Rick Santorum doesn’t want us on his side — neither as journalists nor as college students.
We’re too smart for him.
“We will never have the media on our side, ever, in this country,” Santorum said during his speech at the Values Voter Summit this weekend. “We will never have the elite smart people on our side, because they believe they should have the power to tell you what to do. So our colleges and universities, they’re not going to be on our side.”
Would he prefer a media unit that was too dumb to report the truth? Because, believe us, it’s a lot harder to be truthful than it is to just make stuff up. Reporters and journalists try their damndest to be fair, to report honest facts and to present all sides of a story — not just “both” sides.
We don’t believe that we have the power to tell you, the reader, what to do. It’s our job to give you the facts and then let you come up with your own opinions and thoughts.
That’s how it works. Sorry, Santorum, if the truth sometimes sucks from your point of view.
That also goes for Michele Bachmann, another speaker at Values Voter Summit 2012.
“Before I start, I just want to say a word about this concept that you’ve heard about called the war on women, the so-called war on women,” Bachmann said on Friday.
“And I just want to say I think it has about as much reliability and truthfulness as Bill Clinton’s arithmetic,“ she said, referring to Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention.
Secondly, the “war on women” is a whole other issue. She wants to dismiss it as if it’s something that’s not happening, that women should feel silly for feeling slighted in any sense by members of, mostly, the Republican Party.
She went on to talk about the current violent riots and protests across the world.
“There is a very real war that is going on across the world, and that’s what I want to take my few moments together that we have this morning,” Bachmann said. “I sit on the Intelligence Committee. We deal with the nation’s classified secrets. And this is a very real issue.”
Do you know what else is a very real issue?
The fact that it’s the same woman who said things like this: “The Muslim Brotherhood has been found to be an unindicted co-conspirator on terrorism cases and yet it appears that there are individuals who are associated with the Muslim Brotherhood who have positions, very sensitive positions, in our Department of Justice, our Department of Homeland Security, potentially even in the National Intelligence Agency.”
She led what some have called an “Islamophobic witch-hunt,” so we think it’s safe to say that we don’t want her in charge of anything, let alone in charge of intelligence.
Maybe you disagree with journalists and what they have to say. And that’s fine. Feel free to disagree with what anyone has to say.
Just realize that we report the facts, whether you like what those facts are or not.
