santorum, the fighter for the middle-class and the poor!!!

That means that I have a Baptist belief on traditionalism, and can seem very anti-gay. However, I live in New York and have friends that are Gay so I am compassionate to them as a christian and fellow American. That means I have a christian belief that makes abortion hard for me to understand, but I have sisters, a mother, and friends who have had them, and i sympathize and know God acceptaed everyone and we are all responsible for our own decisions and it is not for me to vote my faith into law, understanding the separation between church and state. The Bible and the Constitution. I am fiscally conservative and if President, would balance the budget in the first year making a lot of people very upset, but I would also let those people decide where those cuts are going to be and work with the people most in need as much as possible, still reaching the goal of making huge cuts, by executive decision if necessary.

I am pro-civil rights and for the little guy. You will rarely find me defending someone who makes countless millions a year over a teacher janitor or teen working at McDonalds.

I believe in helping people, but no giving out handouts. Retraining, skills building, interview prepping and career counseling should be mandatory with any government welfare foodstamp or unemployment check. That time you are collecting assitance unable to get a job, you could be getting a degree or building employable skills. Noone should just be sitting at home waiting by the phone for an opportunity.

This is my theory of politics and it’s role in our society. Conservative, democratic, responsible, and compassionate.

So health care at your job is free? I thought it came out of your check? Idiot.