FEBRUARY 22, 2012 9:09PM
John King Fails to Ask Santorum Crucial Follow-up Question in CNN Debate
The point just came in the CNN Republican Presidential debate in which moderator John King asked Rick Santorum about his views against birth control.
Santorum gave a long answer, mostly about the large number of children born out of wedlock, how they are so often in poverty, and how that was ruining our country. He decried children born to children (teens).
A follow-up that asked Santorum if he realized that contraception would help with that problem was logical and necessary. Why, indeed, then, are you against contraception, King should have asked Santorum.
But no such question was forthcoming.
Questions from the audience in these debates are often boring. But this kind of questioning - or lack of questioning - from a professional journalist moderator was plain and simply incompetent.
Santorum gave a long answer, mostly about the large number of children born out of wedlock, how they are so often in poverty, and how that was ruining our country. He decried children born to children (teens).
A follow-up that asked Santorum if he realized that contraception would help with that problem was logical and necessary. Why, indeed, then, are you against contraception, King should have asked Santorum.
But no such question was forthcoming.
Questions from the audience in these debates are often boring. But this kind of questioning - or lack of questioning - from a professional journalist moderator was plain and simply incompetent.
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