Mister D
01-10-2012, 01:40 PM
Wow I didn't hear about this.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/287648/leftism-makes-you-meaner-dennis-prager
SNIP
In 1996, Karen Santorum gave birth to a premature baby boy who died two hours later. After spending the night in the hospital with their baby son between them, the grieving parents brought the lifeless infant home for a brief period because, Santorum explained, it was important to them for their other children to “know they had a brother.” The Santorums didn’t want Gabriel Michael Santorum to be an abstraction to his siblings.
First, Alan Colmes on Fox News: “Once [voters] get a load of some of the crazy things he’s said and done, like taking his two-hour-old baby who died right after childbirth home and played with it for a couple of hours so his other children would know that the child was real . . . ”
Colmes was then interrupted by Rich Lowry: “You are mocking him. They lost a child, Alan. That’s very serious and it’s not something you should be mocking on national TV.”
Colmes’s response: “I’m not mocking the losing of the child. But what I’m saying is I think it shows a certain unusual attitude toward taking a two-hour-baby home who died to play with his other children.”
In addition to engaging in a cheap and mean shot, Colmes simply made up the notion that the Santorums had brought the baby home for their other children “to play with.”
The next day, Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize–winning left-wing columnist for the Washington Post, said on MSNBC that Santorum is “not a little weird. He’s really weird. Some of his positions he’s taken are just so weird that I think some Republicans are going to be off-put. Not everybody is going to be down, for example, with the story of how he and his wife handled the stillborn child whose body they took home to kind of sleep with and introduce to the rest of the family. It’s a very weird story.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/287648/leftism-makes-you-meaner-dennis-prager
SNIP
In 1996, Karen Santorum gave birth to a premature baby boy who died two hours later. After spending the night in the hospital with their baby son between them, the grieving parents brought the lifeless infant home for a brief period because, Santorum explained, it was important to them for their other children to “know they had a brother.” The Santorums didn’t want Gabriel Michael Santorum to be an abstraction to his siblings.
First, Alan Colmes on Fox News: “Once [voters] get a load of some of the crazy things he’s said and done, like taking his two-hour-old baby who died right after childbirth home and played with it for a couple of hours so his other children would know that the child was real . . . ”
Colmes was then interrupted by Rich Lowry: “You are mocking him. They lost a child, Alan. That’s very serious and it’s not something you should be mocking on national TV.”
Colmes’s response: “I’m not mocking the losing of the child. But what I’m saying is I think it shows a certain unusual attitude toward taking a two-hour-baby home who died to play with his other children.”
In addition to engaging in a cheap and mean shot, Colmes simply made up the notion that the Santorums had brought the baby home for their other children “to play with.”
The next day, Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize–winning left-wing columnist for the Washington Post, said on MSNBC that Santorum is “not a little weird. He’s really weird. Some of his positions he’s taken are just so weird that I think some Republicans are going to be off-put. Not everybody is going to be down, for example, with the story of how he and his wife handled the stillborn child whose body they took home to kind of sleep with and introduce to the rest of the family. It’s a very weird story.”