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Piers Morgan To Rick Santorum: ‘Does Rick Santorum Like Women?’

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Rick Santorum is no stranger to the set of Piers Morgan, having fielded fairly difficult questions from the CNN host not so long ago. Tonight, he returned at the top of several national polls, and after a segment where Morgan and Santorum discussed the current status of his campaign and whether he was happy with how far he had gotten, Morgan brought up a question that many moderate to liberal voters have of the candidate: “Does Rick Santorum like women?”

RELATED: Piers Morgan To Santorum: Would You Let Your Daughter Get An Abortion After Rape?

Despite how pointed the question was, Santorum took it in good spirits, as Morgan elaborated the premise for it: given the current contraception debate in the media, many are wondering whether his opinion on birth control and abortion meant that he had a backward understanding of the place women have in society. “It would seem to me,” Morgan told Santorum, “that your view about contraception is that, basically, it is wrong outside of marriage.”

Santorum thought that was a fair assessment of the way he perceived it. “That is the Catholic Church’s position on it, period. It’s wrong.” He did not think it was the government’s position to make a statement on that, though. He noted that “it should be available” and that he had voted for funding for contraception “domestically and internationally, and would not support any law that would prevent that.” His objection was not with the legality of it, but with the imposition of it on religious institutions.

Morgan then left the topic of contraception to ask Santorum about a subject no one else likely would have asked Rick Santorum: Whitney Houston. “Celebrities are the aristocracy of America,” Santorum replied, adding that he considered her death “disturbing,” especially since “you see, in a sense, the royalty of America setting such a poor example.”

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  • Anonymous

    Does Piers Morgan like women? I highly doubt it!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Shut up, sweetheart, now go in the kitchen and make me a baby!

  • sid_id

    Do you like women? I hardly think so!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Funk only likes men.

  • Anonymous

    The better question is: Rick, why do you have such little faith in American women?

  • Anonymous

    I really don’t like Piers, BUT he hit the nail on the head with this one! any man so consumed with trying to exert his dominance over women, has to have some deep seated issues with women. 
     I mean shit, you can just tell by looking at him. he is your typical anti social, akward , angry christian conservative who wants to impose his belief structure on everyone else, because he knows whats good for them. I really hope he wins the nomination, it means Daily Show, Colbert and Bill Maher will have tons of material for the rest of the year, But then again, it’s probably like that for any of the 3 GOP clowns running for office. (not including RP. in that list of clowns, I consider him more of a libertarian/conservative, not repug) 

  • Anonymous

    who cares, hes not running for office is he?

  • Anonymous

    Rick Santorum has never done anything in his public life that would make a reasonable (yes, I said a *reasonable* person – this may or may not apply to you, dear reader) wonder if he “likes women.” It is just a ridiculously loaded question. That the liberal media insists on pretending garbage like this somehow an actual issue is sadly typical.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    Rick, don’t let them distract you from the germane issue:
    The Democrats WAR ON RELIGION!

  • Anonymous

    WOW.  LDK hopes that Santorum wins the nomination so Liebowitz, Colbert and Maher will have material.  I hope you get a life short one.

  • Anonymous

    why thanks for wishing for my early demise, mighty christian of ya! Nice touch, using Jon’s real last name, is that a tinge of antisemitism I see there?  seriously? get a sense of humor dude.

  • Anonymous

    Norby, I have an extra keyboard I can fedex you! There is obviously something wrong with your caps lock. 

  • Anonymous

    Morgan’s ‘dog-whistle:’ “I need to ask you questions that will make you look worse than my beloved Brick OBAMO.”

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     I just love hearing myself type that!

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     ‘Does Rick Santorum Like Women?’

    Does Piers Morgan Like Women?

  • Anonymous

    Of course he likes women!

    He owns one, doesn’t he?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ketan-Pattani/100000305045290 Ketan Pattani

    What about Rick’s war on other religions?   Islam for example.  Profile Muslims, eh?

  • Anonymous

    According to Larry Sinclair Obama likes boys.

  • J M

    BarryHu is an asshat idiot right winger.. Yes BitchassBarryHu, make frothy boy your nominee.. PLEASEEEEE. That 20 point drubbing in 2006 will look gentle by comparison..

  • Anonymous

    JM is a liberal loser who just wants to make sure that he continues to receive his food stamps and welfare.

  • Anonymous

    Why not ask a pro-choicer whether they like babies?

