Skeletal pundit Alan Colmes is just another liberal ghoul
WHAT A HEEL: In an interview on FOX News on Monday liberal commentator Alan Colmes, who – thankfully – has never procreated, ridiculed how Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum and his wife, Karen, dealt with the 1996 death of their newborn son Gabriel, who lived for only two hours. From The Hollywood Reporter:
“Once (voters) get a load of some of the crazy things he’s said and done, like taking his two-hour-old baby who died right after childbirth home and played with it for a couple of hours so his other children would know that the child was real…” Colmes said before he was interrupted by National Review editor Rich Lowry.
“That’s a cheap shot, Alan,” an incensed Lowry said. “To say it’s ‘crazy,' something that’s that personal and harmful as losing a child, and to mock it, to mock him like that, is really beyond the pale and beneath you.”
During the interview, Colmes – leaning back in his chair and crossing his arms – seemed perturbed that Lowry had the nerve to interrupt him.
“I’m interrupting because what you’re saying is contemptible,” Lowry said. “They lost a child, Alan. That’s very serious, and it’s not something you should be mocking on national TV.”
“I’m not mocking the losing of the child,” Colmes fires back, “but what I’m saying is I think it shows a certain unusual attitude to take a two-hour baby home that died to play with his other children.” …
While Colmes never backed off his remarks during the Fox News segment, he apparently had a change of heart later, and tweeted, “Just spoke to @ricksantorum. He and Karen graciously accepted my apology for a hurtful comment.”
Choking back tears, during an interview on "Hannity," Santorum explained that he and his wife introduced Gabriel, who died two hours after he was born in 1996, to their other children before burying him because as a neonatal intensive care nurse for nine years, Karen “taught me, and what she learned from that experience, was that you have to affirm the life of your child. You have to affirm that memory for your children and for you.” His wife was unable to hold back her tears when she was asked about Colmes’ reprehensible remarks at a campaign stop on Monday.
You’ll recall that in 2008, Colmes suggested in a post on his blog, Liberaland, that Trig Palin’s Down syndrome was caused by Sarah Palin not going to a hospital immediately when her water broke so she could fly home from TX to have her baby in AK. The Santorums’ youngest daughter, Isabella Maria, was born with the genetic disorder Trisomy 18. Half of all children with the chromosomal defect are stillborn, and only 10 percent of those who survive will get to their first birthday. Bella has beaten those grim odds and is now three years old. The condition is associated with several congenital heart defects as well as microcephaly and intellectual deficits so Colmes will no doubt find something about her or her parents worthy of his scorn.
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