Santorum To Make Gore-Stye Documentaries — About "Radical Islam" And "Leftists"

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Santorum To Make Gore-Stye Documentaries — About "Radical Islam" And "Leftists"
By Eric Kleefeld | bio

Almost-President Al Gore proved that onetime politicians can successfully remake themselves as documentary film-makers. Now another ex-politician is trying to get in on the action: Defeated Senator Rick Santorum.

The former Pennsylvania Senator, who was defeated in a landslide last year by Democrat Bob Casey Jr., plans on directing two Gore-style documentaries, the Allentown Morning Call reports. Santorum's planned documentaries — which are still in the initial planning stage and have yet to be funded — will be at the other end of the political spectrum from Gore's, to put it mildly.

According to the Morning Call, Santorum is planning as an hour-long work that will "explore the relationship between radical Islam and the radical leftists in various countries around the world, including Latin America." The second, Santorum says, would be a more ambitious project to "change the culture of America."

Santorum's larger goal is to pitch himself as a conservative voice trying to change American culture, as a counterweight to Gore and Michael Moore — two names so loathed on the right, that evoking them could help Santorum raise the money for his projects. "That is what the left is doing and doing it in a big way, producing a lot of left content for Hollywood, and even not just out of Hollywood," he said. "Even independent films are now more and more left-wing driven, whether it is Michael Moore or Al Gore."