  • J M

    yes.. run on that war on religion thing. Your gonna get beat worse than John McCain in November. Poll after Poll show that republicans have oversteps their bounds with the general public. Yes you can get arseholes like Norbit, Tina, Pablo and Gloves riled up but you not the majority. Its funny because you kinda almost had this election in the bag.

  • J M

    find a candidate that doesnt offend almost 3/4ths of this country.  then talk to me.

  • J M

    does Norbit sit at his computer typing furiously 10 hours a day against any so called “librul slight”? lmao. youre a loser. 

  • Anonymous

    If they make me sandwiches… yes!

  • jeff martin

    i guess rick disagrees with his own church they have no exeptions for married people

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    Yes, we remember the thrashing the Republicans took in 2010!

    It’ll be kept simple:
    Freedom vs. Government Servitude.

    How about, as a starter:
    “First they came for your taxes; Now They’ve Come For Your Religion.”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    He likes hacking their phones.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Is Tabloid Piers implying that the GOP has another Ted Haggard on its hands?

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     What exactly does that talking point mean, “profile muslims”, and what in Rick’s proposals indicate he’s advocating it?

  • Anonymous

     Ah Typical Ron Paul supporter, doesn’t see anything wrong with Islam.

    I got a joke for all ten of you Ron Paul supporters: A confused liberal running for the  Republican nomination walks into a bar, the bartender says hey Ron.  

    Ha Ha Ha, i will be all night folks!

  • Anonymous

     And also your children’s lunch boxes.  MICHELLE

  • Anonymous

     Well i did ask pro-choicer that very question.

    And it’s reply was:  “what babies, I killed all mine”   TRUE STORY 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ketan-Pattani/100000305045290 Ketan Pattani

    We see all the wrongs.  We are just calling out all the hypocrites.  You want others to follow the Golden Rule, but you boo when you are called out to do the same.  You are bible thumping but what happened to “Thou shalt not kill”.  Oh! I see that applies only to a woman’s womb, right!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ketan-Pattani/100000305045290 Ketan Pattani
  • Ch Ob

     Rick looks like the kind of person that might come to the center. Nobody can run this country from the extremes, whether they be right or left.

  • J M

    Id actually LOVE to compare bank account $numbers with you BarryHu. Youd get embarrassed thoroughly. Matter of fact that whole line of thinking “Liberals are unemployed and broke” isnt even working for you tin hat folks anymore you chickenhawk slackjawed redneck Bible Clinger. You and your rightwinged lot are the butt of jokes EVERYWHERE in the world. Youd know that if you actually traveled outside of your stupid flyover town. 

  • J M

    lmao!! people arent even coming out to vote in YOUR primaries! Only 300000 people voted in that 3 state Santorum sweep.. lol.. yea you guys are fired up alright. No one likes Mitt and Santorum is a nutjob with no crossover appeal. Good luck attracting all of those Independents/Women/Minorities with Mr. Frothy pants.

  • Tyler Read

    Did you know that the Qur’an mentions Jesus more often than the Prophet Muhammad?

    Santorum said that equality doesn’t come from Islam but from the “God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob”. Remarkable that a man who thinks that he can lead a democratic nation of 300 million is not even aware that Muslims follow an Abrahamic faith.

    Putrid.

  • Love of Country

    Every time you see another news network up close you are reminded why Fox News has been number 1 every year for over a decade.

  • Anonymous

    If they stay in the Kitchen.  

  • Love of Country

    He might could win over the middle but not by capitulating.  He’s a solid conservative on most fronts and I don’t see him yielding to the middle but the middle can come to respect him if he does his job well as a conservative. For example, if he pulled a Gov Christie and turned everything around then the middle will come to him.

    I’m not comparing him to Reagan but Reagan won over the entire country and he was rather conservative Reagan was re-elected winning 49 states and was just shy of winning Montana too.

  • Anonymous

     Wrong again Tyler Read (I assume you are related to Harry Reid but misspelled your own name?)

    I shall now completely debunk the nucleus of your argument, with one simple question.

    In the quran is Jesus Christ, the son of GOD or is he but a simple prophet of Muhammad. 

    So are you Tyler Read suggesting, that the quran is anything else then a completely false narrative. And that us Christians and Jews should accept what the “prophet Muhammad” (Tell me one thing he ever correctly prophesied) claims in the quran that the son of God is noting but a simple prophet of a child molesting murderer?

       

  • Anonymous

     Yes, 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 Faux news.

  • Anonymous

    Solid conservative……as if that’s a good thing. LOLOL!!

