T. Becket Adams at The Washington Examiner drew up a list of people shocked, shocked, that Scott Walker punted on a “gotcha” evolution question at a London Q&A.
“Scott Walker dodged a question on evolution. That was dumb,” The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza said, linking to an article he authored on the governor’s’ dodge.
“How does serious person duck evolution?” National Journal’s Ron Fournier asked.
Huffington Post political reporter Christina Wilkie characterized the Republican governor as “boldly uninformed.”
Meanwhile, Politico’s Ben White responded to headlines regarding Walker’s “punt” with a simple: “Wow.”
Adams noted that these same liberal journalists don’t blink when liberal politicians punt on gotcha abortion questions. Conservatives are "climate deniers" or Darwin deniers, but when liberals are baby deniers? The media can only laugh along with them when that hardly tricky matter of science comes up.
In 2013, John McCormack of the Weekly Standard asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to explain how she could denounce Dr. Kermit Gosnell and yet oppose efforts to ban abortions performed after 20 weeks of pregnancy, she “punted” the question.
“What is the moral difference between what Dr. Gosnell did to a baby born alive at 23 weeks and aborting her moments before birth?” McCormack asked.
“You're probably enjoying that question a lot, I can see you savoring it,” Pelosi said as some among the gathered reporters laughed heartily. She vaguely denounced Gosnell and said “Next question.” It's lame to argue she's not running for president, so it's less important or shocking or "uninformed" than Walker.
Adams noted that mong the reporters who laughed at McCormack's question to Pelosi, according to the Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway, was Jeremy Peters of The New York Times. That same reporter wrote (as part of a team) about how the Republicans are struggling with “core conservative voters” on the science of vaccinations after the measles outbreak in California....as if it’s not the lefties who dominate California that are among the strongest opponents of vaccines.
“The politics of medicine, morality and free will have collided in an emotional debate over vaccines and the government’s place in requiring them, posing a challenge for Republicans who find themselves in the familiar but uncomfortable position of reconciling modern science with the skepticism of their core conservative voters,” Jeremy W. Peters, Richard Pérez-Peña, Nick Corasaniti and Kitty Bennett reported in an article titled “Measles Outbreak Proves Delicate Issue to G.O.P. Field.”
It happened again with Pelosi just last month, when our sister site CNSNews.com asked a similar question, if a 20-week-old baby is a human being. Again, she punted:
CNSNews.com asked: "Is an unborn child 20 weeks into pregnancy a human being?"
Pelosi responded: "You know what, what we're talking about on the floor of the House is something that says politicians should determine what effects the health of a woman, her life, her health, and the rest. I don't think it's up to politicians to do that. And that's why we are very overwhelmingly opposing what is going on on the floor of the House."
Asked again by CNS, Pelosi kept skipping over the baby’s humanity, asserting that when “one of the Republicans stood up and said: 'Nancy Pelosi thinks she knows more about having babies than the pope,' Yeah, Yeah. That would be true. So, in any event, this is up to women, their conscience, their God, their doctor, their fate, their survival. And that is what the decision should be.”
The baby deniers know that the liberal media won't trouble them about the science of viable babies in the womb at eight or nine months along aren't really human beings until the "mother" decides it's a human.
