MSNBC Contributor: ‘Rick Santorum is a Homophobe and a Bigot’
- Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:02pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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MSNBC contributor Jimmy Williams lashed out at Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum on Now with Alex Wagner Tuesday, culminating with the accusation that the former Pennsylvania Senator is “a homophobe and a bigot.”
Wagner began the segment by presenting to the bipartisan opinion panel an excerpt from a December 27 New York Times editorial board piece on Texas Rep. Ron Paul, that said Ron Paul “disqualified himself for the presidency by peddling claptrap proposals“and ”opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.” Williams immediately took the opportunity to shift the conversation to some of his more general and aggressive opinions.
“I find it utterly fascinating, when white people think they know how black people think,” said Williams, who is a senior strategist for United Republic, an anti-Citizens United organization. Williams’ odd observation was in reference to claims of controversial comments on welfare made by Santorum Sunday. When discussing entitlements at an Iowa town hall event, Santorum reportedly said “I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money. I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money and provide for themselves and their families.”
In video of the event it is not clear whether Santorum actually said “black” people, or simply stumbled over his words. ABC News video of the controversial comment at (2:10):
After Williams’ first noteworthy remark, he engaged in a back-and-forth with panelist S.E. Cupp, where his rhetoric only sharpened:
“I find it absolutely fascinating when men think they know how to tell women what to do with their bodies,” Williams added. “What in God’s name are these people thinking?”
“Look, this is taken completely out of context,” Cupp responded.”Rick Santorum talks about social economics all the time.”
“That was the only thing he ever talked about in the Senate, was abortion” interrupted Williams. “When was the last time Rick Santorum ever had an abortion”
“He talks about how two-person families are better economically for the country,” said Cupp. “He talks about how conservative social policies are better for white people and for black people.”
“Hang on, I take great offense to that as a gay man making plenty of money,” interjected Williams once again. “I can’t go raise a kid as well as a mom and a dad can?”
“That’s not what he just said— you’re taking things out of context,” Cupp insisted.
“That’s what he says all the time!” Williams shot back. “Rick Santorum is a homophobe and a bigot. Let’s call it what it is.”
In an interview with Sean Hannity on FOX News Monday night, Santorum could not confirm or deny the “black people” comment because he did not recall it, and hadn’t heard “the context of the question.”
“I haven’t heard it,” said Santorum. “All I can say is that I don’t single out any one group of people. That’s one thing I don’t do. I don’t divide people by group or race or class.
“I condemn all forms of racism,” he added.
Raw Story Video of the heated debate on MSNBC, and host Alex Wagner ending the conversation by presenting “In that comment, he’s singling out black folks in particular,” as if it were fact:



















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stratomaster
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:45pmSantorum has won my vote for sure!
I wont watch msnbc but I bet the guy complaining likes the boys.
Report Post »PoliticiansRCrooks
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:53pmSantorum is unelectable.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:58pm@POLITICIAN…
Report Post »Oh, and who thought a Black Radical Socialist would be President? — No one is Unelectable!
HumbleMan
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:59pmThe irony is that if we reach the degree of tyranny toward which the Democrats are leading us … the homosexuals will be among the first to feel the cold force of the iron-fist.
Santorum or Bachmann would tolerate and protect these people … real communism will crush them.
