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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,099 posts)
Wed Dec 29, 2021, 03:55 PM Dec 2021

CNN medical analyst rips Sen. Ron Johnson over vaccine comments: 'Most ignorant man in the US Senate

On CNN’s Erin Burnett Out Front Tuesday, fill-in host Poppy Harlow spoke with CNN medical analyst Dr. Jonathan Reiner about all things COVID-19, and got his reaction to comments made by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) on Fox News during their Monday primetime block, regarding the safety and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines.

“We all hoped and prayed the vaccines would be 100 percent effective, 100 percent safe. But they’re not,” Johnson said on Monday. “We now know that fully vaccinated individuals can catch COVID, they can transmit COVID. So what’s the point?”

After playing a clip of Johnson’s interview, Harlow asked Reiner, who advised the White House medical team under President George W. Bush, what he thought of those comments.

“I’d say that he’s so misguided that it makes me wonder whether this is all just an act. And if it is an act, what does that say about what he thinks his constituents want to hear?” Reiner said, later adding. “And if this is not an act, then he is just the most ignorant man in the United States Senate. And that says a lot.”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/cnn-medical-analyst-rips-sen-ron-johnson-over-vaccine-comments-most-ignorant-man-in-the-united-states-senate-073255797.html

Ted Cruz and Jim Inhof are jealous.

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CNN medical analyst rips Sen. Ron Johnson over vaccine comments: 'Most ignorant man in the US Senate (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2021 OP
People get hit crossing the street, Senator gratuitous Dec 2021 #1
Want to know why Republicans get away with it? quickesst Dec 2021 #2
That's a big statement when you consider Cruz and Hawley are there. OnDoutside Dec 2021 #3
If he's worse than Tuberville he should be under professional supervision Alhena Dec 2021 #4
He wasn't spouting crazy conspiracy theories the last time he ran Poiuyt Dec 2021 #5

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
1. People get hit crossing the street, Senator
Wed Dec 29, 2021, 04:01 PM
Dec 2021

That doesn't mean it's pointless to look both ways before stepping off the curb. Nitwit.

quickesst

(6,280 posts)
2. Want to know why Republicans get away with it?
Wed Dec 29, 2021, 04:36 PM
Dec 2021

Because when your constituency consists of a majority of people who are willfully ignorant, and whose priority in life is to "Stick it to the Dems", it's a slam dunk. Like I said in another thread, Democrats don't need to resort to the traitorous tactics of the right-wing. All they need to do is just tell the truth, but with more anger, and be ruthless about it. The grand poobah knows there is enough material to work with.

Poiuyt

(18,129 posts)
5. He wasn't spouting crazy conspiracy theories the last time he ran
Wed Dec 29, 2021, 05:31 PM
Dec 2021

I have a strong feeling he won't be reelected next year.

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