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.
1 comment:
I think Santorum's point was that birth control is a sign of moral failure and that his objection to it is because he wants a country where people don't have sex unless they intend to have children.
Which is not based in reality, obviously, but I'm sure he would've rehashed the same answer if pressed.
But the bottom line is the press don't press in these debates. The only good debate in my lifetime was between Santos and Vinick. Sad, but true.
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