Report Post »P C BE DAMNED
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:03pmInstead of these people being the perversions they are with less than 2% of the population molesting more than 98% of children molested. We now have honorable men and women being labeled as homophobe and bigot and haters and many other derogatory names. Can you not see what is happening. hell all our parents must have been monsters to teach us Queers were nasty people. You know they were not wrong. The whole world is wrong. Thank you God for right and wrong which never changes.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:14pmSantorum, in a moment of clarity has proven himself and his supports to be bigots and racists. S.E. Cupp in her defense of Santorum has only proven, what the left has said about Conservatives like Santorum, that if you boil down their message, they are not more than racists speaking in code to hide their true feelings.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:54pmENCIN: Just love the bit about conservatives ” speaking in code to hide their true feelings.” Reminds me of Obama’s pledge to “to change America.” That was sure a coded pledge ! Who could have imagined what he had in store for America ? Or maybe that Lefty ” 99% versus the 1% ” baloney which when boiled down amounts to one big Bad Math Big Lie ! Oh, those Democrats..they know how to use those secret codes, all right …. or the “ evil corporations ” which is a code for “ we aim to destroy capitalism”…or “redistribute” which is a code for “let the Marxist sate begin”…oh, the codes…
Report Post »Twinspeedr
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:58pmWeird, I didn’t know Jimmy Williams was gay…
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:15pm@ LUKERW
Report Post »“Oh, and who thought a Black Radical Socialist would be President? — No one is Unelectable!”
Excellent point.
teamarcheson
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:40pmIs Homophobe Anything Like Hetrophobia, the hatred of sexually normal people.
Homosexuals everywhere hate normal people and that is Hetrophobia.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 9:05pmJimmy..Jimmy..Jimmy! You
Report Post »“I find it utterly fascinating, when white people think they know how black people think,” said Williams…
Yes we do, Jimmy, and here’s why:
We “Whites” judge Blacks by what they do (indiscrimminately attack ‘us’ at fairs), and by what they actually SAY, such as these pillars of “tolerance.”
J Wright, Farrakan, Sharpton, JJ Jackson, the CBC, M Waters, Shiela Lee Jackson, etc….
such as……… Blacks at S Philly HS attacking Asian students, and Blacks in Philly attacking Whites in the Center City area.
Yep, we do know what they think, and they don’t have to say a damn thing, you idiot!
Secret Squirrel
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 12:26am.
He wasn’t a homophobe and a bigot until he was tied for the lead in Iowa.
Suddenly, MSNBC discovered his shameful past.
Too bad they can‘t find Obama’s grades, writings from college, or anyone who knew him.
Yep, I’ll support Santorum.
Report Post »DLanassa
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 1:49amA phobia is a fear. I don’t know of anyone that is afraid of homosexuals. Adamant, Vehement or even indifferent, not phobic.
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:36amLibs, arent you getting tired of “Homophobe and a Bigot”. Really??? Is that the best you can do??? How about arguing the issues.
obama is destroying this country. Debt to GDP in now 103% and nobama care hasnt even kicked in yet., nor has the $1.2 Trillion increase nobama is asking for now.
Report Post »no_more_harkin
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 2:37pm@Encinom
Report Post »“I find it utterly fascinating when white people know how black people think”.
It’s almost like that comment was directed right at you liberals who claim to have some devine clairvoyance who bend and twist the meaning of messages to your liking.
It so much easier to insult, call names and belittle then to face the facts, isn’t it, Encinom.
HippoNips
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 3:37pmHe says “make /buy people lives”
Not “make black people”
Report Post »ACLUHater
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 4:43pmI have no idea how blacks and gays think. But I know all too well how many of them act.
Report Post »veteran2
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 5:50pmWarped minds like his probability show he slept with his mother too long.
Report Post »michael48
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 7:03pminsanom…another “wanna be anything but white” loser lib…
Report Post »NIPPOHIPS
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 6:24pmSantorum hates blacks.
Report Post »Drakkhanlord
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:41pmam getting 15 ad attacks on ghostery…w t f blaze…?
Report Post »notreally
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:39pmLook, no matter what we do these liberal buttheads will stigmatize us. I don’t care anymore.
Bring it on. I’m ready.
Report Post »TAXEVERYONE
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 7:39amGo Riick go!
Report Post »Wurlitzer28
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:37pmThis is right out of the instructions issues by the Journ-O-List during the last election where the media was instructed, if all other attacks fail to play the race card even if no real racism existed.
