Posted on 01/29/2016 5:17:22 AM PST by xzins
DES MOINES, Iowa - Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, the winner of the 2012 GOP caucuses, told Breitbart News in the spin room after the undercard Fox News Channel debate that he's pleased the Fox News Channel is being exposed for being biased in favor of establishment GOP candidates for president.
Specifically, Santorum ripped not just Megyn Kelly and Bill O'Reilly for refusing to put him on their shows even once since he launched his 2016 presidential campaign in May.
Santorum makes the point that it's fairly outrageous Kelly, O'Reilly, and others have blacked out his candidacy, as he didn't just win the 2012 Iowa caucuses; he went on to win 10 additional states afterwards. Santorum's comments came before he went over to billionaire and GOP frontrunner Donald Trump's veterans benefit across town. Trump pulled out of the debate and instead hosted a Santorum and Mike Huckabee-attended veterans benefit because of Fox News's bias.
"I wish all the networks would receive the same criticism that Fox is getting right now, but look, you're looking at a guy who announced on the last week of May and has not been invited back on Fox and Friends, has never had an interview on Megyn Kelly, has never had an interview with Bill O'Reilly," Santorum said. "They won't put me on the show. And this is a guy that won the Iowa caucuses four years ago, and when you look at their biggest primetime shows, we haven't had access to their shows."
Santorum did thank Martha MacCallum and Bill Hemmer, Greta Van Susteren, and Sean Hannity for having him on their shows. But he said the only reason that happens is because each of them are "friends," and he wouldn't even be on those programs if it were up to the network bosses..
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He makes a good point. Why would the winner of the last Iowa caucus and the 2nd place to Romney be cut out of exposure?
He’s not an establishment favorite.
I’m no Trump fan by any stretch but if fox wanted DT so bad they shoulda replaced megan Kelly as moderator, that MIGHT HAVE brought DT back, but I don’t blame him, it sure looked like fox was preparing the long knives for him.
Those knives were used on Cruz. Fox was not about to waste them.
Romney would have been a lot better than what we have now and he was early talking about protecting our borders.
Hahahahaha!
No he’s not an Establishment favorite and the gays hate him because he dares champion the nuclear family.
He called Trump asking to attend his Veterans event, as did Huckabee, and what did they do, they used the charity to campaign for themselves.
Beyond despicable.
fox is establishment through and through, and last night was going to be an ambush on trump,. Well that did not work so they went after Cruz in order to help Rubio and Bush.
Kelly is not worth watching, nor is FOX, .
Why anyone on here watches Kelly is beyond me as all you do is help her ratings and adds to her inflated slutty ego.
Martha McCallum is not his “friend”
She tried to pull a Megyn- Lite by attacking his pro life commitment!
Er, what? Are there still Mittens fanboys in the FR?
The candidates used their celebrity to raise $6 million for vets in an event planned only 24 hours earlier
I would call that win-win
Yes, Fox News waves a lot of flags, has daily news about our veterans and plays a lot of country music before and after commercial breaks.
Smoke and mirrors.
Fox News is ran by the very liberal James Murdoch (son of conservative Rupert Murdoch). The Saudi government owns a significant part of Fox News.
If you want real conservative news and analysis, try to get OANN (One America News Network). Verizon subscribers get it.
In the last 24 hours it looks like there is a new favorite for Trump VP. Rick Samtorum
game is stacked against Cruz too.
whatever he said about romney, he is right about fox.
they HATE trump and Cruz and it was SO SO obvious cruz was gonna take it on the chin from the tramp.
she got her orders from murdoch after getting out of his hotel room and those orders are to get a rino or even a dem elected before either of those two.
In the last 24 hours it looks like there is a new favorite for Trump VP. Rick Santorum
That’s sort of overlooking reality.
Everyone there was there to support vets and to support their campaigns or their preferred candidate.
There are some people here who don't want to admit that they are the reason we now have Obamacare and a muslim in the White House.
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