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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Colmes ought to be bitch slapped for that one.
He’s a douche and he looks like a burn victim. I have no use for him at all.
What an insult to burn victims
and for that matter, to douches!
And even if she is, it still suggests a lack of self-respect that she settled for him. Again, unless money was an issue.
I'm assuming Alan made north of 30,000 a year when he had a full time gig at Fox News.
Alan Colmes is not a nice person, in spite of all the disclaimers by people that “know” him.
He’s right up there with Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Bill Maher for “niceness”.
Go pound sand, you evil SOB Colmes!
I wish FOX would fire his ugly a**, I cant stand the sight of that TURD.
That would be Monica Crowley’s sister.
As said in the other post Colmes is a jack a$$.
Alan Colmes, like most abortion loving liberals, can’t stand the fact that they see a child being born into this world. Santorum went through a horrible ordeal, one I hope even Colmes never has to go through. Alan Colmes has always been a ignorant punk, he also smeared Sarah Palin saying she caused her son Trigg to get Down’s Syndrome. He is a despicable sack of crap
I simply don’t believe that. Candy Crowley cannot be a sister to the other two.
Perhaps someone with refined writing skills could offer a template of a letter that others could follow that would allow us to send Fox News our sentiments.
Maybe she’s Monica’s mother. I forget. They’re related somehow.
...”Alan Colmes/Liberals might be creeped out by treating a dead baby with respect, but they sure are not creeped out when a baby’s head is bashed with a hook and brains are sucked out by a vacuum cleaner.”....
Now that’s calling it what it is...and let’s add that they also cut them to pieces while still in the womb!...and we dare call other countries barbarians!
One other observation is Alan Colmes body language is clearly revealin throughout the video...what we see there is a man stating things contrary to what he knows otherwise and trying to re-establish a degree of credibility when he knows he’s lost it all.
Colmes HAS to be fired after this..
I wish I would've thought of this.
I'm just glad somebody did. Well done.
I wish I would've thought of this.
I'm just glad somebody did. Well done.
You’re right.
I watched the exchange on Faux this morning.
Alan Colmes is not a nice person. He’s evil and mean.
He tries to hide his rage and hatred behind that goofy full toothed smirk of his, which some might call a smile.
Kids are off limits....unless they’re dead, Alan?
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