  • Anonymous

    Propaganda fools a lot of people.  

  • Love of Country

    No kidding …. it got Comrad Dingle Barry elected ….. that’s some scary sh t!

  • Love of Country

    I see you trade exclusively in projection …. projection is a patsie’s best friend. lmfao.

  • Love of Country

    Solid conservative = Tea Party = upstanding and patriotic

    Solid liberal = OWS = crime and anarchy

    You tards are destined to live in squalor and crime until the ends of time no matter how much money Republicans give you.  When you point your fingers at your superiors across the aisle it indicates your terminal adolescence and it also tells us all that self conrol, self respect and self accountability will always be four letter words in progressive circles.

    And as such, we pity the fools!

    Liberalism is a LIE!

  • Love of Country

    Pierce has a queer eye for the straight guy!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_P27OZ7IRYVJ4W5MDA265QCQGKA Swfloridagal Gal

    Ha!  JM just handed you your A$$!!!!!  Love it!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_P27OZ7IRYVJ4W5MDA265QCQGKA Swfloridagal Gal

     You just love hearing yourself, PERIOD!

  • Anonymous

    Repubs always turn it around.  Forget about Santo, shine the light on Morgan.  Usually you types, no matter what the topic, find some way to attack Obama.  I’m impressed by your show of restraint.

  • Anonymous

    Religious groups have been getting away too long, unchallenged, with discrimination against women and other groups, such as gays.  They say it is a question of religious freedom to believe that God discriminates against women.  Totally outrageous. 

  • bsorin1

    He loves women: as long as:  they are pregnant; home school their numerous children; write phrases like “radical feminists have undermined family life and done harm to women;” go to mass daily; and look adoringly at their husbands when they are running for President.

  • Anonymous

    I didn’t realize that NYC is a “flyover city”.  JM and his liberal fairies are  a joke and to every real working American in NYC.  Furthermore, I’ll accept you apology in advance of comparing accounts.  I’ll even give you a break and let you shine my shoes before I go to work this morning as you could use the $3.  Florida gal needs more than $3 so I’ll give her an extra dollar.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Obviously, Santorum likes pederasts. 
    He gave Jerry Sandusky a Congressional “Angel of Adoption” Award…AFTER he had been busted buggering an at risk kid in the Penn State showers!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Yet another reason not to watch CNN.  How stupid of Piers.

  • Anonymous

    You are an overt antichristian. Ain’t no tinge about it! Just joking. Peace

  • Centrist79

    War on Religion is a losing strategy for Republicans, maybe if we hear on jobs, the economy, and budget issues then we have something to debate. You remind me of the movie Wag the Dog, where they invented wars as a distraction to real issues.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     There’s the problem, the Left’s misapplication of “Profile”; similar to their politically selective use of “Racism”.

    It seems it’s Profiling and Racist when those monickers serve their political goals, but not when they don’t!
    (see: Obama’s campaign manager’s racist barb against Hispanics – story carried on Mediaite.)

  • Anonymous

    Of course he likes women. As long as they stay home, do the laundry, cook dinner, take care of the kids, tidy up the house, have sex without contraceptives, & deliver the baby. I wonder if Rick’s wife has to be in the company of a man whenever she goes out & dawns a burka.

  • Anonymous

    Please please please nominate him. We’re begging you!

  • Anonymous

    Too bad that pro choicer wasn’t your mom :-(

  • Anonymous

    Meanwhile, Rick Santorum (Penn State alum) defends the Catholic Church for child rape & even honors Jerry Sandusky an award for his work with children.

  • Anonymous

    He doesn’t need to ask him questions to make him look worse than Obama. He just needs to let Santorum speak.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, keep pumping up he “war on religion”. While everyone else’s top issue is the economy & the housing market, focus on the “war on religion”.

  • Anonymous

    Did the Republicans win in 2010 with religion?

  • Anonymous

    Denying women birth control & bashing Michelle Obama for fighting childhood obesity seem like winning strategies for the Republicans. I think you should go with them.

  • Anonymous

    So religious freedom is okay as long as its your religion. Gotcha.

  • Anonymous

    Who cares if the Quran doesn’t consider Jesus the son of God? Can you prove that Jesus is the son of God? Can you prove that Jesus even existed? Can you prove that God exists? The basis of your life is pure fantasy, grow up!

