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(Liberal) Alan Colmes: Rick Santorum took dead baby home to 'play with it'
Examiner ^ | 1/2/2012 | Joe Newby,

Posted on 01/02/2012 8:16:51 PM PST by tobyhill

Liberal talk show host Alan Colmes sunk to new a new low when he said on Fox News that former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum took his deceased baby home to 'play with it.'

Noting that the GOP has "speed-dated" every other candidate, Colmes said voters should "get a load" of what he called the "crazy things" Santorum has said and done.

"Like taking his two-hour old baby who died right after childbirth home and played with it for a couple hours so his other children would know it was real, I mean..."

At this point, Fox News contributor Rich Lowry tore into Colmes, calling his statement a "cheap shot."

Lowry lambasted Colmes for "mocking" the death of Santorum's child and said it was beneath the liberal talker, sometimes known as "Skeletor" among some conservatives

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alancolmes; appallingdems; celebrityworship; cluckfest; creepy; foxnews; iowa; partisanmediashills; pennsylvania; ricksantorum
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To: Mariner
My point is that the baby was dead.

Wow, you're cold.

The real point is the baby was theirs and their grief was theirs; therefore, it's none of anyone's business how they dealt with their grief, or helped their family deal with the grief.

81 posted on 01/02/2012 8:53:49 PM PST by madison10
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To: tobyhill

I don’t understand what Santorum did, but I didn’t lose a child... Colmes is despicable for saying such a thing, though.


82 posted on 01/02/2012 8:53:56 PM PST by PghBaldy (War Powers Res: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/warpower.asp)
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To: o-n-money

Not that that should stop them from trying!


83 posted on 01/02/2012 8:53:56 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: Mariner

Yes the baby is dead, but people get attached to them, and love them before they are born, alot of times they have names by then. It’s so much more then just a dead baby.


84 posted on 01/02/2012 8:54:05 PM PST by yank in the UK ( A liberal mocking Christianity. I asked "why don't you mock Islam?" he replied "Muslims are violent)
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To: tobyhill
IS. IT. TRUE. OR. NOT. AND DOCUMENT IT, PLEASE.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

85 posted on 01/02/2012 8:54:31 PM PST by Viking2002 (My regular avatar has resumed from the holiday festivities, But is not yet sober. And it's armed.)
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To: coloradomomba

You tell him!


86 posted on 01/02/2012 8:56:01 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: ncalburt

Contact the Admin, newbie.


87 posted on 01/02/2012 8:56:10 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: tbw2

The part about women treating baby dolls as real babies maybe has more meaning than we can realize. It’s possible that these women have lost children when they were small, or the worst case scenario, they may have had abortions and are trying to relive having a live child. I know a woman whose grown child had died two years earlier suddenly and she wanted to have a baby doll, one of the ones that looks like a real baby. And my aunt lost 3 grown children from juvenile diabetes, and she got a baby doll. I don’t think she plays with it, but it must be some sort of comfort to have the doll substitutes.


88 posted on 01/02/2012 8:56:25 PM PST by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
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To: tobyhill
A couple that loses a child right after birth deserves our sympathy and support. How the family deals with their tragedy not our concern.

Only a liberal would ridicule a family that lost a newborn child because of the way they deal with grief.

Alan Colmes is known for his mean spirited cheap shots against conservatives. Just like the rest of the MSM.

The only question is why FOX chooses to keep Colmes on the payroll after this.

89 posted on 01/02/2012 8:56:56 PM PST by detective
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To: madison10
"The real point is the baby was theirs and their grief was theirs; therefore, it's none of anyone's business how they dealt with their grief, or helped their family deal with the grief. "

Except that nobody would have known about it if Rick Santorum had not told them.

He made it a public issue.

Why?

90 posted on 01/02/2012 8:57:56 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: tobyhill
Colmes is the deciding factor for me to cancel my cable, I still have a year contract, but after that it is gone. No more FOX news for me.

I could not stomach Colmes when he was with Hannity, but now he is more disgusting than Carville was.

