I’m not sure if you’ve followed the media critique of Rick Santorum and his wife, Kathy regarding the manner in which they grieved their stillborn son, but it has been generally appalling. Commentary Magazine has this helpful perspective on the matter and good reminders for us as we enter a political season.
First it was Alan Colmes; now it is Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, who went on MSNBC to mock Rick Santorum for how he and his wife Karen dealt with the death of their son Gabriel. (A severe prenatal development led to his very early delivery, and Gabriel died two hours after his birth.)
“He’s not a little weird, it’s that he’s really weird,” Robinson said of Santorum.
Robinson seems completely comfortable lampooning a man and his wife who had experienced the worst possible nightmare for parents: the death of their child. It is one thing to say you would act differently if you were in the situation faced by Rick and Karen Santorum; it’s quite another to deride them as “crazy” and “very weird,” which is what commentators on the left are increasingly doing, and with particular delight and glee.
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I am concerned that it will be very difficult to ever elect a true conservative as long as the media is controlled by the progressive, liberal elites. This is simply another example of the disdain they hold towards people of faith and conservatives in general and how they misrepresent our positions and mock our values.
There are multiple issues with this situation in regards to the media and the American culture:
Grief is not acceptable in the public eye. Other cultures embrace the grieving process with honor and respect for both the dead and those grieving.
There is no clear line of when life begins. The reality that the media cannot make up their minds is troubling. The subjectivity relates to the level of acceptance for the child by the mother.
Life is to be lived quickly in soundbites and suppressed emotions. Otherwise, expect to be exploited and sensationalized.
Santorum is a champion for the pro-life argument and has chosen to live in the cross hairs of the progressive media.
Honor is subjective and held to the perceived opinions of the masses. Which may or may not be reality. Honor is no longer expressed or practiced. Frankly, in general, lack of honor sells better and we’ve been so inundated in it our culture no longer recognizes how dishonorably we live. What is honor, anyway? (rhetorical question).