Rick Santorum Blasts TV Host Charlie Rose

This paragraph in the article cracked me up and gave some humor to an otherwise contentious campaign we are witnessing.  Rick Santorum seems to have more people like this who are not afraid to admit that they shouldn't have said something.  Very refreshing compared to the cut throat supporters of Romney especially anyone associated with the Romney Super PAC who may go down in history as the nastiest Super PAC ever.

By the way, you wouldn't know it from Rose, but Friess released a rather charming apology this morning. "After listening to the segment tonight, I can understand how I confused people with the way I worded the joke and their taking offense is very understandable," the Santorum backer said on his blog. "To all those who took my joke as modern day approach I deeply apologize and seek your forgiveness. My wife constantly tells me I need new material—she understood the joke but didn’t like it anyway—so I will keep that old one in the past where it belongs."

Either the liberal media is getting worse or more people are waking up to the gotcha questions.  There is definite liberal bias but recently as members of the conservative media pushed Romney at the expense of other candidates, you have to wonder about some conservative bias as well.  There are members from both sides although many more on the liberal side who don't have a clue about the Society for Professional Journalism Code of Ethics.  The Preamble and #1 item on the list is ignored over and over again by a lot of today's so-called journalists who are more opinion writers than journalists:

PreambleMembers of the Society of Professional Journalists believe that public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy. The duty of the journalist is to further those ends by seeking truth and providing a fair and comprehensive account of events and issues. Conscientious journalists from all media and specialties strive to serve the public with thoroughness and honesty. Professional integrity is the cornerstone of a journalist's credibility. Members of the Society share a dedication to ethical behavior and adopt this code to declare the Society's principles and standards of practice.

Test the accuracy of information from all sources and exercise care to avoid inadvertent error. Deliberate distortion is never permissible.

That is something that needs on every desk of any journalist in America as a reminder not to distort the facts.  There are some journalist if you can call him that like Charlies Rose who is very biased and will report in such a manner to distort the real story.  Shows a total lack of ethics and people like him are a black mark on good, professional journalist who do their best to always get the story correct.

About time our candidates starting calling out the reporters and pundits who are biased and don't give ALL the facts.

Santorum Pushes Back

12:19 PM, Feb 17, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

Taking a page out of Newt Gingrich's playbook, Rick Santorum blasted TV host Charlie Rose this morning, accusing the anchor of exposing his liberal bias:

It's a good exchange for the Republican candidate. Santorum's sharp and fiery when Rose tries to get him to explain Foster Friess's apparently controversial remarks on contraception that the funder made yesterday on MSNBC.

"Hold on, Charlie. When you quote a bad joke from a supporter of mine that somehow I’m responsible for, that’s 'gotcha,'" Santorum tells Rose. 

The TV host responds: "No one’s saying your responsible, senator. They’re asking how you would characterize it and what you said to him. Not that you were responsible. It’s to understand how you differ from what this person said." 

"So now I’m gonna have to respond to when every supporter says something?" Santorum responds. "Look, this is what you guys do. You don’t do this with President Obama. In fact, with President Obama, you went out and defended him from someone he sat in a church for 20 years and defended him with, 'Oh, he can’t possibly believe what he listened to for 20 years.' This is a double standard, it’s what you’re pulling off, and I’m gonna call you on it." 

Source:  Weekly Standard