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Here Are Liberal Media’s Top 10 Worst Attacks On This 2016 Presidential Candidate

Thursday, May 28, 2015 18:20

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Rick Santorum has once again thrown his hat into the presidential ring. One might agree that the former senator from Pennsylvania will have his work cut out for him, especially if the liberal media has anything to say about it.

In 2012, after a surprising win in the Iowa Caucus and some other primaries, Santorum went on to come in a distant second to Mitt Romney for the GOP nomination.

A Real Clear Average of polls currently has him running twelfth among the announced and likely candidates that make up the 2016 Republican field, polling at 1.7 percent.

Santorum’s numbers will probably rise now that he has announced; however, if he gains any traction, he is sure to face harsh, even outlandish attacks, from the media, if history is a guide.

Here are some of the attacks the candidate faced in the past, many of which were chronicled by the conservative Media Research Center.

1. In 2012, New York Times executive editor Bill Keller likened Santorum’s Catholic faith to sharia law, saying: “Remember earlier in the campaign when Newt Gingrich was worrying everybody about Sharia law: the Muslims were going to impose Sharia law in America? Sometimes Santorum sounds like he’s creeping up on a Christian version of Sharia law.”

2. In 2008, then-chief Newsweek Washington correspondent Evan Thomas said: “[Sen. Rick] Santorum’s theatrics make me gag. He may be sincere, but the show that he just put on, the clip we just saw of him wringing his hands about babies, make me think that it is theater.

3. This week, Rolling Stone went after Santorum for pointing out one of the unintended consequences of the tens of millions of abortions over the last four decades: a major imbalance in funding Social Security. He stated: “The social security system in my opinion is a flawed design, period. But, having said that, the design would work a lot better if we had stable demographic trends….The reason social security is in big trouble is we don’t have enough workers to support the retirees. Well, a third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion.”

4. Also, Rolling Stone called Santorum’s view that Planned Parenthood should not receive federal funding “vile.” “I can’t imagine any other organization with its roots as poisonous as the roots of Planned Parenthood getting federal funding of any kind. This is an organization that was founded on the eugenics movement, founded on racism. It’s origins are horrific. You can say well, it’s not that anymore. It’s not far from where it was in my opinion in its activities and its motivations,” Santorum said.

5. This week, the Washington Post, in an article entitled Seven Reasons Why Santorum Will Lose, listed number 1 as “Satan” and linked to a Huffington Post article from 2012. In it, the candidate defended remarks he’d made in 2008 regarding America being in a spiritual war. “Satan has his sights on the United States of America!” he said. “Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition…This is a spiritual war…If you were Satan, who would you go after in this day an age” other than the United States? When questioned about it in 2012, he said, “I‘m a person of faith. I believe in good and evil.”

6. In 2011, Matt Lauer, while interviewing Santorum on NBC’s The Today Show, said “some” are calling him ultra-conservative on the social issues, to which the candidate took exception. He responded: “I believe life begins at conception, and I believe marriage is between a man and woman. And I think the law should reflect that…if that makes me ultra conservative, so be it.”

7. In 2011, New York Times Executive Editor Keller likened candidates, including Santorum, who profess a Christian faith to believing in space aliens: “If a candidate for President said he believed that space aliens dwell among us, would that affect your willingness to vote for him?…Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum are all affiliated with fervid subsets of evangelical Christianity, which has raised concerns about their respect for the separation of church and state, not to mention the separation of fact and fiction.” The Times later corrected the piece, noting Santorum is a Catholic, not an evangelical.

8. In 2012, the since-disgraced MSNBC host Martin Bashir labeled Santorum Orwellian. “When we last saw the Republican front-runner Rick Santorum speaking before a crowd yesterday, all we could think of was George Orwell’s novel 1984 about a society dominated by the most extreme form of totalitarianism….In reviewing his book, It Takes a Family, one critic said, ‘Mr. Santorum has one of the finest minds of the 13th century.’ But I’m not so sure. If you listen carefully to Rick Santorum, he sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent III.”

9. In 2012, The Economist’s Zanny Minton Beddoes said the former senator wants to take the United States back to the 13th Century: “The fact that you say that you think he might win the nomination completely terrifies me. I mean, how many decades back, how many centuries back does he want to take us? I read a little bit of his book this week, which is terrifying — logical, but terrifying — and there was a review of it, I think it was the Philadelphia Inquirer when it first came out and it said that Santorum would be a fine mind for the 13th century. And it’s kind of right. It’s logical, it’s natural law, it’s the kind of Catholic absolutist view of the world of several centuries ago.”

10. In 2012, CNN’s Bob Franken said Santorum wants to institute an Iran-like theocracy. “You then have Rick Santorum representing the theocrats and the Republican party, which is also part of the base, theocracy, of course, like perhaps the one in Iran, they would like to see that created here. This is really an appeal to the base instincts in the Republican party, and the base instincts of the Republican base.”

Republican candidates have consistently faced biased media coverage in the past, but many may think the media noise threshold Santorum will have to cross will be greater.

The views expressed in this opinion article are solely those of their author and are not necessarily either shared or endorsed by WesternJournalism.com.

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Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/here-are-liberal-medias-top-10-worst-attacks-on-this-2016-presidential-candidate/