In every discussion, Colmes is on the most evil depraved side of every issue, and he takes pride in that with that smirky grin. The devils spawn, and FOX failed.

91 posted on 01/02/2012 8:58:55 PM PST by annieokie
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To: Mariner

Who knows? Could be an experiment to see how much human garbage would pop up.


92 posted on 01/02/2012 8:59:19 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Chief Druid of Trollhenge: Cult of Palin)
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To: tobyhill

Let’s not forget the other liberals on FNC: Shep Smith, Greg Jarrod, Clayton Morris, Leis Wiehl (sp?), Margaret Hoover, maybe Bill Hemmer and a half dozen or so others.

I know that the producers and writers often project the liberal views that some of the “readers” have to say on TV, but some of the folks I named above often let their liberal bias slip when not reading the scripts.


93 posted on 01/02/2012 8:59:32 PM PST by octex
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To: Mariner

Maybe to show that he’s pro-life? and that his family has dealt with difficulty? Was the statement taken out of context?


94 posted on 01/02/2012 8:59:39 PM PST by madison10
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To: tobyhill
Pathetic, that Alan still shows up for commentary on Fox News. He was beyond obnoxious then; but never realized just how 'viral' he was; till he was free to speak with even greater independence.

Hope this ends his 'contract'.

95 posted on 01/02/2012 9:00:10 PM PST by cricket (/get the 'Occupier' out of our White House!/ and Newt 'in'. . .and it is NOT just the economy!)
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To: tobyhill

Colmes suffers from anencephaly.


96 posted on 01/02/2012 9:01:12 PM PST by pankot
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To: Mariner

You may find it weird, and so may others. I won’t disagree that it seems a little weird. However... I think it took a lot of courage for them to do that. It must have been extremely painful but it shows me how much they valued the life of their son that passed away. It’s none of your business or anyone elses how they handled the death of their son. They did what they thought was right for them and their other children.


97 posted on 01/02/2012 9:01:14 PM PST by mojitojoe (SCOTUS.... think about that when you decide to sit home and pout because your candidate didn't win)
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To: Mariner
Colmes' comment and some of the intrusive comments here shows why we do not have the kinds of candidates we would prefer as conservatives.

A few of the comments profess to be as knowledgeable as if the commenter were a fly on the wall.

To have treated their baby with the love and respect JUST AS IF IT WERE A LITTLE HUMAN AND PART OF THIS FAMILY in order to love and honor it is a very personal thing, and way beyond the purvue of a reptile like Colmes and others who want to titillate over them playing with it like a doll, etc.

When I was a little girl, my grandfather died at home. The men built a wooden coffin. The women lined it with flannel and a homemade quilt and washed the body and dressed it for burial. He was placed in the front hall and family and neighbors sat up with him all night--it was called a wake.

What the Santorums did was their way of coping with grief and making all the family an integral part. They grieved for and buried a child. It was private and should have remained that way.

vaudine

98 posted on 01/02/2012 9:01:40 PM PST by vaudine
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To: Mariner

Because it is a life altering event...because it makes you realize how precious all life is..because...never mind, you wouldn’t understand..and I pray that you never have to suffer through an experience that MIGHT make you understand...until then, don’t judge what you have not experienced..just be grateful.


99 posted on 01/02/2012 9:02:04 PM PST by coloradomomba (Lord God...please use me.)
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To: Pontiac

Thanks for an excellent explanation. Generally, Christians and certainly Catholics recognize the dignity in and of the Word of God that is attached to the “seed”, in Biblical terms. Here we have a newborn, certainly worthy of dignity as a human soul also. To be able to release someone and let them go in a godly manner and with dignity, it would be nice to first actually receive them into the family and with the family.

Another FReeper said that this newborn suffered from a fatal condition which was known and diagnosed by the physicians, and that this cruel remark was more about the fact that the baby didn not get aborted. If this really is the inherent motivation of liberal wickedness, imagine just how dark their world actually is.


100 posted on 01/02/2012 9:02:11 PM PST by RitaOK (The higher you poll in Iowa, the more embarrassing it is for you.)
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