Posted on 06/30/2021 4:59:23 PM PDT by RandFan
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel blasted Sen. Ron Johnson (R) in an editorial published on Wednesday, calling the firebrand conservative lawmaker the most "irresponsible representative of Wisconsin citizens" since Sen. Joe McCarthy (R).
"The Republican senator highlighted five people who said they had serious side effects from the life-saving COVID-19 vaccines. Their stories were sad, to be sure, and we don’t doubt their veracity. But they represent only a tiny fraction of the people who have been vaccinated," the newspaper's editorial board wrote. "But instead of encouraging more people to get vaccinated so we can be rid of this plague once and for all, Johnson has chosen to use his taxpayer-financed megaphone to draw attention to a vanishingly small number of people who believe they suffered a serious side effect."
Johnson "has continued to cast doubts about science, research, masks and other public health measures while promoting 'cures' with no evidence behind them," the newspaper wrote.
The largest newspaper in Johnson's home state called him "the most irresponsible representative of Wisconsin citizens since the infamous Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy in the 1950s."
The outlet castigated Johnson for his "past misleading comments," including during meetings with its journalists, and bemoaned his evolution into "a leading Trump apologist."
Johnson sparked backlash earlier this year for saying he did not feel threatened during the Jan. 6 rioting by supporters of the former president but might have if they were Black Lives Matter protesters.
"When it counted most, as Trump lied about the election, Johnson put his own political interests ahead of our democracy," the editorial board said. "Whether or not Johnson believes the nonsense he spews, there is little doubt he seeks to benefit politically from this cynical theater."
Because of his history of making false, misleading or divisive statements, Johnson "is not fit to be your senator," the newspaper wrote.
"As a Tea Party Republican and climate change denier in 2010, he attracted support from the fossil fuel industry. Later, by minimizing the pandemic and touting questionable treatments for COVID, he vouched for a former president’s lies and boosted his own credibility with the Trump base in his home state," it concluded. "Johnson continues to put his own interests ahead of yours. He continues to put himself first and democracy second."
Johnson is easily in the top 5 senators (not saying much I know but there you go..)
SIX MORE YEARS !!
McCarthy was right. The Venona cables proved it.
Ron Johnson a “firebrand”? Oy vey.
Is this one of the Milwaukee newspapers who turned a blind eye to the disappearances of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims because they were all... you know... making “lifestyle choices” ?
McCarthy was Proven to be Right all along, Does it really matter what presstitutes think?
A badge of honor.
The election trashing by journolistas has officially begun.
All they need to do is rig the "election" like they did in 2020...
McCarthy was RIGHT!
Whew, sure glad no one reads newspapers anymore.
A helluva compliment given that McCarthy was one of the greatest and most fearless Senators in American history.
Instead of encouraging more people to get vaccinated so we can be rid of this plague once...
What plague?
“...so we can be rid of this plague once and for all...”
Preventing symptoms is a “primary endpoint” in the vaccine development process. Getting rid of the virus altogether is considered a “secondary endpoint.
With reduced severe symptoms, the coronavirus would pose a lower threat as a pandemic. Then scientists could focus on developing a solution that would reach the full goal of preventing initial infection.”
Course I don’t totally understand this as until they have an endpoint vaccine, it will continue to rear it’s ugly head on every person that took the vaccine as the virus morphs and the ability of the vaccine to work goes away. The vaccine is not fighting just the virus, it is also fighting everything it turns into. And they have been talking about boosters for months generally at the 6 month time frame after the initial.
Sound like a cure? Not for either way. And the endgame effort is not off the drawing board because they can have no way to know what the virus is going to turn into nor the overall power of the current one they are fighting with a vaccine they admit isn’t a cure or how each person reacts to its effectiveness.
Are they really that stupid to think people don’t know any less than they do?
wy69
If this video doesn’t get to you, there’s something wrong. What these people are describing is evil and a horror.
COVID-19 vaccine reactions: Families describe adverse responses to shot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp_zNSEW1wc
Sen. Ron Johnson holds a news conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with families from across the country who share their experiences regarding adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines. The state’s governor, Tony Evers, called Johnson’s roundtable “reckless and irresponsible.”
“Don’t listen to their lies; we have lies of our own”
Bttt!!
Gannett, big corporate journalism.
The newsroom is probably mostly filled by millennials.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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otherwise known as the Milwaukee Urinal.
Its is fit only:
to line bird cages, if you have a bird;
to start a fire in a fireplace, if you have one;
to wrap fish, if you have any.
Other than those uses, its totally worthless lying piece of runny smelly dog poop.
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