rick santorum actually came out today i don't know if you saw this he came out on fox today and said that he didn't hear the booing that's why he didn't announce it on the stage. that he day he does denounce it now. and. you know i actually think that if you're going to hold rick santorum to that standard and that if he should come out and denounce somebody saying this is some audience reaction like this why not hold barack obama to the same standard barack obama has yet to denounce an invited speaker that he brought to his labor day rally jimmy hoffa jr who incited a call to violence let's take these as so peas out at the. courage of those refer yeah at the ballot box but still it's there she always rhetoric he said we've got all the rhetoric yeah but you know why the lizard sort of sarah palin when she used her target i mean the point is that it's vitriolic rhetoric and it should be acceptable anywhere but the point is that if you don't hold rick santorum to that standard i certainly hope you hold barack obama in the same standard. yeah i think it was i mean i think it's right for

presidential candidate rick santorum now as we've discussed on this show before rick has a little bit of a google problem case you aren't aware of santorum has been hounded by gay rights groups since of two thousand and three or march rate compare the legalization of gay sex and gay marriage to pedophilia b.c. ality and incest now to get even a gay rights activist created definition for the word santorum and then place it on a website i can't really give you the definition on t.v. but you can google it and find out yourself so back in june rick was asked about his google problem and emmett and n.b.c. and this was his response. well you know. the it comes with the territory when you're out there unfortunately there are people out there who do do horrible things of my and i responsible it is to go out and and talk about the issues that i care about i it's unfortunate that some people thought that they would be a big joke to to make fun of my name. you know i totally agree with rick it's vile to make fun of people and say crazy things about the but that's what rick santorum did when he s

are they going to rick santorum? not likely. they might be disaffected temporarily, i think. perry because he has their basic, hard-right conservative values. >> steve, is this now the opening for chris christie of new jersey? >> it's interesting, i don't think chris christie will run at the end of the day. i'm talking about all these symptoms of why it's failing for rick perry, here's another one. the promise of the rick perry candidacy was, we were going to stop hearing about chris christie, stop hearing about how there was room for a savior, for a white knight -- >> he can't control if conservatives are meeting with him. >> right, they wouldn't be meeting with him. >>> bill crystal throwing his name out. the network is pushing for chris christie to jump into this then because they're not happy with rick perry. >> if rick perry was getting it done as a candidate the way he was supposed to be, bill crystal wouldn't be saying, i want chris christie in this race. >> don't you think some of that is they can't control this guy, this guy is a radical tea partier. >> it shows the d

agree with rick it's vital to make fun of people and say crazy things about the but that's what rick santorum did when he said a marriage is going to lead to men and dogs having sex so this week we learned that rick reached out to the company to see if something could be done about it now google says sorry can't help you rick and of course after being told no rick then played the g.o.p. victim card an all time favorite for the party he told politico i suspect if something was up there like that about joe biden they'd get rid of it and then went on to say if you're responsible business you'll let things like that happen in your business that have an impact on the country great. impact on the country somebody calls you out for being a bigot has an impact on the country not to mention you're rick santorum you're not joe biden most people don't even know who you are they don't care about the dirty things that have been written about you or your last name so let's just take a few steps back into reality now shall we now rick was also quoted in politico as saying to have a business allow that type

[laughter] [cheers and applause] rick santorum is putting the issue of gay marriage in terms everydaynderstand. if you give napkins and paper towels equal status, you undermine the sanctity of the thing you use to pick up dog vomit. [laughter] see, nobody knows better than rick santorum that you can't just redefine something to mean something else. "santorum" means only "former senator from pennsylvania." and if you don't believe me, you can google it. [laughter] so just as marriage will always be heterosexual marriage, napkins will always be what they are: incredibly gay. [laughter] to think that all these years, i've been resting them on my lap and touching them to my lips. and when i have ribs, i use as many as i can get my hands on -- i'm such a slut! [laughter] and sometimes you even stuff them through a ring, which i now understand just enhances their pleasure. well, that ends now. i'm replacing all the napkins in my house with paper towels. and i'm going with the straightest brand out there: brawny. [laughter] helloooo. we'll be right back. [cheers and applause] >> stephen: wel