There is no way on earth the MSM will allow their communist puppet to be defeated regardless of the damage obomination has inflicted on the country.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:16pmSantorum let his racist beliefs slip. He did himself in, no need for the race card.
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 9:16pmEnicom – And you left wingers don’t have racist beliefs? LOL
Report Post »spirit of freedom
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 12:34am@encitard,
Report Post »lets check through history and see which side dems, or repubs were the racist’s.- dems caused the civil war when lincoln (republican) got elected cuz they knew slavery was gonna go bye bye. what did they do? john wilkes booth (demoncrat activist) shoots lincoln and kills him. almost all assasanations were on republicans by demoncrats. later in history after repubs gave the right to vote and be counted as a full citizen the demoncrats started the KKK! this is the point in history after MLK was murdered, that the demoncrats like to claim that the parties switched sides… yea right. thats when the dems found a “new” way to enslave the blacks. in the past it was for cotton. now it would be for votes. but this time the working population would foot the bill. those generous Demoncrats found it in thier hearts to give “free’ housing, food, and clothes to them to keep them on the system. what would they have to pay back? nothing of any value except thier VOTES! when will the people ENSLAVED to these bastards figure it out? i guess it is just easier to collect the bribes in exchange for thier votes. The slavery goes on….. check out bill whittle on you tube (why vote republican) he walks you though the FACTS of history on how we got to where we are now very efficiently. the whole thing is about 9 mins. i dare you to refute his facts.
Mr.Fitnah
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:36pm“I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money. I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money and provide for themselves and their families.”
OH the hate :eyeroll:
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:42pmAmen, the civil rights act was no more civil or right than civil justice is civil or just. It’s just 2 different names for the same played out plan to re enslave the blacks, with the added benefit of eventually enslaving the middle class and poor whites also.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:53pmRand Paul said it best: Civil Rights Laws caused Blacks to become forever identified as a seperate group from All Americans… rather than stimulating their incorporation as would have happened naturally!
Report Post »barber2
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:45pmThe Discrimination Card is now used to undermine the time honored definition of marriage , to destroy grading standards in schools, to lessen discipline in schools, to foster voter fraud, to allow citizenship benefits to illegal aliens which in turn destroys budgets, to weaken our border control to name but a few. Probably won’t be long before prisoners are playing the Discrimination Card for a Get Out Of Jail Free Card. What was once a viewed as necessary has now mushroomed into destructive. Much like the unions.
Report Post »CPAMBA
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:33pmI’m not a fan of Santorum, but I do see blatant hypocrisy here. On the one hand they question Santorum’s ability to get into the minds of a certain group of people, but have no problem with their own ability to get into Santorum‘s mind and interpret that he’s a bigot and a homophobic. I think I see a bigot here, but its not Mr. Santorum.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:43pmName calling, lies, voter fraud and deception are the only cards they have, they have to play them.
Report Post »Drakkhanlord
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:33pmHouse to hold hearing on Obama visa ‘abuses’
Report Post »http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/house-hold-hearing-obama-visa-fraud/288791
Dosrios
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:41pmHope it’s true… an honest and unafraid judge, finally ?
Report Post »Drakkhanlord
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:51pmam hoping same thing…maybe some actual justice.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:32pmHey Santorum, your about to get Cained….. Get ready !
Report Post »barber2
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:21pmCharacter Assassinations by the Democrats: it‘s the new 60’s….
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 11:41pmTrue…Rick Santorum is proving to be another threat to the Progressive choice for the GOP candidate….Mitt Romney. He must now be destroyed like every other threat to Romney. Lord knows the progressives cannot win on Mitt’s record. They cannot win against a true conservative. So the torches and pitchforks must be pulled out again to destroy Santorum too!
Report Post »This is why I cannot vote for a Romney Presidency!
lukerw
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:32pmIf the Left hates him… he’s my Guy!
