Discussion: CNN Contributor Rick Santorum Thinks Fake News Is A Real Thing

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CNN deserves to close, what is that dingbat doing there ?

I heard Santorum tell an audience (including a Dutch journalist) that old people in the Netherlands was killed by society, if they keeled over and didn’t wear small badges with “Please, don’t kill me”, Santorum is spreading fake news…

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I mean really… who gives a fuck about anything Rick Santorum says

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Well he also believes in talking snakes, sooo…

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CNN paid him to say that?

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HUH?? By Santorum’s logic it would seem any or all “opinion” is fake news?? HUH???

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He only knows from which he speaks.

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I agree. World Net Daily, Infowars, America 1st News, whatever the hell Glenn Beck is up to these days…

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I think I’m going to really enjoy reading the comments on this non-story…

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Does he mention which sites/networks are providing fake news?

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I do see a lot of fake news out there. For instance there’s every time this ass hat opens his festering gob, Fox, Breitbart, OAN, Newsmax …

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Santorum is a professional liar - he makes his living by fabricating ‘stuff’ - factually unsupportable crap - that his ‘customers’ want to hear. He has run the numbers and it is obvious to him that there is now no way that he could make a living by honestly telling the truth - no one would pay a dime to hear him speak the objective truth

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Gird your loins. He’ll be a CNN regular for the foreseeable future…

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The usual suspects, generally print outlets based in big cities.

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“CNN contributor Rick Santorum…”

On alternate Earth 453 in the Multiverse, this guy’s refilling urinal cakes in the CNN gents.

And angrily muttering to himself about Chief Justice Obama.

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Santorum is to CNN what for me Maureen Dowd was to the New York Times. The last straw.
CNN promotes lies and liars, kind of like fake news, just not the way Trump and Santorum mean it. We don’t need to hear both sides if one side is a lie.

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What the fuck, CNN? Why?

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It is and he’s it.

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The Che Guevara of the alt right is busy motivating sallow faced neo-nazi shit heads to murder people for showing up to there houses of worship. What else?

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Serious question, though. Let’s magically make me booker for this show. You say, “Matt, everything that Santorum says is poppycock. You should get rid of him.” I say, “Fine, I hate him too. He’s gone. Just as soon as you name me a conservative voice who doesn’t talk poppycock and yet is willing to generally support the GOP and whatever-conservatism-is-today line.” You name a name. “NeverTrumper,” I say. “Won’t work.” This happens four or five times. We’re at an impasse. The trouble is the MSM do, in fact, have a fundamental problem in treating every question as if there’s a legitimate argument for both sides. These days there mostly isn’t, in national politics. Used to be, maybe, decades ago. Not now. But they haven’t adapted. MSNBC, the new media generally have moved on from that. They call 'em like they see 'em. But not the legacy ones. I’m sure if you talked to the on-air figures privately they’d acknowledge it. But the model doesn’t seem flexible enough to solve it. I certainly don’t know an answer. You can’t just have Jeffrey Toobin come on and say, “The president totally obstructs justice, like all the time, and he talks like an idiot too,” and then cut to an empty chair from which emanates an uncomfortable silence. That’s not a political interview show. A talking heads show has to have some sort of tension, or people won’t watch it.

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