Santorum says media helps terrorists

[Ian David]

Santorum says media helps terrorists

Rick Santorum recently gave an interview to Salena Zito of the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, in which he made the following remarks accusing the American media of aiding terrorists by covering deaths in Iraq.

They felt it was their obligation to go out every day and report as they do. And they report death- as I say, "one side of the story." I understand why they do it, and I am not saying that they don't have to do it.

But understand, by doing so, all you do is accomplish exactly what the terrorists want you to do, which is to weary the American public of this war -- and eventually cause us to stop fighting it. That is the end result of what we are doing.

I have always said that if World War II was covered like this war, I really, very seriously doubt that we would have ever won that war. Certainly, we might have been willing, when the losses got so high, to negotiate a compromise or negotiate some sort of surrender. The death that went on -- I always remind people that we lost more people in a couple of hours on D-Day that we have in the entire war (in Iraq).

The amount of death and destruction that occurred in the previous wars, under the current media coverage, would not have tolerated by the American public.

The bottom line is, the media -- and I am not saying that they are intending to do this -- but simply by what they are doing, without question, it is aiding the terrorists and their objective.

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[villager]

1. yes, the media *has* enabled the Republicans...

n/t

[blm]

2. Corporate media helped BushInc every step of the way since 1999 - so, yeah - Ricky's right

Corporate media DOES help those who REALLY have been instrumental to the buildup of terrorism for the last 4 decades.

[greenbriar]

3. isn't he supposed to be gone?

like a bad penny

[JI7]

4. can someone post pics of his sad crying face on the night he was defeated

[KansDem]

9. I did find this one...

But it's not the one you want...

[rodeodance]

5. reporting deaths ="weary the American public of this war --" uumm..I do

not grew weary----just angry!

the slimeball is still around huh?

[CJCRANE]

6. Why not report the good news

of all the people who come back to life because of this war!


Darn librul media.

[silverweb]

7. Yeah, Ricky, that's it!

Defend democracy by banning a free press!

What a fucking nut job.

:eyes:

[GreenTea]

8. Fox news loves terrorist...translates into ratings = bucks!

Lets shut down Fox "news" Rick!

[Jack Rabbit]

10. Rick who?

:boring:

[renaissanceguy]

23. I think Ricky needs some

man-on-dog sex. He'll have a lot of time, now that he's out of a job.


http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues/479862

[NoPasaran]

11. Santorum, Santorum, where have I heard that name before?

Didn't he used to be famous or something? Time he gets used to life as a nobody.

[zulchzulu]

12. Go boink a dog, Ricky

By saying that the media is helping the terrorists, Ricky the Loser is actually helping the terrorists...they'd love us to get rid of our freedom of speech as well as free ideas in the media.

[bumblebee1]

14. Do you hate dogs, zulchzulu?

Please don't wish Sanscrotum on any dog, even a pit bull.

[Virginia Dare]

13. Stuck on stupid, that one is...n/t

[ellie]

15. and ellie says,

"Don't let the door hit you on the way out, you crazy fuckhead."

[kentuck]

16. Only one solution...

Don't invade other countries and lie about it and start any war of choices, asshole!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

17. it was not tolerated by the American public

He's right about that -- in Vietnam the wounded and blood and gore were on the nightly news. This eventually turned Americans against the Vietnam War, even though it took many years.

Now the media has learned to NOT report the wounded and deaths, because of the truthful reporting on Vietnam. I'm old enough to remember that.

[rep the dems]

18. My god, Rick, are you STILL talking?

You're done!!!

[coda]

19. " President Roosevelt begs Nazi holdouts to 'Bring it on!' "

- Less than four months after achieving a blistering two week smackdown of a Germany with almost zero industrial capacity and weakened by 15 years of sanctions and bombings, with no autonomy over its southern and northern areas for more than a decade, whose government insitutions are non-existant and its armed services in shreds and mass surrender, and a leader who is hiding in a bunker somewhere, President Roosevlet begged any and all remaining Nazi holdouts to "Bring it on!".

[sendero]

20. Seems to me..

... they spend a lot more time trying to help Republicans.

I'm so happy that that moron lost his job. Sometimes, there is justice.

[Lugnut]

21. I can't believe he doesn't get it

Nobody cares what he thinks. Why is he still talking?

[gratuitous]

22. Unelected uninformed and unimportant

Wotta maroon. "If World War II was covered like this war," Ricky, there might not have been the zillion subsequent wars (my obligatory slam against fuckheads who romanticize armed conflict). Of course, in World War II, the Allies were making measureable, verifiable progress toward a stated objective: Driving the Axis occupiers out of the countries they had conquered and defeating them. What in hell are we doing in Iraq? Or Afghanistan? What is our objective? How do we measure our progress toward those objectives? Why should the American public "tolerate" senseless death and destruction?

Tell you what, Mr. Santorum: Why don't you go over to Iraq and show us all how a brave, strong man can win Iraq single-handedly?