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

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[laughter] [cheers and applause] rick santorum is putting the issue of gay marriage in terms everyday people can understand. 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] >>

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

but of course rick santorum handled this ugly incident beautifully. no, he did not chastise any individuals in the crowd for their disgraceful outbursts, but on the plus side don't ask don't tell. >> that policy would be reinstituted. as far as people who are in, i would not throw them out because that would be unfair to them because of the policy of this administration. but we would move forward in conformity with what was happening in the past which was sex is not an issue. it should not be an issue. leave it alone. keep it to yourself. whether you're heterosexual or homosexual. >> jon: what planet do you (beep) live on? ( cheers and applause ) honestly. what planet? that sex is not an issue? yes, the army has never mentioned spouses heterosexual or homosexual. we need to go back to an army where soldiers never say anything about that. like this chant: i don't know know but i've been told eskimo genitalia are mighty cold. the classic aircraft, the memphis pat. and the plane that dropped the atomic bomb, the enola "none of your business." the guy is

to be fair, rick santorum on fox today -- >> let me put this up, rick santorum today did say this on fox. >> i skeen democrat the people who booed that gay soldier. he's serving our country. i thank him for my service. i have to admit i did not hear those boos, but when you're in that sort of environment, you're sort of focused on the question, formulating the answer and i didn't hear the couple booze that were out there. certainly had i, i would have said, don't do that, this man is serving our country and we are to thank him for his service. >> alex wagner. we can debate whether he heard them or not. i was in presidential debates in '04. i heard everything in the audience, but notwithstanding that, the fact that none of them responded, all of them can't say they didn't hear it. they certainly heard it in the last debate the whole booing and reaction about an unshe had 30-year-old dying -- >> right. >> and we heard it in the first debate when they cheered -- when brian williams was just raising the question about 234 people executed under governor rick perry. perry hadn't even got t

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

rick santorum may not win, but he's clearly trying to do something in this race. those remarks he made the other day about he's forgotten more about foreign policy in the middle east than rick perry ever knew shows that he's got a strategy right now and if he continues that, if he really steps up -- >> bill: why do you think santorum is doing that? he knows he can't win the nomination. is he looking to have a cabinet position in a romney presidency or something? >> i can't read his mind or heart, but i was struck this week by how hard he went up against rick perry. also it's also only path to the nomination. his only path -- >> bill: michelle bachman is a different story. she's going to go after perry, has to go after perry because perry has taken some of her support. and get her mojo back in iowa, she's got to go after him. but the santorum thing is interesting. go ahead. >> i think it's very interesting, i agree. and i think both of the possibilities you raise could be out there in some way. it's also his only path to -- these guys, when you're running for presi

they love rick santorum. where do you go from here 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 belie

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 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

that actually was rick santorum. we can reroll that. we'll 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 the

why rick santorum is demanding that google change its search results. >> this is jamie from buffalo, new york, and i'm just here to tell you that it does get better. >> he tried to send the message to help other believed gay teens and tonight his family is planning his funeral. what the boy's parents what his tormentors to here. >> i didn't know i'd found her. >> she's finding comic credited with finding the body of michelle leigh. why california researchers said the discovery was so miraculous. >> i'm ken bastida. >> on kidney. sangria is legal again. >>> can't go on like lifting the prohibition needs to the bars. >> at this bar, this drink made with cucumber flavored tequila and jalapenos was actually illegal just a few hours ago. >> didn't think it was pretty ridiculous? >> i thought it was ridiculous that the law was in effect in the first place, but, governor brown has kind of bill lifting the ban on so-called fruit infused drinks. it wasn't an issue until the state department beverage control started forcing it out of the blue vining bars $250. the agency argued that group woul

. >>> 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

just say, show me the carfax. >>> back with senator rick santorum. let me turn 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 cou

. >> 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

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bill: rick santorum, he wants to be president. he is going to join us 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... accep

on "the ed show" tonight, rick santor santorum, for real. that's next. >>> good evening, americans, and welcome to "the ed show" tonight from new york.

