Stephanopoulos Hangs Santorum On His Own Words

[Bark Bark Bark]

Sorry if it's a dupe, but I couldn't find another thread about it here...

Stephanopoulos does what another interviewer would not:

Pandagon has the condensed version:

http://www.pandagon.net/archives/2005/07/how_one_woman_s.html

For the strong-stomached, the full transcript is at ThinkProgress:

http://thinkprogress.org/santorum-this-week/

Here's the fun part:

STEPHANOPOULOS: Let’s talk about something else in the book, radical feminists. A second quote from the book, you say, Respect for stay-at-home mothers has been poisoned by a toxic combination of the village elders’ war on the traditional family and radical feminism’s mysogynistic crusade to make working outside the home the only marker of social value and self-respect.

Let’s get specific here. Name one or two of these radical feminists who are on this crusade.

SANTORUM: Well, I mean, uh, you know, you have, you go, you go back to, um, ah, what's her name, well, Gloria Steinem, but I'm trying to remember, ah, eh, can't remember the woman's name. That's terrible...anyway...

STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, that's kind of an important point. You point this broad brush...radical feminists, village elders...name one.

SANTORUM: There’s lots of--no, there’s lot’s of--well, Gloria Steinem. There’s one. I mean, there’s lots of writings out there.

STEPHANOPOULOS: She’s been on a crusade against stay-at-home moms?

SANTORUM: There’s lots of writings out there, and there is an opinion by the elite in this country across academia, across the media, that stay-at-home motherhood is not adequately affirmed and respected by our society.

SANTORUM: And if you don’t believe that, get a panel of stay-at-home moms here on your show, and you ask them whether they feel affirmed by society, whether they feel affirmed by the culture.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Listen, I can go home. My wife Wendy both works and stays at home at various times.

...GLORIA STEINEM??? That's the ONLY name you could come UP with?

*roaring laughter*

Now there's a guy who's "not your monkey." (Stephanopoulos. Santorum isn't a monkey either; monkeys are better than that. Even the ones who fling their own poop. Ironically, I learned about Stephanopoulos' interview when this very fragment was aired on The Daily Show sans commentary.)

[opihimoimoi]

1. Who is a Monkey?? Santorum might not be one...more like an sloth

[Swamp Rat]

3. Yer givin' him to much credit.

He ain't no mammal! :D

[Mass]

2. Santorum hung himself - Dont expect Stephanopulos to hang anybody

He could not even if his life depended on it.

[ZenDude]

4. Way too easy...

I saw that on The Daily Show as well. Sometimes these right-wingers make it too easy. Like shooting fish in a barrel. :evilgrin: