Rick Santorum on Moderators: Trump Wouldn't Be Any Worse 'Than What We Get from the Mainstream Media'
The media are all in a tizzy about the idea of real estate tycoon Donald Trump moderating a Republican presidential debate.
On Tuesday, one of the candidates, Rick Santorum, told KLIF substitute radio host Steve Malzberg, "I can't see in some cases where Donald Trump would be any worse than what we get from the mainstream media" (video follows with transcript):
STEVE MALZBERG: What about Donald Trump as a moderator? Is that something you're comfortable with or not?
RICK SANTORUM: Well, I, you know, if you look at and see the, particularly who somebody the mainstream media has put up. You know, Brian Williams I wasn't comfortable with, and I had every right not to be given the questions he asked. Charlie Rose was, I mean, you go on down the list of all the people that they've had, these reporters who have tried to make this debate about them and not about the candidates and what they believe in, and rearranging times to make sure that the people that they wanted to have time get time, I can't see in some cases where Donald Trump would be any worse than what we get from the mainstream media.
MALZBERG: You must have been listening, because that's what I said an hour ago. I said Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper. Blitzer in fact mocked all of you after the debate prior to the CNN debate. He put together a montage, I forget in what context, but it was mocking of all the Republican candidates, and he knew that he was moderating the next one.
SANTORUM: Well, like I said, I mean, these debates have not, I think, reflected well on the media. They've been a lot of gotcha moments. They've been a lot of steering questions to whoever the flavor of the month is, and it's been more about trying to create conflict instead of trying to create light and give candidates really the opportunity to explain their position instead of this, you know, silly 30-second answers to, you know, how do you solve world peace. I mean, those are the things that I think really agitate a lot of the voters out there, and I guess that I'm not too sure Donald Trump will do any worse than any of them.
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Rick Santorum is great.
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 2:10pm.
LOL, I don't think Trump will be happy with him saying Trump should be able to do no worse than LSM. That is a pretty low bar, but certainly a true statement. I am sure Trump would do a better job AND be more entertaining to boot.
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
Which merely proves
Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 2:26pm.
Rick Santorum has a very well developed sense of humor!
Good for him.
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Shrieking populism warning
Submitted by Unsane on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 2:29pm.
If Trump is a moderator, be prepared for LOTS of populist shrieking about his obsessive devotion, China. Every question from Trump will mention China at least 50 times.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Rick
Submitted by NewLife56 on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 2:58pm.
Trump Wouldn't Be Any Worse 'Than What We Get from the Mainstream Media'
BINGO!!!!!
liberal media
Submitted by kinijane on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 6:47pm.
Are crying foul because it might be an enlightening debate about the issues
facing this country instead of so called journalist playing "gotya" and looking
for something demeaning to saturate the air waves with.
I think Trump will actually
Submitted by Smartypants on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 3:15pm.
I think Trump will actually be a refreshing change in this role. I'm not a big ban of his, but I think he'll do a good job of bringing to focus issues that many conservative voters want covered. When they get these liberal media moderators for the debates, they're objective is often to make everybody look bad. They don't try to flesh out information as much as they try to back candidates into a corner in some way or another. I think Trump will ask more pointed questions and will encourage direct answers.
yeah...the same guy that
Submitted by rubberneck on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 7:37am.
yeah...the same guy that voted for Obama ::rolls eyes::
Trump will be the Boss. As in debate the boss...
Submitted by upcountrywater on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 3:34pm.
And it will go like this: Celebrity Apprentice
You Didn't Build That.
RICK SANTORUM SCORES!
Submitted by Avitar on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 4:16pm.
CBS was probably the worse but CNN was plenty bad. There is no way the Donald would be worse than those. There would also be the benefit of him asking politically incorrect questions like:
Answer to Question #2:
Submitted by Unsane on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 4:27pm.
F*** CHINA.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Succinct.
Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 7:02pm.
Do you think we can get Huntsman to say it in Mandarin?
No. I didn't think so either.
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Wha the heck? TESTING!!! This
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 4:10pm.
Wha the heck?
TESTING!!!
This is my 3rd time trying to post a comment in this thread. The last two just disappeared into the ether.
Dude, I think you are on the
Submitted by inquiringmind on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 4:48pm.
Dude, I think you are on the list. No one but Trolls make it to that list!
3 cheers for bold blunt Republicans !!!
Submitted by reelman46 on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 7:04pm.
MANY ARE SICK OF THE MEDIA TELLING US WHO CAN'T WIN...
EVEN FOX HAS LOST THEIR CHEESE...YOU DO NOT PICK FOR US!!!
NOW THEY ARE HAVING A HISSY BECAUSE TRUMP HAS A MINI-DEBATE OR WHATEVER...
IS THERE ANY FREEDOM FROM THESE ARROGANT MEDIA TYPES???
SOME GENERAL RANDOM THOUGHTS...
A far as Obama...his voting record and endoresements in the Senate were clear...100% socialist utopian
The Repubs learned nothing after Dole...
they ran another shy old insider (McCain) against a bold younger platitude/promiser (Obama)
Big northeast Repubs want the least real conservatism and learned nothing from Reagan
The Nov. 2010 election that sent over 725 democrats home taught the sissy Repub bigwigs nothing
Only Newt has treated the biased pawn media as they should be treated...as the constant enemy
As long as the Repubs have no "quick reply force" or standard repeated "talking points" they
will appear to be pantywaists...they generally are horrible at "interview" debate and suckers for distractions and false premises
If Obama does not lose big...when can the Repubs ever beat the bold lying socialist utopians?
