Topic: CNSNews.com
For its fourth round of gotcha questions to unsuspecting members of Congress, CNSNews.com interns asked them, "Should public schools and colleges be able to mandate that students be vaccinated for COVID-19?" The senatorial targets this time:
- Josh Hawley (R)
- Gary Peters (D)
- Charles Graaley (R)
- John Cornyn (R)
- Tim Scott (R)
- Ed Markey (D)
- Rand Paul (R)
- Bob Menendez (D)
- John Boozman (R)
- Elizabeth Warren (D)
- Cynthia Marie Lummis (R)
- James Lankford (R)
- Debbie Stabenow (D)
- Raphael Warnock (D)
- Mike Braun (R)
- Ted Cruz (R)
- Sherrod Brown (D)
- Ron Johnson (R)
- Tommy Tuberville (R)
- John Kennedy (R)
Of course, the point of this exercise is to give an opportunity for Republican senators to virtue-signal against mandates while excoriating Democrats who support local decisions and reliance on what the science shows.
Some of these articles added fearmongering about the vaccine: "Since April 21, 2021, over a thousand cases of myocarditis and pericarditis, heart inflammatory diseases, have been reported in young people after getting the COVID-19 vaccine, as is reported on the CDC’s website. However, the CDC is still encouraging children 12 and up to get the vaccine, claiming the benefits outweigh the risks."
Ambushing politicians with gotcha questions might be a good way to pad an intern's resume, but they don't learn much about fair and objective journalism by doing this.