rick santorum came on fairly strong last night. how much good can he do himself at this stage of the game and do you think that he has some sticking power in all of this, steve? >> candidly, i don't think he can do himself much good. i agree with you, i thought he had a good debate. in fact i would argue if you go back and look at the performances on substances over the past five debates, rick santorum has probably given as good a performance as anything, newt gingrich had a couple of strong ones and mitt romney had a couple of strong ones, including last night, but rick santorum, there's no real chance that he's going to mount a surge that we're going to see rick santorum competing with rick perry and mitt romney in the next several weeks. martha: it does appear that he'll leave a lasting impression as somebody knowledgable on all of these images and speak to them in a really nimble way. we'll see where that gets him. thank you very much, steve hayes. >> thank you. bill: want to talk about immigration, social security, and the eco

the "are you afraid of the dark" debate, and the "don't tell rick santorum we're canceling the debate" debate. by the way, santorum... ( cheers and applause ) yeah. santorum still came in fifth in that debate. things aren't going his way. so what can we possibly learn about the candidates during their third debate in 15 days? probably nothing. but the audience continues to surprise. >> in 2010 when i was deployed to iraq i had to lie about who i was because i'm a gay soldier. i didn't want to lose my job. my question is, under one of your presidencies, do you intend to circumvent the progress that's been made for gay and lesbian soldiers in the military? >> (audience: (booing). >> jon: yeah, boo. i give the audience credit. it takes a lot of balls to boo a guy who can stick your head in his biceps and crack it like a walnut. look at those things. those aren't bicpeps. if i'm sure if this guy turned into the hulk, his arms would stay the same size. they would just turn green. but of course rick santorum handled this ugly incident beautifully. no, he did not chastise any individuals in

>> well, yeah, i think rick santorum took advantage last night and had a very strong performance. you know, if perry is starting to bleed a bit. if he bleeds in iowa, you have to look for herman cain, rick an storm or michele bachmann to take advantage of that. there's still an open race in iowa, if perry doesn't get as much traction as we thought he might. santorum had a good performance. i was glad to be gary johnson on the stage. he deserves to be on the stage, as does buddy roemer, and others who have been shut out. he stole the night with his one-liner -- >> we'll have him on later. >> okay. good many. >> i think maybe, bob, that governor perry's team is assisting johnson and others beyond, because that means he has less time to mess up. >> that wouldn't be a bad idea. it's not just that he had a lack of preparation. they don't seem to be sure footed. their excuse afterwards was, well, gee, he's like ronald reagan who wasn't a great debater. first of all, that's true. if you're a republican don't compare yourself to reagan. if you're a democrat, don't compare yourself to jfk.

bauchman, i've got to say, about as fast of a drop as i've seen since the iowa straw poll, and rick santorum at 3%. pat buchanan, let's talk headlines first. rick perry, the horrible week is starting to show up in polls here, 19%. >> well, he's in real trouble, joe. i think perry's got to go out

he's while he's trying to do that, he's got rick santorum and michelle bachman, a little bit of ron paulushing him on the right. he's got to protect that right flank at exactly the same time. so the degree of difficulty for rick perry tonight is quite high. >> bill: do you see them ganging up on perry again as they did last time? do you think that will happen again? >> i was thinking about that. you would think that there is a chance that some of the ones would try to go after romney. yet when you look at those who need traction, when you look at rick santorum, when you look at ron paul, they have to really -- when you look at michelle bachman, they need to start doing better in iowa which means they need to start to feel some of rick perry's conservative support. what could happen, what you could see is john huntsman taking it to romney and that will give perry a little bit of cover. but i think it's going to be one of the interesting dynamics. >> bill: the reason he would do that is in new hampshire huntsman is running second. >> third in new hampshire right now, but ahead of rick perr