Doug Schexnayder, Ph.D. (theconservativecrawfish<
Rickie
Submitted by ray johnson on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 7:13pm.
is looking better and better.
What's wrong with...
Submitted by Tom1969ca on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 12:23am.
What's wrong with having a GOP-member moderate the GOP debate? Seems like a no-brainer to me...
(Personally, I'd get Sarah Palin to do it rather than Trump, though...)
An excellent suggestion. Can you imagine the grilling by Sarah..
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 1:07am.
"And now a question for all the candidates: What offends you most by having the nation's highest office occupied by a Muslim from Kenya? Governor Perry, we'll start with you."
Jer
...
Submitted by Tom1969ca on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 1:40am.
I seem to recall Palin saying that she believes Obama was born in Hawaii ... ah yes, here it is: "...I think he was born in Hawaii because there was the birth announcement put in the newspaper. But, obviously if there’s something there that the president doesn’t want people to see on that birth certificate. Then he seems to go to great lengths to make sure it isn’t shown.” (http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/04/sarah-palin-on-trumps-birther-in...)
But why let a little thing like what Sarah Palin actually said about the matter get in the way of an opportunity to kick her once more, eh Jer?
As far as the questions she would ask the candidates, anything would be preferable to the merciless grilling Obama suffered in 2008...
(all asked by ABC's Charlie Gibson)
Of course, after such a tough vetting of the Democrat candidate for President, Gov. Palin (running for the #2 job) got all the softballs:
(also all asked by ABC's Charlie Gibson)
Answer to Jer's false premise.
Submitted by Denny Crane on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 2:25am.
The highest office is occupied by a muslim from Kenya. Is that why they renamed it "Willis tower"?
We Are The 53%
⇒ Zetuni Tower
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 2:42am.
Good one, Denny. And here I was trying to figure out when Sarah Palin claimed Obama was a Muslim Kenyan.
Muslim Keynesian? I can see.
BTW, was "Willis Tower" originally known as "Whatchootalkinbout Tower"
Okay guys...ease up.
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 3:41am.
Just joshin' y'all.
I retract the Kenyan/Muslim question and replace it with "Approximately how many of the nation's elderly will have their lives cruelly snuffed out by Obama death panels in a typical year? Congresswoman Bachmann, we'll start with you."
Jer
⇒ Cremated or Saved
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 3:57am.
Quantifying the Administration's new metric has been something of a problem.
I thought under the new HHS guidelines,
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 4:06am.
a granny saved is a granny urned.
Jer
⇒ We have a winner!
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 4:11am.
Great comeback! Bravo!
Thanks, Cool...I'm outa here.
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 4:43am.
Later,
Jer
Guys just wanna
Submitted by Pharmer on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 3:26am.
watch Sarah Palin. ;-)
Ya she would be a good one to concentrate the debate on what we care about.
...
Submitted by Tom1969ca on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 8:06am.
Truth is spoken here! ;-)
We've got:...
They've got:
... and people wonder why I'm a conservative! ;-)
But Trump is an EEEVILLLL Rich Guy!
Submitted by Pharmer on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 3:23am.
Trump is one of those squishy moderates but would be a most entertaining moderator.
People seem to hate him for his business success, however I do not.
His propensity for saying whatever he wants is an attractive quality which might bring me to watch this debate.
I haven't been interested in watching the leftists pull the strings of the Republican candidates in public.
Trump is a clown. GOP needs
Submitted by rubberneck on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 7:35am.
Trump is a clown. GOP needs to stay far away from him. It will be used against the GOP in the general election. I assure you of that.
I love how people support him, yet he voted for Obama.
To the point
Submitted by Agnostic on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 8:23am.
Trump may be a clown but how so compared to the other liberal moderators who have shied away from making the debates about the economy?
If Trump does nothing but introduce a heavy dose of economics and business functions into the debates I would be happy. If his showmanship can get people to watch a debate that spells out the economic problems we are facing I would be doubly happy.
⇒ Point, Agnostic
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 8:33am.
After all, we learned a lot about Barack Obama when he went on Leno and made a Special Olympics joke.
fine CA,
Submitted by Agnostic on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 8:59am.
for all my time on this site I've seen Republicans complain that they don't have any representation of their own and the liberal media controls the debates. This cycle there have been two (Newt Vs. Cain and Trump). Very few watched the Newt and Cain have their debate and it was roundly criticized in the media and both sides are content with condemning Trump. Perhaps the complaints about the media controlling the message is not as sincere as I thought.
⇒ I've seen them all
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 9:10am.
I don't feel at all cheated with the exposure of these candidates. I especially liked the Newt/Cain dialogue and Huckabee's forum featuring the Attys General.
I'm absolutely sold on the need to replace Obama. And though It's definite I'll be voting for the Republican candidate, I'm still starved to hear what the Republican hopefuls have to say.
I really like Santorum
Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 9:02pm.
Unfortunately he is about as dry as salt. I know I am in the minority, but I think when he isnt in attack mode, he has pretty good ideas. I will probably vote for him if given the opportunity.