Santorum mega donor wonders if Obama’s teleprompters ‘are bullet-proof’

By Stephen C. Webster/Raw Story

In an interview featured Wednesday night on Fox Business, retired hedge fund manager Foster Friess, the largest donor to super PACs that had formerly supported ex-Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) for president, made a distasteful comment about guns being aimed at President Barack Obama.

“There are a lot of things that haven’t been hammered at because Rick and Mitt have been going at each other,” Friess said, according to The Los Angeles Times. “Now that they have trained their barrels on President Obama, I hope his teleprompters are bullet-proof.”

The paper said that he immediately back-tracked on that remark, and later told ABC News that he regretted the statement.

While most Fox Business feature interviews are published to the channel’s website shortly after they’re aired, video of Friess’s comments was nowhere to be found more than 18 hours later, even as fresh clips appeared online from the Fox Business Thursday morning shows.

Friess, who’s spent almost $2 million supporting his favored candidate this election season, said in the wake of Santorum’s concession this week that he would begin supportingformer Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R) instead.

He previously made waves when he said that women should use tablets of aspirin “between their knees” as a contraception device, instead of solutions offered by modern medicine. He made the statement in furtherance of Santorum’s proposal to ban all birth control and prosecute doctors who help women terminate pregnancies.

Romney, while not as extreme as Santorum on women’s issues, still claims he wants to “get rid of” Planned Parenthood, the largest non-profit network of women’s health clinics in the nation. He’s also claimed that as Governor of Massachusetts, he fought to remove mandates for contraception coverage by private insurance — but that’s simply not true.

Today, Romney insists he’s a “pro-life” conservative who opposes all abortions, but he’s also told voters in 2002 that he’s refused to “have a label” in the abortion debate, and swore to uphold “pro-choice” policies. Despite his ever-changing positions on women’s health issues, Romney trails Obama tremendously in recent polls of American women.

New Jersey Gov. says he wants to ‘take the bat’ to a 76-year-old widow

By David Edwards

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) begged reporters Wednesday to "take the bat" to a 76-year-old lawmaker for collecting a pension and a paycheck.

Democratic state Sen. Loretta Weinberg, a widow, said she was forced to begin collecting her pension after her financial advisor invested all her savings in Bernie Madoff's ponzi scheme.

"After a major financial setback resulting from my so-called 'Financial Advisor' investing all my money (including my IRA) with a man I never heard of (read: Bernie Madoff) a colleague suggested that I would most likely qualify for my pension,"Weinberg wrote in a blog post.

"Though I never went in to public service to make money, I am grateful for this income at this time of my life, because of the situation Bernie Madoff created for me," she said.

Christie became livid at Weinberg when she was quoted by The Star-Ledger as saying he was guilty of double standards. At the time, Christie had not yet spoken out against Essex County Executive Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. for receiving a pension from the same job where he was also receiving a paycheck.

"That's just gamesmanship," Christie said at a press conference. "As you can see from folks like Loretta Weinberg, who by the way, if you guys don't give Loretta Weinberg the hypocrisy award..."

"I mean can you guys please take the bat out on her for once?" he asked reporters. "The hypocrisy meter has got to tilt on her."

Christie, who is known for his trademark rants, also recently told a teacher to quit after she criticized his attacks on the teachers union.

The video below is from The Star-Ledger, uploaded April 13, 2011.