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Santorum Fires Back at CBS's 'Gotcha'; Raises Rev. Wright Double Standard
newsbusters ^ | 2/16/2012 | By Matthew Balan

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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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruptmedia; enemedia; mediabias; ricksantorum; santorum
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To: tobyhill

Thank You for the post. That was a breath of fresh air.


21 posted on 02/17/2012 3:15:28 PM PST by MtnMan101 (THE PROBLEM WITH SOCIALISUM IS THAT YOU EVENTUALLY RUN OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY)
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To: All
Just remember when Newt's polls skyrocketed was when he took on the Lame Stream Media and only fell when he let up. People want to see someone act like a winner and take on these communist sleazeballs.
22 posted on 02/17/2012 3:20:05 PM PST by tobyhill
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To: TomGuy
"Rose was chatting with Brokaw the weekend before the 2008 election..."

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!!!!!!

23 posted on 02/17/2012 3:20:30 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: tobyhill

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.


24 posted on 02/17/2012 3:20:56 PM PST by RatRipper (I'll ride a turtle to work every day before I buy anything from Government Motors.)
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To: Lexinom

“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?


25 posted on 02/17/2012 3:23:14 PM PST by sergeantdave
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To: tobyhill

Nicely done. For openers....


26 posted on 02/17/2012 3:43:59 PM PST by SueRae (I can see November from my HOUSE!!!!!!!! 11.06.2012, the Tower of Sauron falls,)
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To: bigbob
There IS NO DEBATE over contraception

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.

27 posted on 02/17/2012 3:44:10 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: tobyhill
Just got back from voting early for Santorum because of this. Have been waiting for this kind of response from him!
28 posted on 02/17/2012 3:45:23 PM PST by southernerwithanattitude
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To: tobyhill

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.


29 posted on 02/17/2012 3:47:32 PM PST by doc
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To: RatRipper
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.

Excellent point! Get it out on the airwaves:-)

30 posted on 02/17/2012 4:06:43 PM PST by Kenny (I)
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To: tobyhill

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.”


31 posted on 02/17/2012 4:10:29 PM PST by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: tobyhill

Good post. Nice to hear he is fighting back.


32 posted on 02/17/2012 4:32:46 PM PST by FresnoRobert (When born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, it's reversed.)
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To: RatRipper

Excellent post, great points.


33 posted on 02/17/2012 5:33:08 PM PST by JSteff ((((It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.))))
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To: Lauren BaRecall

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.


34 posted on 02/17/2012 6:18:27 PM PST by CH3CN (A stitch in time is worth two in the bush.)
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To: tobyhill

Is this the election year version of being Rickrolled?


35 posted on 02/17/2012 6:52:29 PM PST by Petruchio (I Think . . . Therefor I FReep.)
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To: CH3CN

The way I heard it way back when was.....a St. Joseph aspirin held tightly between the knees..


36 posted on 02/17/2012 7:07:16 PM PST by goat granny
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To: sergeantdave
When you see these Goebbel’s scum, call them nazis and traitors

Look: Call the media nazis and traitors and you become the story, not the media, not obama. Really suicidal, stupid dea.

37 posted on 02/17/2012 7:31:43 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

“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.”


38 posted on 02/17/2012 8:00:55 PM PST by sergeantdave
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