Was Santorum’s tantrum phony?

Did you see the presidential candidate Rick Santorum lose his cool with a New York Times reporter? If not, you can watch it above. It was a trivial incident, really, but we live in a trivial media age in which politicians think that embarrassing moments are something to boast about. Losing your temper shows that you are human, rather than a politician. Santorum and his spinners have tried to whip up the little row for all it’s worth ahead of his ‘last chance’ primary in Wisconsin. Santorum’s anger, they say, shows he is a ‘real Republican’ — i.e. not like the fake Mitt Romney. Rick doesn’t mind sticking it to the evil liberal media, you see. His campaign team has even sent out a fundraising email in his name that begins: ‘I’m not afraid to take on the New York Times.