  • Centrist79

    My take is that Morgan gave him the question for Rick to address some of his statements on women in the past week. Morgan has said that he likes Santorum, so I suspect he was giving him a chance to clarify his statements. Notice how Rick didn’t really flinch at the question.

  • Anonymous

    Between Norbit, Tina_Tampa, and From_my_cold_dead_hands, I’m convinced that you have to be sad, lonely, & clinically insane to be a conservative now days. Keep up the great work guys, you’re making it so much easier for the liberals.

  • Anonymous

    Doesn’t matter if Piers Morgan likes women or not. Does Rick Santorum defend child rape & honor child rapists? Yes he does!!!!!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ketan-Pattani/100000305045290 Ketan Pattani

    If you haven’t noticed my icon, I am not “Left”

    What if that terrorist looks like Timothy McVeigh?  The only reason it is easy to say to profile Muslims is because there are not enough brown people in this country for Americans to know the difference between a brown Muslim and a brown Christian and it appears popular and patriotic to profile(us vs them).  

    Besides just because 40 thugs identifying themselves as Muslims(most of them Saudis) do a terrorism doesn’t mean that 1.6 billion people in the world have to be groped.

    I saw a video of a Saudi Embassy diplomat saying that they were told to just grant the visas before 9/11 occurred.  So the problem isn’t that Muslims are “terrorists”, the problem is the embassy granting visas didn’t do it’s job.  If I can find that video, I will post it up.

  • Anonymous

    It’s turned around and ridiculed because its a loaded BS question…and you know it.  The whole arguement revolves around what the govornment does and does not have the right to do.

    Throwing the “do you like women?” question in is simply bait for for DNC soundbites that are then fed to idiots and fools to digest. 

    Should we ask Obama if he likes catholics? 

  • Anonymous

    And a better question still….why do liberals have such little faith in the African American community, that they have to lower achievment standards for them at every opportunity?

    Don’t blame me….with your silly question, you turned off the exit into stupidville first….

  • Cecelia

    I wish Rick had replied the same way my husband does whenever I ask him if he likes some female he has just met, etc.

    “Parts of her”

  • Anonymous

    Inciting violence again I see…

  • Anonymous

    I think a more appropriate question is
    Does Piers Morgan like an erect penis???

  • Anonymous

     To do what? Destroy what’s left of this country?

  • Anonymous

    How is he country being “destroyed”? Are you alluding to the economic recovery, the end of the Iraq war, & addressing the healthcare crisis?

  • Anonymous

    How did the state run media elect Barry if Fox News is #1?

  • Anonymous

    How is that inciting violence?

  • Anonymous

    BarryHu you live in NYC? Thank goodness for the electoral college, your vote will mean NOTHING.

  • Anonymous

    BarryHu only likes his cousin.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SMUGSPLRKQOJBS5T6I4S5H2YSE Andy-48

     Reagan raised taxes 14 times…I could go for that but…..There is not a single republican that is willing to raise taxes on any segment of society except for raising the taxes on the middle and lower classed if they enact a “flat tax”.  Cain’s 9.9.9 plan would have cut taxes on the wealthy by $200,000 and raised taxes on the middle class by $2,000 and would have caused a budget deficit.

    By now after the Bush tax cuts on the wealthy we have seen that cutting the taxes on the wealthy doesn’t create jobs in America. It creates jobs in places like the Cayman Islands for the “tax cheats”.

    I get the Right Wing Newsletter Newsmax every day. Many days they have ads that try to get you to follow their ad so more wealthy people can join the 40% of Rich Americans that are paying ZERO in taxes. So when you hear that 47% of Americans aren’t paying taxes at all. That leaves 7% of America’s poor aren’t paying taxes.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SMUGSPLRKQOJBS5T6I4S5H2YSE Andy-48

     You’re an idiot, plain and simple.

  • Anonymous

    Pay no mind to StonePark (whatever the incarnation is now, I don’t know, XXCMVIII?) She’s having a tough time “swallowing” all of this santorum.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SMUGSPLRKQOJBS5T6I4S5H2YSE Andy-48

     I know how you feel. For a religion that is based on Christ they sure don’t follow his teachings. And I never read one word from Christ about gays. The Church has selective amnesia when it comes to the Abominations— where there are 362 Abominations, and only one is about Gays. All the others many of the Christian Taliban are guilty of every day if they’d read the Bible.

    Just one Abomination that I’m sure all of the Christian Taliban is guilty of.
    Women. Wearing a Latex Bra under their Cotton Blouse, Dress or T-Shirt.
    Men. Wearing underwear with an elastic waistband.

