The mainstream media have done a terrible job moderating the GOP debates this election season. Here are a few examples of their silly questions. . . .
Wolf Blitzer: “I’d like to ask each of these gentlemen why they think their wife would make a great First Lady.”
Diane Sawyer: “What’s one thing you’d do immediately to create jobs, tell us how many you’d create. . . . We want a real number.”
John King: “[Your ex-wife] says you asked her [for] an open marriage. Would you like to take some time to respond to that?”
George Stephanopoulos: “Governor Romney, do you think states have the right to ban contraception?”
Juan Williams: “Speaker Gingrich, you recently said black Americans should demand jobs not food stamps. . . . [Isn't this insulting] to black Americans?”
Chris Wallace: “How do you [Gingrich] respond to people who say that your campaign has been a mess so far?”
Rick Santorum has of late been under heavy attack from the left. Scroll forward for a sample of anti-Santorum invective from the likes of Bill Maher, James Carville, and more. . . .
Former Senator Kerrey: “Santorum, that’s Latin for ‘a******.’”
Martin Bashir: Santorum “sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent III.”
The Philadelphia Inquirer: “Mr. Santorum has one of the finest minds of the 13th century.”
Erin Gloria Ryan: “Rick Santorum pines for the good ol’ days of unsafe back-alley abortions.”
Bill Maher: Santorum “believes life begins at erection.”
Don Imus: “He’s just an evil person . . . a blood-sucking criminal lobbyist.”
James Carville: Santorum’s a “world-class hypocrite.”
Ben Adler: Santorum is “an uptight prig” whose “positions on social issues are as much about repressing women and reversing the gains of the women’s movement as they are [pro-life].”
Paul Krugman: “Conspiracy-theorizing is hardly unique to Mr. Santorum, but that’s the point: Tinfoil hats have become a common, if not mandatory, G.O.P. fashion accessory.”
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