Report Post »PoliticiansRCrooks
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:54pmThe left hates every one. They hate Paul, They hate Santorum, they hate bachman but they LOVE Romney.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:05pmPOLITICIAN : You were right. The Left HATES everything and everyone who isn’t also a HATER. They want to take stuff, character assassinate, smear, lie, Occupy, intimidate, and annoy. That is why they like Alinski, redistributing other people’s stuff, Marxism, and the Arabs. They are all united in one big package of HATE.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:15pmWell said, LUKERW
Report Post »barber2
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:20pmLUKERW: And I also share your sentiments! The Left’s hatred is so destructive and so very noticeable. Am sure that the LA arsonist is another angry guy…
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 9:14pmThe more the left wing hates you, the more I’m a supporter of that person and the bigger the threat you are to the left. They don‘t go after anybody who isn’t a threat to them.
Report Post »SMACKD0WN33
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:30pmMy kind of people. Sanitarium 2012 !!!
Sieg Heil!
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 11:43pmGo back to reading your copy of Der Sturmer!
Report Post »uzi4u2
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 12:07pmSo when Santorum says he wants blacks to stand on their own two feet and work to make themselves better, it’s racist, but to give them hand-outs and free things to keep them in line is ok? How can blacks have any pride in their lives if the liberal/progressives won’t let them stand up? Tell me this, with all the free food, money, housing, education…etc…etc, are blacks or any body that the liberals “help” this way, better off today than 50 years ago? civil rights laws mean nothing if people aren’t abiding by them and the social exceptance of blacks is higher now then ever, was it the law or just people “getting along”? If anything more “equal rights” laws being forced on the public will cause more resentment then help which leads to more laws…etc ad nausium.
Report Post »Is this williams person black? if not how can he assume HE knows what blacks think? This is what we have come to, speak out against someone of color, even if they are totally wrong, you’re a racist. Same thing happened when people question obummers’ intelligence, they hate him because he’s black. No..I dislike him because he’s a moron.
possom
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:29pmI remember when msnbc used to be worth watching, now I’d rather read a supermarket tabloid.
Report Post »NOBAMA201258
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:51pmPOSSOM When was msnbc worth watching,they haven’t even made a pretense of being impartial, they are the most ridiculous collection of leftwingnuts outside of university faculty today ! I check it out briefly at times just to see how much lower these slugs can sink in their attacks on Republicans, not even a child with Down’s Syndrome is off limits with these obama-worshippers!
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 11:44pmThey’re actually on about the same level of reality and believability!
Report Post »nappy
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 1:42pmMSNBC started out full of it. I watched it from day one for a few years and they were the worst of the lot from the beginning. I remember in the first few months writing them an email stomping them for being such idiots and I got an email back pleading me not to stop watching. They’re still just as desperate.. just using different tactics.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:26pmWho listens to these people… so you can say he is a bigot or a homophobe.. but what does it make you.. did I miss something or did someone appoint this guy a judge.. We have a whole year of listening to these idiots and from here on out its gonna get ugly.. my question is why does anyone want to listen to them??? I don’t have tv.. (thank God in Heaven) but thiscrap comes up on the Blazewhich is just giving these idiots another voice outlet.. God help us!
Report Post »Drakkhanlord
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:25pm“In Afghanistan, Poppy Growing Proves Resilient + poppy cultivation in Afghanistan in 2011 was up 7 percent from the previous year.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/02/world/asia/in-afghanistan-a-troubling-resurgence-of-the-poppy-crop.html?_r=2&ref=global-home
why we in afghan…?
Report Post »anamefortheblock
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:24pm‘Rick Santorum is a Homophobe and a Bigot’ and he’ll have my vote!
Report Post »conservativesteve1960
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:36pmLMAO mine too
Report Post »Dosrios
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:42pmMe 3 !
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:45pmPlus one, since this stupid port won’t let you post simply +1
Report Post »Xpat48
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:52pmI also.
Report Post »trueblueday
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 11:19pmAnyone that can, try to contribute a few bucks to Santorum’s campaign. (I did.) I hear he definitely needs it.