they love rick santorum.ere in trying to build up to resonate a message to the wider audience so you are dproaing in th grows to stay viable. >> what i try to do is be authentic. you don't get sound bite eapses from me, you see one out on the trail every day giving thoughtful eapses and talking about what i would do and not mensing words. what you saw from some people up on that stage is a lot of fluff. i was scratching my head many times when particularly he govern romney and governor perry was answering questions. they finished answering and i was saying what are they saying and what are they for? it is like playing o offense. instead of trying to go to the hole and score and let people know what your moves are for the country they are trying to hold the ball in the lead. maybe that is a good strategy and maybe these folks here in the media will continue to cover that. i think what folks are looking for is somebody who is going to be crisp and clean and authentic about what they believe in and what their vi

that exchange between congressman ron paul and former pennsylvania senator rick santorum so a lot of challenges here and i think it merits a closer look gareth porter is an investigative journalist who specializes in covering u.s. national security policy and he joins me now to talk about this and i know this is sort of an area area of your expertise and you just wrote an article that came out a couple nights ago called ignoring post nine eleven death of innocence and you talked about this notion held by so many and we just got sort of embodied in what sense rick santorum said in this debate last night talk about this sentiment and what it means and how it poses of course what santorum said is the official line of not just the u.s. government but more concretely the national security part of the government because unless you take the position that the the threat of terrorism including one of them has nothing to do with u.s. military presence in the middle east or wars that the united states fights on the soil of islamic countries then you're going to have a problem justifying a polic

rick santorum, the fighter. herman cain, the businessman. >> jon: newt gingrich, that guy who left his wife with cancer. (laughter) i got nothing. what? they can't... no? well, they can't all be flattering nicknames. (laughter) all right, fine. we've met all the 2012 republican presidential contenders. let's get on with the debate. it's time now to meet the 2012 republican presidential contenders. joining us now on stage, the former u.s. senator from pennsylvania, rick santorum. (cheers and applause) the former speaker of the house, newt gingrich. (cheers and applause) (laughter) >> we... we just met them. we... (laughter). remember you had the whole graphic with the "the firebrand! the businessman! the newcomer!" and now it's a... all right. now can we have a debate? >> ladies and gentlemen, please rise now and join recording artist diana nagy as she leads us in the national anthem. >> jon: oh, for (bleep) sake! (cheers and applause) come on! we get it. everyone there loves america. (laughter) for god's sake, t

that actually was rick santorum. we can reroll that. l get to what rick perry had to say shortly. in south carolina, rick santorum criticizes the president on everything from the job on compete to the handling of the uprising in egypt and he tried to cut down on enthusiasm for the newly minted republican front-runner. >> look at rick perry. he may be a good guy, may end up being our nominee. but rick perry went to the top of the charts. why? because of what rick perry did? no. because of what the media did. whoever the flavor of month is, the media grabs its attention. >> joined live on the phone by nbc news campaign embed ali wineburg covering the santorum campaign. good sunday morning to you. what's the categorization here? rick santorum being really hard on his republican rivals? is that the m.o. now for the campaign? >> good morning. yeah, that seems to be the case. he's certainly said that a lot of the attention his opponents received in that sound bite you played, have received a lot of attention because of the medium dubs them fla

just say, show me the carfax. >>> back with senator rick santorum.rn again to your rivals in the race for white house. talk about michele bachmann for a moment. what do you make of her? >> i think michelle is a dynamic person. someone who can certainly get out there and rally the crowd and has taken some pretty strong stances on issues. where i differ from michelle is really a matter of proven leadership. i'm someone who has taken strong conservative positions, but i've been successful in working with democrats in passing major pieces of legislation, like the welfare reform and the fiscal and foreign policy issues i've been able to bridge the gap and get things done and provided leadership and that's where the differentiation is between the two of us in our activity in washington, d.c. >> given the obvious splits between the tea party and the more moderate end of the republicans, what kind of team tag are we going to end up with here? is the most likely scenario we have a moderate with a tea party candidate as a modern running mate, and could it be t

