Liberal Alan Colmes Attacks Rick Santorum For Bringing Home Dying Baby –
UPDATE: Colmes Calls To Apologize
Posted on January 02 2012 - 1:50 PM - Posted by: Sheya
http://sheya.com/2012/01/02/liberal-alan-colmes-attacks-rick-santorum-for-bringing-home-dying-babyAppearing on Foxnews with Rich Lowery to discuss Rick Santorum’s surge, Alan Colmes suggested that republican primary voters will not vote for Rick Santorum because in 1996 when Santorum’s son Gabriel who was born with Trisomy 18, a serious genetic disorder, Santroum took the baby home just two hours after birth so his other children could see their new brother prior to his inevitable passing.
When attacked by Lowry for the cheap shot, Colmes tried to defend himself by saying this shows Santorum has a lack of character.
Watch the video:
Lack of character? THIS? The guy had a baby who was about to die and wanted to introduce it to his other children. Santorum and his wife felt that this would be the best way for him and his family to deal with this.
Alan’s problem is not that Santorum brought the baby home, his real issue with Santorum’s “lack of character” is that the Santorum’s didn’t abort the baby the easy option Colmes would have picked.
I agree with Alan on one thing. Towards the end Lowery notes that even the ‘dastardly’ people in the media wouldn’t sink so low to which Colmes responds: “I disagree”. Colmes is right on this one, the media and the Democrats would go anywhere when it comes to taking down a principled conservative.
Shame on you Alan.
UPDATED: (Via The Right Scoop)
In an interview with Sean Hannity this evening, Santorum said that Alan Colmes called him to apologize. Here is the video.
ABC News Has more:
At a Pizza Ranch restaurant in Newton, Iowa, a member of the audience asked Santorum to react to a controversial attack leveled by liberal Fox News contributor Alan Colmes, who called the Santorum family’s approach to grieving for their dead baby boy, who lived for only two hours after his birth in 1996, “crazy.”
In a Fox News interview on Monday, Colmes characterized Santorum’s decision to bring the deceased child home an example of “some of the crazy things he’s said and done.”
But in Iowa this afternoon, Santorum explained that it was important for his other children to “know they had a brother.”
Santorum’s wife, Karen, who was at the event and listened to her husband talk about the experience, began to weep.
“It’s just so inappropriate,” she said as tears streamed from her eyes.
Earlier on Monday, Colmes criticized Santorum’s handling of the death of the child, Gabriel Michael Santorum.
“Get a load of some of the crazy things he’s said and done, like taking his two-hour-old baby when it died right after child birth home and played with it so that his other children would know that the child was real,” the liberal pundit said in a Fox News interview.
In a 2005 New York Times Magazine profile by writer Mike Sokolove described how the Santorum family reacted to the tragedy: “Rick and Karen Santorum would not let the morgue take the corpse of their newborn; they slept that night in the hospital with their lifeless baby between them.”
Karen Santorum also writes on the event in her book: “‘Letters to Gabriel: The True Story of Gabriel Michael Santorum.”
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Typical.
