Posted on 01/02/2012 8:16:51 PM PST by tobyhill
Liberal talk show host Alan Colmes sunk to new a new low when he said on Fox News that former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum took his deceased baby home to 'play with it.'
Noting that the GOP has "speed-dated" every other candidate, Colmes said voters should "get a load" of what he called the "crazy things" Santorum has said and done.
"Like taking his two-hour old baby who died right after childbirth home and played with it for a couple hours so his other children would know it was real, I mean..."
At this point, Fox News contributor Rich Lowry tore into Colmes, calling his statement a "cheap shot."
Lowry lambasted Colmes for "mocking" the death of Santorum's child and said it was beneath the liberal talker, sometimes known as "Skeletor" among some conservatives
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you are making your remarks worst with each new post....your a long time poster, are you a Liberal just disguised as a Freeper or what??? nite son...
They do have a severly handicapped child still living as you say. God bless these parents, who uphold every good and worthy virtue by caring for their children. Their love is an inspiration for all, that is truly Agape Love.
No telling what Colmes would say about this child still living.
Spunky, the Santorums had another baby, Gabriel Michael, who died shortly after birth. They took him home to say goodbye and give their other children an opportunity to see their little brother and celebrate his short life. Alan Colmes interpreted that as “playing” with him for hours. That’s what this thread is about.
There have been two Santorum babies mentioned in this thread. The first was a son - Gabriel - who died shortly after his birth, and whose funeral was held in the family home. The second was a baby girl - born with serious health problems, but who - because of her parents’ care - has survived, and is now 3 1/2 years old.
Colmes viciousness was in relation to the baby son who had died.
Yup. It’s up to Colmes...we can only pray for him, and hope.
Judging by the Trig Palin comments from the left, I think we have a good idea. Unfortunately.
Just a FWIW...
Back in the late 80s I worked as a “Mental Hygene Therapy Aide” in a state institution with the profoundly retarded (sub-20 IQ as the scale went at the time). The number of parents that would visit their children in an institution with several hundred ‘clients’ could be counted on one hand. Literally.
Retarded children are throw away to all but the most compassionate of people/parents. And I assure you that my liberal co-workers at the time thought them less than human, to put it mildly. Look up “Willowbrook”. It’s the story that catapulted Geraldo Rivera to fame. Our facility got a lot of those people. Staff and ‘client’ alike.
Willowbrook was a real life horror story that the producers of “Saw” and “Hostile” could never hope to match. And that’s no exaggeration.
FTR, I'm a proud Mom of 3, one of which spent 12 days in the NICU. Lost two children, both around the end of my first trimester. I consider all my children incredible blessings from God.
But even my husband and I have referred to them in funny terms on occasion; tricycle motors, rug rats, bun in the oven, etc.
I also agree with a number of posters on this thread. It was a purely personal matter, there was nothing "bizarre" about wanting spend time with your child, even after they pass, or for wanting the other children in the family to have the opportunity to say good-bye, as well. No one thought my relative was crazy when she kissed her deceased son. No one thought my Grandmother was crazy when she couldn't leave my Grandfather's casket.
People forget two important things: they loved that baby from the moment they discovered they were pregnant; it's not easy letting go of someone you have loved for almost a year. Finally, that baby got to view their loving actions from Heaven.
I recently watched the first filmed version of “A Christmans Carol.” The actors who played Bob Cratchit did an incredibly good job. At the end of the Christmas future part, “BOB” comes home tonthe family after looking where “Tiny Tim” is to be buried. He greets the family, and their console him, then cheered up he goes up to the bedroom, where we see the dead child lying in the bed, and he grieves over him. Scrooge, looking on with Death, is profoundly moved, and I must say that I was also. But this is how the dead once were treated, are still treated in Muslim countries, where the bodies were was by the family, and wrapped in a shroud before burial, and quickly buried. We try to airbrush death, from the scene, and now no longer even bury our dead, but put them into an oven, to be consumed by the flames.
My bad. I hadn’t realized the Santorums had another child who passed shortly after birth. I had listened to him in that forum and just assumed that was the child being talked about as he didn’t mention the loss of one and I wondered why know one knew she wasn’t dead.
The fall after my dad’s death, I was sleeping, and I seemed to wake to find him sitting in a chair across the room. We had a conversation and then, after awhile, I suddenly thought, but he is dead. I then woke to find the chair empty. But his presence had seemed so real.
When Alan Colmes was born, they threw away the baby, and kept the afterbirth.
Thank you! LMBO!!
Thanks for posting santorum’s response. Colmes should be fired NOW. What Imus said was not half as cruel.
Glad to see you around, my former Tarzana neighbor.
Thanks for the information. Like I said to some other Freepers I hadn’t realized there was another child. I had seen him in that forum talking about the girl who was not expected to live and he didn’t mention having lost one, so I just assumed that was the child being talked about and wondering why no one seemed to know she hadn’t died.
Sometimes long passed relatives turn up in dreams; it doesn’t necessarily mean any spiritual presence happened, it could have been just another subject of a dream, a kind of brain animated “what-if.” I have sometimes dreamed that a relative passed away had never done so, and spoken with them as though that “revised history” was the factual state of affairs. Sometimes with even more pronounced revisions, such as a relative who died with Alzheimer’s never having lost her mind at all. I never asked any what life beyond the grave was like; that never seemed plausible in the dream.
Sometimes people undergo unusual stress around the holidays, which might put them at higher risk of fatal illness around that time, but having three deaths on January 6 must seem a big uncanny.
big uncanny => bit uncanny
I also know a NICU nurse. A great woman. I knew nothing about Mrs Santorum Except that she’s lost a child, is raising a child with differences (whom they were told would not survive), and now that she is a NICU nurse. I’m starting to really like her already.
It sure would be nice to have this good Catholic woman with all her respect for life and children as our first lady instead of moochelle or the Mistress under the Speaker’s Desk.
Jan. 6 is also Epiphany, the historical church celebration of the visit of the Magi to the infant Jesus, who by that time was in a house and out of the manger. (It is the day after the “12 days of Christmas.”)
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