NBC Gives Author Platform to Bash Rick Santorum as a ‘Crazy Man’ That ‘No One Would Believe’

Hawking his new novel on Wednesday’s NBC Today, author Josh Bazell launched into a rant against the GOP and Rick Santorum specifically: “If I were to create a character who, say, had been the senator from Pennsylvania…get up at a debate and say that global warming was a hoax and that we had to change the Constitution to limit the rights of gay people. No one would believe that.” [Listen to the audio]

Bazell, son of NBC medical correspondent Robert Bazell, further proclaimed: “And if I said then, you know, that the entire Republican establishment sat quietly through this, no one stood up and said, ‘You know, that’s a crazy man talking,’ it would just seem like I was being biased.” For his part, weatherman Al Roker simply nodded along with the liberal screed, offering no objection.

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Bazell concluded: “If you’re going to approach the Republican establishment, which I wanted to do in a book about sort of belief and the policies that come from rationality vs. irrationality, you kind of have to skirt towards the real.”

As an afterthought, Roker remarked: “But you can probably do just the same with the – on the Democratic side as well.” Bazell assured him: “Oh, absolutely. And in fact, I do a little bit in the book.” However, Bazell refrained from smearing Democrats on air.