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Santorum defends use of profanity in response to reporter

By Callum Borchers

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  March 26, 2012

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum isn’t backing off his use of a swear word directed at a New York Times reporter Sunday night, likening the episode to standing up to a bully. “I criticized Romney and Obama for their outrageous health care legislation,” Santorum wrote in an e-mail to supporters. “Predictably, I was aggressively attacked by a New York Times reporter all too ready to defend the two of them, and all too ready to distort my words. Let me assure you, I didn’t back down, and I didn’t let him bully me.”

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