TJ WALKER - THE HABIT INFLUENCER - Personal Development | LIVE STREAM

26 Mar 2012 · 1 min

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Short live-stream commentary by T.J. Walker (host of "The Habit Influencer") responding to Rick Santorum's on-camera outburst at a New York Times reporter. Walker summarizes the incident (Santorum called Romney "the worst Republican candidate ever" with disputed context), assesses the political damage to Santorum's struggling campaign, criticizes attacking the press as a generally poor media strategy for non-politicians, and notes that running against alleged liberal media bias can sometimes work for conservatives, though it seems too late to help Santorum in this primary season.

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From New York, here's T.J. walker. Rick Santorum having a complete meltdown on the campaign. Yesterday he blew up at a New York Times reporter saying, stop lying. What you're saying is complete bullshit. Now the issue at hand is Santorum saying that Mitt Romney was the worst candidate ever. He insists that he was talking about with respect to the issue of health care, but apparently one of the times when he was saying that, he didn't attach the word health care in the sentence. So it was perfectly within the right of the reporter to quote Santorum saying mitt Romney is the worst Republican candidate ever. Now here's the real problem for Santorum. His campaign is up against the ropes. Most people in his own party are calling for him to step down. So at this point he just looks pathetic and desperate most of the time. For most CEOs, most executives, most people who aren't politicians. Anytime you attack the media and call them liars, you just look shrill and pathetic. So it's normally a very, very bad media strategy. Even if you feel like you are being misquoted. There is an exception. However, if you are a Republican and a conservative, running against the media and the so called liberal bias of the media can be a highly effective strategy. Unfortunately, the days of that being helpful to Santorum or Gingrich are a little too late in this primary season. I'm T.J. walker.