I'm not sure what to think anymore.
Rick Santorum spokesperson,, Alice Stewart, appeared on Andrea Mitchell's MSNBC afternoon show today and she said something that must have been a slip of the tongue. It couldn't have been deliberate, could it?
Is it possible that she just said out loud what we know all the rightwingers have been thinking all along?
Here's the transcript from the portion of Andrea Mitchell's interview with Alice Stewart that the Santorum campaign is going to have to explain.
certainly, rick has said it and we all said it before. robert gibbs took it out of context. he was not questioning the president peace character or religion. as he has clarified, he is talking about the global warmists of the country, he was referring to the president's policies in terms of the radical islamic policies that the president has specifically in terms of energy explorations. keystone pipeline is case in point. it is key to helping with gas prices and job creation , he will see as the prices begin to rise, his popularity will go down with it. the keystone pipeline is a case in point that is directly attributed to that statement. and the president's policies are outlined as not working in rick santorum 's op-ed. he presented the plan about jobs and economy. it's about bottom up, free markets , and it will turn around the economy.
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12:04 PM PT: And now the predictable backtracking.
MSNBC reports: "Rick Santorum press secretary Alice Stewart called MSNBC to say she misspoke in an interview on Andrea Mitchell Reports today and did not mean to accuse President Obama of "radical Islamic policies."
Of course. The weak retraction. She meant to say, “radical environmentalist policies.” Perfectly understandable because “Islamic” and “environmentalist” are so similar they get mixed up all the time by lots of people.
All that remains is for Santorum to absolve himself because he’s not responsible for what other people say and this is just “gotcha journalism.”
What if the shoe was on the other foot? What if a representative from the President’s campaign appeared on Fox and referred to Santorum or any of the other GOP candidates as a revenue cutting fascist?