It’s time to block a RHINO (or two).
Report Post »gmoneytx
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:24pmJimmy Williams is a liberal and democRAT…what’s the difference???
Report Post »NOBAMA201258
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:36pmJimmy looks like the perfect wife/husband? for bonnie frank,doncha think?
Report Post »BubbaCoop
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:20pmHe said “alotof”
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:19pmThose politically correct douchebags on MSNBC need to get over it and cry me a river.
Report Post »AJC1973
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:02pmthey are far from being politically correct… they decide what politically correct is… you cant be politically correct when you call someone a racist and a bigot… being a homosexual doesnt give you the right to call other people names and not back up your claim… “im gay so i can call you a bigot” “im gay so im not a bigot racist” its ok to expound your values but anyone that doesnt agree or you would like to label as not agreeing is a racist or a bigot.. inclusion my arse… politically correct? only when you write the dictionary
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 9:13pmPolitical correctness is a method to silence freedom of speech so that certain groups of people (left wing groups) don’t get offended by anybody.
Report Post »Drakkhanlord
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:17pmSome good news for the Birthers…
Report Post »http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2012/01/judge-malihi-denied-obamas-motion-to.html
rationallyurs
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:16pmanother day in hoodrat hell
Report Post »chips1
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:16pmTwo more things to put in his PLUS column.
Report Post »Ernesto
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:15pmWell MSMBC & Jimmy Williams worthless. Poor little Jimmy, go back and hang out at the men’s restroom.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:13pmProgressive smear, code for Christian.
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:33pmBombing for Jesus with your money…Santorum or Bachman 2012!!!…
Report Post »Drakkhanlord
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:11pmTaliban leaders held at Guantánamo Bay to be released in peace talks deal
Report Post »http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/03/taliban-leaders-guantanamo-bay-deal
jungle J
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:11pm“I find it utterly fascinating, when white people think they know how black people think,” …………….this rat closeted bigot must think that black people are subhuman and that tno one can think like they do…they are human beings!!!! and sane human beings have similar thoughts…only a mentally ill rat and progessive parovacateur would not understand that!
Report Post »drago
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:30pmHey jungle j aka encinom, stfu……..
Report Post »Clara88
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:06pmWell…i heard that Obama is a homosexual and a racist???? Why don’t you talk about THAT??
Report Post »Drakkhanlord
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:10pmthat is true clara…but media will never out obama/soetoro on anything…
Report Post »HKS
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:13pmObama is a ****? Now that would explain some stuff.
Report Post »Drakkhanlord
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:19pmHks ,
Report Post »search obama‘s g a y lover’s…
Clara88
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:20pmBE AWARE POSTERS….
If you say ANYTHING about Soros and his connection to Ron Paul…you will be called names by CAUSE4LIBERTY and your comments will be reported to The Blaze by his friend VECHORIK as SPAM!!! Gee..you have NEVER reported ANY of my comments BEFORE??? Hmmmmm…??
Looks like free speech and the Constitution only applies to the TWO OF YOU!
And…YES…CAUSE4LIBERTY i reported a comment once BECAUSE the Ron Paul supporter called me a Hitler lover, nazi and a racist just BECAUSE i had the numbers 88 after my name and ALSO because i did NOT support Ron Paul.
The Ron Paul supporters on this blog have done MORE to turn people AWAY from Ron Paul than to get more people to support him.
@@VECHORIK….i have seen THIS comment many times on the The Blaze today…hmmm??? You should REALLY report yourself for SPAMMING
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New anti-Romney ad in Iowa starts this morning:
It’s pretty good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=BI9yjhd8b84
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:30pmClara
Report Post »Obama does have a homosexual past, the reason the media wont report on it is because they both have a Marxist Future… Or so they think …
Dosrios
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:45pmHe calls Reggie Love his “body man !”
Hides his aberration in plain sight.
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