CNSNews.com has a bit of a thing for Rick Santorum.
Earlier this year, an interview CNS editor in chief Terry Jeffrey conducted with Santorum got lots of attention — though for a Santorum statement someone else found, not anything CNS originally reported about it.
This week, though, CNS has flooded the zone to uncritically report the pearls coming out of Santorum’s mouth:
- In an Oct. 10 article, Jeffrey details Santorum’s insistence on “Fox News Sunday” that it is “simply not true” that being black is the equivalent of being homosexual.
- An Oct. 10 article by Matt Cover was also derived from Santorum’s “Fox News Sunday” appearance, this one featuring his assertion that “every Mormon he knows shares his values–except Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.”
- A third Oct. 10 article, by Fred Lucas, promotes Jeffrey’s latest Obama-bashing hobby horse, regulations in health care reform that purportedly forces Catholic institutions to cover “sterilization and contraceptives, including drugs that cause abortions.”
As we’ve pointed out when Jeffrey raised the issue, the drugs that Jeffrey and Lucas are talking about don’t cause abortions according to the medical definition of the word.
Santorum is a Catholic — just like MRC chief Brent Bozell and (by all appearances) Jeffrey, which may explain why CNS has been pushing right-wing Catholic issues like contraception of late.