The Left is very much going after their own for daring to not toe the line on supporting President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate. CNN host Jake Tapper on Friday questioned whether the president had taken on the right tone when it came to the "scolding tone" he had on Thursday when blaming the unvaccinated.
WATCH: Tapper Rips Biden for Speaking Out Against the Unvaxxed: 'I Don't Think Scolding is the Approach' https://t.co/2yC1GYmgiC pic.twitter.com/O1a26ZwMOX
— Tommy moderna-vaX-Topher (@tommyxtopher) September 10, 2021
"There's also a real choice that the president has here. There is the question of coercion, and there is the question of persuasion. And you see him moving from persuasion to coercion. He took on a scolding tone talking to the people who are unvaccinated, talking about how people's patience is running out, talking about this mandate," Tapper said, raising such concerns while on "New Day."
Tapper and host John Berman had a back and forth as to how "predictable" Biden's mandates and the reaction from Republican governors was.
"And I don't know as a matter of politics, unless, of course, the goal was to get all these Republican governors and politicians to come out against this, I don't know that that was not predictable because obviously a lot of Republicans who have been on the pro science side of this are eager to show their bona fides with the base by standing up to this mandate," Tapper continued.
Berman responded that "it was absolutely predictable. And the answer may be that he was willing to take the blowback because he felt, and the White House felt it would get that many more people vaccinated."
Multiple Republican governors have said that they would file lawsuits against the Biden administration, to which the president responded for them to "have at it."
Tapper brought up the idea that there would be court challengers, as he offered "there are legitimate constitutional questions about whether or not this mandate on businesses, not the mandate on the federal government, but whether or not the mandate on businesses will withstand a court challenge, which I am of course anticipating there will be."
Of particular concern is how the Biden administration through the Department of Labor, using Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), will issue a new rule mandating that private employers with more than 100 workers have a vaccine mandate or have their employees submit to testing at least once a week. Those in violation could face a fine of $14,000 per violation.
Tapper did suggest though that there could be standing for such a case, citing a past Supreme Court case. "There are questions about whether this goes beyond OSHA's regulatory authority, whether or not this violates the interstate commerce clause," he said. There is a Supreme Court case, Jacobson v. Massachusetts, that would seem to suggest maybe there is a standing for this. One person's liberty cannot override everyone else's liberty."
While Tapper did are it a point to say "there is politics of this," he also spoke about "beyond [the] politics of this," that "beyond that, I think there are legitimate questions about whether or not President Biden has the authority to do this."
"I'm not saying it's unconstitutional. I'm just saying there is a debate to be had, and there are enough skeptics on the Supreme Court that I don't think anybody can stand here and say with any confidence that this will withstand the scrutiny of this Court," he later said.
People are upset that Jake Tapper is acting like a real journalist. https://t.co/RKsCCwGV9F
— Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com (@stillgray) September 10, 2021
In other words, Tapper made some thoughtful points, and people absolutely lost their minds.
This is some seriously dumb "both sides" dumbshit from Jake Tapper. People infecting other people with a deadly disease ARE ALSO THE VILLAINS. https://t.co/bwlsvDnhCh
— Tommy moderna-vaX-Topher (@tommyxtopher) September 10, 2021
Memo to Jake Tapper:
— Duty To Warn ?? (@duty2warn) September 10, 2021
We love yah buddy, but you’re wrong.
It’s not possible to be “too hard” on the unvaccinated @jaketapper
Ok Jake Tapper @jaketapper how would YOU get more people vaccinated? Hmm? I’ll wait.
— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) September 10, 2021
Jake Tapper is wrong. If anything, @POTUS has not been hard enough on the unvaccinated.
— Brad Beauregard Jr ???? (@BradBeauregardJ) September 10, 2021
President Biden is doing what needs to be done to save lives and protect the United States during a pandemic and Jake Tapper has become nothing more than @CNN’s version of Chuck Todd, a miserable paid propagandist. End of Ted Talk. Good morning. ??
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) September 10, 2021
Maybe Jake can send them some candy and beer to entice them to get vaccinated.
— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) September 9, 2021
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WTF happened to Jake Tapper?
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) September 10, 2021
He used to be watchable.
As a refresher, Biden's Thursday remarks, after which he took no questions, included such lines as being "frustrated" with those who are unvaccinated. "We’ve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin. And your refusal has cost all of us," he said later in his remarks about the unvaccinated.
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