the new law never tasted so good. >> google has told republican presidential candidate rick santorum that there is nothing they can do to solve what they are calling his google problem. back in 2003 centrally santorum compared homosexuality to be saudi end, they started not online campaign that eventually went the word of santorum to the graphic byproduct of sex. so when you google santorum that sexual definition tossup before his campaign website. politico ports that santorum asked to google to remove boyd because that type of building google responded telling santorum that it does not remove content from search results except in limited cases. >>> transgender inmate at vacaville prison has lost her bid to have taxpayers pay for sex reassignment surgery. she is serving 50 years or life for murder. she said the state demanding $50,000 to complete the process she claims because she is under threat of sexual assault women to male inmates and wants to be transferred to the women's facility. today the california appeals court rejected the argument without explanation. >> he was part of th

. >>> tonight he calls himself a little engine that could but could rick santorum make a serious run for the white house? >> i don't hide myself from the public or from the press. i answer the question. i think that's what folks are looking for. >> santorum controversial, conservative and taking outspoken aim at his republican rivals. >> i've done this for 12 years in the united states senate where i differ from michelle is really a matter of proven leadership. >> real life rocky times two. victor ortiz in the fight of his life. >> i'm taking my title home. that means the victory as well. >> and the great oscar de la hoya life lessons from a tentime world champion. >> it can ruin your life. it almost ruined mine. >> this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> joining me now is rick santorum, one of the crowded field of republicans who aim to challenge barack obama in 2012. senator, thank you for joining me. >> thank you, piers. good to be on. >> i don't want to start on a defeater's note here but the cnn poll on monday had you at 1% of the vote to be the republican nominee. >> i don't really

. >> senator rick santorum will be here. he had a great debate last night, he's very strong and he'll be joining us live telling us where he goes from here and also talking about former giants defensive back, running defensive back, jordin sparks. >> winner of "american idol." she's on a new ambassador program. glenn beck started a brand new program yesterday. she'll be joining us to talk about that and one of the most prolific and, you know, successful songwriters and singers and piano players of all time, mr. barry manilow will be with us live. >> will be very emotional for me a little bit later, the guy that i broke into the nba with, shaquille o'neill will be here and we'll go over old times with the magic along with venus williams. >> you were in the nba, you told me yesterday you were in the nhl. >> i think you misunderstood. >> starting at 6:02 a.m., he comes out of fantasy world into reality so we have 30 seconds left. >> i have nothing. let's go talk about what happened last night at the big debate because that was

bill: rick santorum, he wants to be president.live in a moment here getting ready for thursday's presidential debate here on the "fox news channel.". >> he has gotten a free ride for a month of the media trying to crown this man, the new frontrunner and they have done a great job. he soared in the polls. i wish i had 1/10 of the media coverage governor perry gotten in the last month and all the nice attention he has. it's what they do. accept it. you can't change the way banking works. just accept it, man. free ? doesn't close at five ? trnature. you give them all yo money, and they put you on hold. just accept it. what are you going to do, bury your money in the backyard ? accept it. just stay with the hd, son. accept it. it's only money. it's a bank. what do you want, a hug ? just accept it, friend. hidden fees, fine print, or they'll stick it to you some other way. smile and accept it. it's been this way since pants. accept it... just accept it. accept it. i'm a doctor. just accept it. accept it... accept it. just accept it ! i

romney is rick santorum, former senator. then michele bachmann behind him in fifth place. there is a texas governor named rick perry running for this nomination as well but you would have no way of knowing that if you were just looking at the polling. if you were just looking at the straw polling. this weekend, herman cain won yet another republican activist straw poll, a big one. this rounds out a string of big republican straw poll victories for herman cain. in may, washington state. in july, colorado. western conservative summit there. in august, georgia. this weekend, florida. ron paul has won a number of smaller straw polls. in terms of statewide gop straw polls, ron paul's big kahuna was california, which he won hugely last weekend. mitt romney won a michigan straw poll this weekend. he won ohio in july. in new hampshire he won in january. mr. santorum won his home state of pennsylvania, as well as south carolina. michele bachmann won ames, iowa. if straw polls meant winning that state, if he meant electoral college votes, these would be the standings. among the repu