the rick santorum. i swear. this one works. ooh, the price sure doesn't. i'm tired of shopping around. [ sigh ] too bad you're not buying car insurance. like that's easy. oh, it is. progressive direct showed me their rates and the rates of their competitors. i saved hundreds when switching. we could use hundreds. yeah. wake up and smell the savings. out there with a better way. now, that's progressive. >>> the front-runner for the republican nomination for president is of course herman cain. former ceo of a mafia-themed pizza chain called godfather's. if you ask, herman cain is out front and in the lead. followed closely by ron paul. herman cain first, ron paul second. a distant third place as little-known former massachusetts governor, name of romney. close behind mr. romney is rick santorum, former senator. then michele bachmann behind him in fifth place. there are rumors 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 lookin

santorum as a contributor earlier this year. it wasn't always like this in america though there was a time not too long ago when corporations did pay their fair share during the one nine hundred sixty s. back when america was booming and the middle class was growing corporate taxes made up twenty two percent of all the revenue going into the government but today it's about twelve percent as in corporations have managed to get their taxes cut in half coincidentally millionaires and billionaires are large the c.e.o.'s of these corporations have also managed to cut their own income taxes and half and today enjoy the lowest levels of taxation in america in more than fifty years corporations pay less in income taxes they pay less in property taxes and they get hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies also known as corporate welfare and all of this is paid for by you and me but most americans struggling day in and day out to make men and meet all the very same corporations we're giving tax breaks to ship our jobs overseas

former senator of pennsylvania, rick santorum. strong interaction there. you have to be pleased about the way it went. i don't think governor perry is upset about the way it went. he's proud of the policy he has in texas approved by that legislature. >> well, look, i mean, this is a clear difference of opinion. that's what debates are all about. it's to let the public decide what kind of leader you want and i think if you look at governor perry on the issue of immigration whether it's providing benefits for illegals in this country, whether it's having strong border enforcement, i said last night, he's even talked about the idea of a binational health care system so he can make it easier for people to work in both countries so i just think it's -- he has a very different idea of what we need to do on illegal immigration than i do. i think that was laid out last night. >> i don't know if he had the same idea with you about don't ask, don't tell. i know you disagree with president obama which, by the way, got rid of don't ask don't toll ju tell just a couple

rick santorum was not invited to participate. he didn'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

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

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

santorum for claiming that gay rights activists are waging a jihad against him rex track thought on you tube first i seriously think fans who are his wife should worry their husband is obsessed with gays especially gay men and gay sex i think he needs it bad no doubt most likely hines's gay porn stache ok i think rex 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 ar

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 tonight's deleting. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions

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

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michele bachmann, ron paul, and rick santorum. they are coming at him from the right. that's the only place from which perry can plead. what hurt perry last night is not the ponzi scheme, it's that inoculations forced on those 12-year-olds and the immigration issue, which is a real problem. you'll notice that romney got around to perry's right on immigration, because that's a general election issue as well. >> how did he do that? because he wants a tougher border? >> not simply a tougher border, but an in-state tuition. you don't give benefits to those who are in the country illegally. >> will that work? are you concerned about that, governor pataki, that in tearing down rick perry for being too liberal, the party looks pretty far right? >> no, i don't think so. because, first of all, most of the public isn't paying attention. obviously, we all are, you are, with the people who watch the debate, but the public's not focused yet. and i think what the people are going to want to see in a general election is an alternative policy direction to the one that obama has put in

so i think rick santorum, and you hear a lot of concern about heckan kane. they just like him. who knows how far his campaign will go but he has a lot fans. >> lehrer: finally, judy, quickly, is there any question that all of these folks here, all republicans, really see florida as very important, not only to the nomination race but maybe eventually to the race for president itself? >> woodruff: you put your finger on it, jim. florida wants to be early next year in february. they already have a date in mind and when florida's primary happens it will be at that point the state with the biggest number of delegates at stake. they would be very big in general election. florida went republican in 2000, as we know, it went for obama in 2008. so this is a battleground state, couldn't be more important. republicans here are fired up, and you can hear some of that behind me. >> lehrer: okay, judy, thank you very much. >> woodruff: thank you, jim. >> lehrer: and to the analysis of shields and brooks, syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks. mark, wha