Rick Santorum has gone into full-on attack the media mode. In an interview with National Review Friday, Santorum dismissed the controversy over the words of his super PAC backer Foster Friess, calling it a ginned up story by the media and claiming he’s being treated with a double standard.
As the furor over Foster Friess’s comments about contraception escalates, and the press obsesses over Rick Santorum’s wealthy backer, the former Pennsylvania senator tells National Review Online that he is “not going to put up with it.”
“You know, [reporters] sit there and they say nothing, while for 20 years [President Obama] sits in a church with a guy who is a racist,” Santorum says. “And somehow or another Foster Friess is now who I am? This is just crap.”
“I went at Charlie Rose this morning a little bit for bringing this stuff up,” he says. “They want to talk about contraception. This is how the media wants to frame me. We have to go out there and keep pounding away.”