any other developed nation in the world except for iceland but that's not good enough i guess as rick santorum points and he thinks corporations should pay no taxes at all well but the big thing i've posed is to take the corporate rate which makes us un competitive particularly extorting goods take the corporate rate and cut zero for me factures well ricky wake up and smell the coffee and many corporations already pay no corporate taxes in fact they paid less than no corporate taxes they get welfare like g.e. sure and more than fourteen billion in profits yet somehow paid no taxes and even managed to get a three point two billion dollars tax rebate or horizon because workers are on strike because the corporation is trying to cut their benefits which earns more than twenty four billion dollars in profits last year and like g.e. paid no taxes but instead got a tax rebate over the last two years of over a billion bucks not to mention bank of america boeing exxon mobil citigroup wells fargo some of the biggest corporations in america paid no nada none zero zip taxes in the united states and twenty

appreciate it. >> you, too. >> rich santorum had harsh words for rick perry last night. el about the comments this morning? any regrets? he might have a few. too few to mention. i'll go on and paula back together with simon. is she happy about it? i got the answer from paula herself! she's on "the x factor". [ male announcer ] butter. love the taste, but want to cut back on f? try smart balance buttery sead. 's heart-healthier than butter. with omega-3s. 64% less saturated fat. andlinically proven to help support healthy cholesterol. ♪ put a little love in your heart ♪ [ kid ] dad? who is honus...wagner? no idea. let me see that. that's a honus wagner autograph... the hall of famer? look at this ball! yeah, found that at yard sale. i thought pickles would like it. [ dog barks ] that a new car jerry? yeah... sweet, man. [ male announcer ] the audi a8. named best large luxury sedan. ♪ exclusive to the military. and commitment is not limited to one's military oath. the same set of values that drive our nation's military are the ones we used to build usaa bank. from free chec

rick santorum was not invited to participate.dn't make the cut, which was clearing 5% in a national average of polls. that doesn't mean he's not playing hard in south carolina today. he just finished walking in the labor day parade, which is a traditional jumpoff point for the presidential season here. he actually referred to himself a couple times to myself and another reporter as the hardest working man in politics. he was the only presidential candidate out here. in fact, people really did seem to be appreciative of his presence. a couple people said they were sorry and it was a bummer that he wasn't invited to the freedom forum. a couple actually said that he had their vote because he had shown up today. >> that appreciation notwithstanding. is rick santorum starting to get traction there? >> reporter: well, it still remains to be seen how much he's showing up in the polls and how many voters are going to end up throwing their vote to him, but events like this are certainly important. the retail politics is a big factor. you

rick santorum's explanation on fox news about it today was that he just didn't hear the booing of the soldier. again, here's what mr. santorum says he didn't hear. >> do you intend to circumvent the progress that's been made for gay and lesbian soldiers in the military? >> boo! >> yeah, i -- i would say any type of sexual activity has absolutely no place in the military. >> whether or not you believe that rick santorum couldn't hear the booing there, i'm sort of more vested in his unprompted declaration there, sexual act -- any type of sexual activity has no place in the military. i'm more interested in this, that nobody in the military should have any kind of sexual activity at all. he's calling for a celibate military. i would like to hear more about this idea, as i'm sure would every 18-year-old in the country thinking about enlisting in our military. but the broader point here, in the 1990s when bill clinton took on the idea of gays in the military, it is broadly thought to have hurt him politically, to be something on which he spent political capital, he did not gain it. this yea

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tea party debate of course between congressman ron paul and former pennsylvania senator rick santorum as you are in our last hour i spoke to investigative journalist gareth porter about just what is going on here. put santorum said is the official line of not just the u.s. government but more concretely the national security part of the government because unless you take the position that that the threat of terrorism including nine eleven has nothing to do with u.s. military presence in the middle east or wars that the united states fights on the soil of islamic countries then you're going to have a problem justifying a policy and so what happens here is that within the u.s. government and more broadly as it is essentially spread through news media in this country to the general population we get the general notion that we can't talk about any link between the wars of the united states fights in islamic lands or against islamic people and the threat of terrorism when in fact you know it's very very well established that there is such a link and in fact in my article i quoted perhaps t