  • Anonymous

    And of course, this is clearly evident to you. Got it.

  • Anonymous

    Pretty much any “conservative” scum bag has that going for them these days, Andy. There is no hope for them.

  • Anonymous

    NoBits and the rest of the “conservatives” here on Mediaite spend their off hours in a a circle jerk watching zombie reagan porn with their uncledads.

  • Anonymous

    Oh, it’s Stonepark, figures.

  • Anonymous

    Rape is such a violent crime.  Rick answers questions about rape – the same way he does about ordering eggs for breakfast – without an ounce of passion or understanding.

    He has never had to walk in the shoes of a father, brother or friend of a woman who has been raped.  He talks like a man who lives in a “Neverland” kind of life – not real.

    Would he feel the same way if rape happened to one of his own.  I don’t know.  But I would hope that he would. 

    I don’t want a man like this as my president.  I don’t want his zealous point of views inserted into the way this country is governed.  His loss – is the country’s gain.

  • Anonymous

    With all of the children Rick Santorum has fathered, it would have been a shock if he had answered Piers by saying:  “Piers, I have chosen your show to come out of the closet.  Can you get me a date with Larry King?”

  • Anonymous

    Piers Morgan may think he’s dinging people with kind of question, but he’s really just tossing out grapefruits. Smarten up, Piers.

  • Love of Country

    Ah …. projection …. very telling …. fish in a barrel!

    Now go burn the flag and beg for wealth redistribution, you foolish and predictably bitter snot nosed tard. You libs are so uncomfortable with the truth … cry me a river full of tears!

  • Tyler Read

    “In the quran is Jesus Christ, the son of GOD or is he but a simple prophet of Muhammad?”

    Jesus is respected in the Qur’an as being a true messiah of God.

    The Muslim faith may be a false narrative to YOU but the Judea-Christian is a false narrative to many others. Grow up.

  • Joan Kelly

    Did anyone notice Santorum giving credence to the Health Care Act by mentioning that doctors of today have the ability to check a patients records to see what drugs have been prescribed???  That’s huge, people and we can thank President Obama for it.

  • Anonymous

    Just the fact you said, “when I go to work this morning, tells me your nothing but a peon, worker bee!, a slave being employed by someone smarter than you like me, who has a company and employs people. But then again, you probably wouldn’t even pass the initial interview. One of our questions is :Do you believe in Global Warming? Its a great way to weed out the freeks and losers who dont believe in science, because if you don’t believe in science, you have no place working for me So you live in NYC JM? You must hate life! Being surrounded by all of the “liberul eleat” 

  • Anonymous

    FROTH ONLY LIKE 1 WOMAN.  THAT MRS FROTH.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LFQ7WH3OOZHG4AYQQD25OFQBGY NickyLouse

    If anyone is worried that a Christian kook who actually seeks guidance from the Bible may want to discriminate against women, ask the daughters of Zelophehad (Numbers 27) who were given their father’s inheritance in a time when women were considered the same as cattle.
    http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=num27:1-11&version=NIV1984

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LFQ7WH3OOZHG4AYQQD25OFQBGY NickyLouse

    Babies are a punishment according to our President.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNbaig-D5pk

  • gypsy cat

    it has been proven that the media in this country is not a liberal one. proven.  go look it up. while you’re there, check how liberal murdoch is. he owns the media, and conservative to the core.  this IS an actual issue.  where do you live? italy? we don’t live by the rules of the catholic chuch in this country.  this is MY home. MY country. MINE. you don’t get to tell me to behave all “catholic-y”.  
    by the way, he hates women. if you aren’t one, shut the f*** up. if you are, you need to take some pills for psychosis. you can’t tell the difference between real life and fantasy.

  • gypsy cat

    i’m no democrat, but you bet i’m waging a war on religion, especially catholics. you think you can tell the rest of us what is right and wrong?  the religious are living in the iron age. look up in the sky.  do you see a guy with a beard up there? god is just another word for santa claus.

  • gypsy cat

    ah.  i finally see the light. you are an idiot.

  • gypsy cat

    oh, quick, tell me your definition of profiling and racism.  i can’t wait to see this.

  • gypsy cat

    oopsie.  hit that like twice again.  sorry, you are incorrect.  look to your right for closeted gays.

  • gypsy cat

    i hate babies. i hate children. i hate your stupid religion.  i eat babies for lunch.  fetal soup sounds tasty, skippy.

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