WASHINGTON, DC — Former presidential candidate Rick Santorum attacked
the media and "smart people" for not being on the side of conservatives
in a speech to the Values Voter Summit on Saturday.
"We will
never have the media on our side, ever, in this country," Santorum, a
former Pennsylvania senator, told the audience at the Omni Shoreham
hotel. "We will never have the elite, smart people on our side."
The
media "doesn't like the other side," Santorum said. "And not
necessarily, I would argue, because they agree with them, but because
they can influence the country.
"If just a few people make
decisions about what this world looks like, what this country looks
like, then you have people sitting in offices at major media outlets and
Hollywood who think they can deal with a small group of people, to get
them to jump through the hoops they want you to," Santorum said.
Santorum
also criticized the libertarian wing of the Republican party for not
supporting what he sees as the pillars of conservatism: religion and
family.
"When it comes to conservatism libertarian types can say,
oh, well you know, we don't want to talk about social issues," Santorum
said. "Without the church and the family, there is no conservative
movement, there is no basic values of America."
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