Santorum Aide Mentions "Radical Islamic Policies The President Has"
In an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, Rick Santorum's press secretary, Alice Stewart, said that Santorum was commenting on the president's energy and environmental policies when he said the president was motivated by a "phony theology." However, in her opening answer, she mentioned the "radical Islamic policies the president has."
"Certainly, Rick has said it, we've all said it before. Robert Gibbs took it out of context. He wasn't questioning the president's character," Stewart said. "He wasn't questioning the president's religion. As he said, as he's clarified the statement, he was talking about radical environmentalists. There is a type of theological secularism when it comes to the global warmists in this country. That's what he was referring to. He was referring to the president's policies in terms of the radical Islamic policies the president has, specifically in terms of energy exploration. Case in point, the Keystone pipeline. His radical environmentalist policies caused him to nix a program that would help energy exploration and create jobs in the country, and that is key to helping with gas prices in this country as well as job creation. And what he's going to see as the gas prices continue to rise, his popularity is going to go down with it."
She later called MSNBC to say she misspoke.
"I was talking about radical environmental policies and I misspoke," Stewart told the Washington Post. "I regret it."
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