Posted on 02/17/2012 2:42:51 PM PST by tobyhill
On Friday's CBS This Morning, Rick Santorum pushed back against Charlie Rose's interrogation about supporter Foster Friess's recent "bad off-color joke" on contraception, all but name-dropping former Obama pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright as an example of the media's double standard on playing "gotcha" politics with Republicans, but not Democrats.
Rose initially countered, "This is not gotcha; what this is, is trying to understand exactly what Rick Santorum stands for, and what he might say or do as president." But the GOP presidential candidate wasn't having any of it: "You don't do this with President Obama...he sat in a church for 20 years, and [you] defended him- that, oh, he can't possibly believe what he listened to for 20 years. It's a double standard...and I'm going to call you on it"
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Thank You for the post. That was a breath of fresh air.
The campaigns should keep dossiers on every major media figures significant and questionable past statements, ommissions etc. and the candidate should be fully briefed before they go on the air in order to confront them. I can't believe this isn't done, but you'd never know it from most interviews.
That said...KEEP IT UP RICK!!!!!!
Just once I would like some Republican to tell a member of the MSM on camera that during the 2008 election, the media gave us FAR MORE information on Sarah Palin’s pregnant teenage daughter than they provided about Barack Obama’s background.
“Employ the reductio ad absurdum - a rhetorical device for reducing one’s opponent’s position to absurdity”
I’m open to suggestions. What do you have in mind?
Nicely done. For openers....
Well, there WAS no debate over contraception...until a certain religous zealot announced that "as president I'm going to talk about it." "Contraceptives are not OK."
A stupid rookie unforced error that we will all pay for until November and maybe thereafter.
Hey Rick don’t stop there. Ask the media if they’ve pressed Obama on his past cocaine use and have they interviewed his supplier of the drug.
Excellent point! Get it out on the airwaves:-)
Great Post—(even muted Levin to hear this).
Good for Rick! The leftist media is America’s worst enemy.
We protested CNN a couple of years ago-
I carried an ironic sign: “You won’t see THIS on CNN.”
Good post. Nice to hear he is fighting back.
Excellent post, great points.
My mother told me about “the pill” way back in the 70’s. Only she said I could use an aspirin, Tums, vitamin, or an M&M, just keep it firmly between the knees. It’s an old joke. Notice the word, JOKE? Dems and our sweet women’s libbers don’t know a joke when they hear one. I thought it was funny when my prim and proper mother told me, and it’s funny now and like you said, True. Good grief dems!! No sense of humour.
Is this the election year version of being Rickrolled?
The way I heard it way back when was.....a St. Joseph aspirin held tightly between the knees..
Look: Call the media nazis and traitors and you become the story, not the media, not obama. Really suicidal, stupid dea.
“Look: Call the media nazis and traitors and you become the story, not the media, not obama. Really suicidal, stupid dea.”
I know how to deal with left-wing media scum. Cover your ears if you find you find my comments suicidal and “stupid.”
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