maybe to this a little bit too far but i do have to agree with him that it's a bit strange that rick santorum dedicate so much time and energy talking about gay people what they do in their bedroom i have no idea and furthermore for that matter the majority of the republican party stop obsessing about what goes on in people's bedrooms spend a little bit more time focusing on things like the economy and lastly i want to thank one of our viewers who watched our interview last night with former chief of staff to colin powell colonel lawrence wilkerson even webster the senior editor story tweeted to us hey at below to show great wilkerson interview keep it up so i want to thank stephen for the comma and for posting our interview on raw story are huge fans of the site and are constantly turning there for news the mainstream media doesn't cover and that my rantings today have been have more for you next week as usual. the sky. the light will come and. so lest you can i or others will be singing. today we have a glimmer of hope and it comes from the financial world i know there's still corruption on

right so apparently gary johnson is calling rick santorum a liar and b. you know what goes on if you were gary johnson it bears repeating was standing right next to santorum was like they were in different spots on the stage and they were right next to each other. and you know i don't know maybe carrie johnson got some kind of super sensitive hearing. or forgot to turn on his hearing aid i don't know. so here is actually another example of this really none of the candidates gave a stronger review because gary johnson and again this this is about executions as. your state has executed two hundred thirty four death row inmates more than any other governor in modern times have you. your thoughts on that. yeah well that was very shocking and you know i think there were as far as the death penalty goes. there's a real disconnect in this country among not just republicans but put people in general between knowing you know a majority of people sixty percent know that we execute innocent people who are sure of it and yet sixty nine percent still support capital p

anytime soon at least as long as fox so-called news story on the airwaves stay and be very very ugly rick santorum in an interview with politico santorum went after google accusing the internet giant of having an agenda against him and negatively impacting their country it all comes down to that frothy search result that comes up when you google rick santorum snake check it out for yourself or maybe you should in any case. i suspected something was up like that out there like that about joe biden they get rid of it but if if you're a responsible business you don't let things like that happen in your business that . average impact on the country. of the country you know rick your google search results really have no impact on the contrary whatsoever though they could have an impact on your presidential campaign perhaps that's something you should have thought about before you decided to base your entire political career on hubble phobia and that's a very clear. coming out united states senate candidate elizabeth warren has a message we all need to hear i'll tell you what's in that message in tonigh

barack obama getting a rest from all of the incoming fire as everyone from michele bachmann to rick santorum circled the wagons to try to prevent rick perry from spoiling their party. thank you so much for spending an mpbafternoon with me. we'll see you at 4:00 tomorrow. >>> playoffs. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. leading off tonight, fear factor. how scared of rick perry is the republican establishment? well, in one short month, perry shot to the top of the gop chart with tough texas talk about state's rights and saying the federal reserve chairman may be guilty of treason. it's raw meat for the base, but the party's grown-ups, if you will, desperate to beat president obama, are growing worried. perry's loose lips could sink their ship. and it's not just the republican establishment hitting perry. look at what happened last night. the texas governor got beat up from the right at that tea party debate with michele bachmann and rick santorum leading the attack. can perry take the punches and keep on swinging? plus, why has rick perry caught fire so

there's an interesting race going on for third place and i think rick santorum did very well and may ving up there, especially in iowa. that's very important in case one of the two front-runners stumbles. >> you mentioned romney is your winner. let's talk about rick perry for a moment. conservative columnist charles krauthammer said following the debate that rick perry is, quote, still the rookie in the field. you represented george w. bush and he got a lot of heat sometimes for not really being the smartest guy on the stage. he became president, so does perry have reason to worry here? >> well, i don't think he has reason to worry. he's a strong rookie if you want to call him a rock okirookie. i think the issue is he got in late and i don't think anybody can understand it unless they go through a presidential how hard it is to mount a national campaign even if you're a popular governor like rick perry is. he's going to learn and what happens in september is really forgotten about in january by the time the first votes are taken. the key is will rick perry learn from some of the thing