Posted on 01/02/2012 4:01:09 PM PST by mandaladon
National Review Editor Rich Lowry and Liberal commentator Alan Colmes clashed on Fox News Monday when Lowry interjected to rebuke Colmes’ criticism of the way Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum and his wife handled the death of their infant newborn Gabriel, who lived for only two hours in 1996.
“I even think some of the dastardly characters we have in the main stream media are not going to go as low as you just have Alan,” Lowry said at one point.
The heated rhetoric began early on in the segment when Colmes said undecided voters will ultimately not stick with the surging Santorum once people “get a load of some of the crazy things he’s said and done, like taking his two-hour-old baby when it died right after child birth home and played with it so that his other children would know that the child was real.”
The incident Colmes is referring to was described in a 2005 New York Times Magazine profile on Santorum by Michael Sokolove as follows:
“The childbirth in 1996 was a source of terrible heartbreak — the couple were told by doctors early in the pregnancy that the baby Karen was carrying had a fatal defect and would survive only for a short time outside the womb. According to Karen Santorum’s book, ‘Letters to Gabriel: The True Story of Gabriel Michael Santorum,’ she later developed a life-threatening intrauterine infection and a fever that reached nearly 105 degrees. She went into labor when she was 20 weeks pregnant. After resisting at first, she allowed doctors to give her the drug Pitocin to speed the birth. Gabriel lived just two hours.
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I haven’t watched many cable news programs in years and was unaware that Colmes is still on the air. If you were broke down on the road on a cold night, and a car comes by, who do you think is more likely to help? Rick Santorum or Alan Colmes? Santorum 2012.
If FOX doesn’t fire him, Crowley should refuse to appear with him on O’Reilly...let the family chips fall where they may...
“Alan Colmes just sealed the win for Santorum.”
That was my first thought when the cretin opened his mouth and those hateful words spewed out.
Alan Colmes is disgusting
I so agree. I am not a Santorum girl by any measure and I am hopping mad.
So true.... The liberals goal is destruction.
I really don’t think Candy Crowley is Monica Crowley’s sister. For starts, they’re 20 years apart in age; Candy is from MI, Monica from AZ/NJ; Monica’s wiki bio refers to her sister (Jocelyn) who’s married to Colmes. If Candy were her (much) older sister, it would have made reference to that, too.
BTW, Jocelyn also has a Ph.D. and looks quite like Monica. She’s a professor at Rutgers U. in New Jersey. I imagine the Crowley family is at the very least “comfortable” so not real likely she married Colmes for money.
WE may despise him, but some find him charming, witty, funny, etc. Guess it depends on one’s sense of humor. How did Mary Matalin end up with James Carville? Love’s a funny, totally inexplicable thing.
Allan what has become of you!
We laughingly refer to Alan Colmes as Ghoul Boy. Everytime he comes on my fiancee’ just wants to change the channel. He is such a pathetic loser. I cannot believe he went so far as to mock the death of Rick Santorums’s child. That’s low even for Ghoul Boy. You can tell the Dems are getting worried that their boy Barry is going be knocked off the throne.
I will never be able to watch this contemptible person ever again without remembering this cheap, cheap shot. Good for Lowery for calling him on it.
He is either a mildly retarded follower who will believe any appeal to his emotions, since he is incapable of a rational, logical A+B=C thought process.
He is a malignant user and exploiter of the Type A Liberal, and like all sociopaths, incapable of true empathy. He pretends a social awareness he doesn't actually understand.
Neither type is actually worth keeping alive. It is a tribute to Logical Humanity that we don't expose them on a mountainside when they register to vote as a Democrat.
People deal with grief and loss differently. Perhaps the Santorum’s needed some time with this infant in order to start the healing process.
Colmes is a prick 99.9% of the time. It’s disgusting that FoxNews PAYS him to be a prick.
Colmes has always been a cheapshot artist. He’s uglier inside than he is on the outside.
Big Al (the kiddies pal) is a walking advertisement for partial birth abortion.
Fur Shur she’s not going to grieve when Alan is gone.
Colmes and the rest of the MSM have known about this. I was wondering when and who would be the first to bring it up. Colmes has never had an original thought. He dances to the DEMs agenda. This is an attempt to knock down santorum and even out the field so the bottom tier candidates hang in. If no one drops out soon, we all know that means romney wins. I hope colmes gets canned over this. But seeing that fox wants Romney too I don’t think that will happen.
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