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Santorum Turns Tables on Scarborough Suggestion To Go Kumbaya on American Muslims

By Mark Finkelstein | December 21, 2015, 9:17 AM EST

It's rare when a politician says something surprising, or doesn't succumb to a feel-good suggestion. Which made Rick Santorum's response to Joe Scarborough this morning doubly remarkable. On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough had teed Sa ...

Matthews: Mass Shootings Don't Happen in Europe; When Reminded of Paris, Says That Was Terrorists, Not 'Locals'

By Ken Shepherd | December 2, 2015, 12:01 PM EST

In an interview with GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum on the December 1 edition of Hardball, MSNBC's Chris Matthews insisted that mass shootings don't happen "all over Europe." When an incredulous Santorum reminded Matthews about ...

Wrong Again, Whoopi: Santorum Swats Away Her Abortion Talking Points

By Scott Whitlock | October 1, 2015, 8:50 AM EDT

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Wednesday knocked down Whoopi Goldberg’s pro-abortion talking points. Naturally, the whole View segment was dominated by social issues questions. Goldberg grilled, “How will you say to your constituents w ...

CNN's Camerota Badgers Rick Santorum Over His Support For Kim Davis

By Matthew Balan | September 14, 2015, 1:29 PM EDT

On Monday's New Day, CNN's Alisyn Camerota hounded Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, after he suggested that Kim Davis should "follow her conscience" in refusing to sign marriage licenses for same-sex couples. Camerota u ...

Rick Santorum en la mira de MundoFox

By Yuri Perez | July 23, 2015, 8:22 PM EDT

La postura del precandidato presidencial Rick Santorum en favor de los trabajadores estadounidenses le ha valido un ataque frontal en MundoFox. Tras el anuncio de campaña de Santorum, MundoFox dedicó un segmento completo de su noticiero nacional a un anál ...

Rick Santorum in the Crosshairs of MundoFox

By Yuri Perez | July 23, 2015, 7:09 PM EDT

Presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s stand in favor of the American worker has earned him a direct attack on MundoFox. Following Santorum’s recent campaign announcement, MundoFox dedicated a full segment of its national newscast to an analysis of Santor ...

CNN's Cuomo Rips Santorum on 'Tolerance:' 'Why Aren't You More Like Your Pope?'

By Matthew Balan | July 15, 2015, 8:57 AM EDT

CNN's Chris Cuomo tried to shame Rick Santorum on Tuesday's New Day over his opposition to same-sex marriage. Cuomo indicated that Santorum wasn't in line with Pope Francis on LGBT issues: " Your Pope says tolerance is the message of C ...

Larry Wilmore Deceived Audience with Edited Quotes to Smear FNC and Santorum on Charleston Massacre

By Brad Wilmouth | July 16, 2015, 11:37 AM EDT

On his The Nightly Show on Comedy Central, in the aftermath of the Charleston church massacre, host Larry Wilmore tried to deceive his audience into believing that Fox News hosts as well as former Senator Rick Santorum had been clinging to the possibility ...

'Hardball' Host Chris Matthews Treats 'Theocrat' Santorum to Surprisingly Civil Interview

By Ken Shepherd | July 6, 2015, 8:53 PM EDT

Back in the 2012 Republican presidential primary race, Chris Matthews slammed former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) as a "theocrat" and a "Cro-Magnon" man. On tonight's Hardball program, however, the MSNBC host was actually cordial an ...

Bozell & Graham Column: The Media, The Court, and the Slippery Sex Slope

By Brent Bozell and Tim Graham | June 30, 2015, 10:49 PM EDT

Back in 2003, the Associated Press gave serious aid and comfort to a vicious campaign against Sen. Rick Santorum over an interview he granted them dealing with the gay-rights issue. AP spent a week promoting calls to remove Santorum from the Senate GOP le ...

Bloomberg, MSNBC Bash Jeb Bush, Rick Santorum for Going Against Pope on Climate Change

By Curtis Houck | June 17, 2015, 9:00 PM EDT

The media’s tendency to use the Pope to criticize Republican candidates and officials was on display Wednesday afternoon as MSNBC’s Live with Thomas Roberts and Bloomberg’s With All Due Respect took shots at the 2016 GOP presidential field and, specifical ...

CBS: GOP 'Long Shot' Candidates Are After 'Lucrative TV Deals'

By Scott Whitlock | June 16, 2015, 11:26 AM EDT

According to CBS on Tuesday, Republicans such as Rick Santorum and Ben Carson are "long shot" candidates running for president to make money or score a television deal on Fox. Reporter Julianna Goldman included clips of six GOP contenders, but n ...

CNN's Burnett Presses Santorum About Kirk's 'Ho' Quip, Caitlyn Jenner

By Ken Shepherd | June 12, 2015, 4:04 PM EDT

Erin Burnett interviewed Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum in a taped sit-down chat earlier today. But rather than sticking purely to substantial issues, the CNN anchor also posed two rather trivial queries, one about a hot microphone comment ...

Washington Post and NY Times Hype How Fictional Villain Polls Better Than GOP Candidates

By Matthew Balan | June 10, 2015, 9:37 AM EDT

The editorial page editors at the New York Times posted a Tuesday item on their blog that shamelessly played up how the main villain from the Harry Potter book series, Voldemort, has a "higher rating than six Republicans, including Jeb Bush." Th ...

AP's Will Weissert: Perry's Reference to God-Given Rights Is 'A Nod to the Tea Party'

By Tom Blumer | June 6, 2015, 12:16 AM EDT

On Thursday, the Associated Press's Will Weissert demonstrated that the ignorance of our nation's founding documents exhibited by Meredith Shiner at Yahoo Politics in March is not isolated to her. Readers may recall that Shiner, reacting to Ted ...