{"id":221063,"date":"2021-04-07T01:12:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T22:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cbs-disgusting-smear-may-have-just-given-desantis-another-boost\/"},"modified":"2021-04-07T01:12:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T22:12:56","slug":"cbs-disgusting-smear-may-have-just-given-desantis-another-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cbs-disgusting-smear-may-have-just-given-desantis-another-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"#CBS\u2019 disgusting smear may have just given DeSantis another boost"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#CBS\u2019 disgusting smear may have just given DeSantis another boost<\/strong>”
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In\u00a02004, CBS News<\/a> and \u201c60 Minutes\u201d helped hand President George W. Bush a second term. A story about Bush\u2019s service in the National Guard blew up in their faces when it came out that Dan Rather had relied on amateurishly forged documents.<\/p>\n

Now, \u201c60 Minutes\u201d has done it again, this time with an attack on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that was so \u00adflagrantly misleading, even Florida Democrats are calling it out as a lie. Seventeen years ago, the network at least had enough shame left to push Rather out over the controversy. This time, CBS is doubling down.<\/p>\n

The network news division that once took down Joe McCarthy now treats McCarthy\u2019s methods as a how-to manual.<\/p>\n

The \u201c60 Minutes\u201d story claimed that DeSantis, a Republican elected in 2018, gave a payoff to the Publix supermarket chain by designating it briefly as an exclusive distributor of the COVID-19 vaccine in Palm Beach County. This was supposedly payback for a $100,000 donation to DeSantis\u2019 re-election campaign \u2014 and a burden on Florida seniors.<\/p>\n

DeSantis, a frequent critic of corporate media<\/a>, refused to sit down for an interview, so \u201c60 Minutes\u201d reporter Sharyn Alfonsi confronted him at an Orlando news conference. That was her first mistake, because the entire exchange was captured on local TV, not just the parts that \u201c60 Minutes\u201d aired.<\/p>\n

What \u201c60 Minutes\u201d viewers saw was Alfonsi\u2019s criticism and 18 seconds of DeSantis saying, \u201cThat\u2019s a fake narrative\u201d and offering a few words about meeting with Palm Beach officials. To the national audience, it looked at if he hadn\u2019t offered any facts behind the decision \u2014 just \u201cfake narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n

But CBS cut DeSantis\u2019 detailed, two-minute response.<\/p>\n

The governor explained that Palm Beach County\u2019s mayor had told him that 90 percent of Palm Beach seniors live within a few miles of a Publix, which has 65 stores in the county; that Publix was the only chain ready to go when he tried to get Walmart involved; that CVS and Walgreens were still busy distributing vaccines to nursing homes; and that DeSantis did on-the-ground follow-up with Palm Beach seniors, got positive feedback and had already succeeded in vaccinating 75 percent of them.<\/p>\n

CBS now says it edited DeSantis\u2019 response \u201cfor clarity.\u201d What clarity, indeed.<\/p>\n

Worse, after CBS quoted DeSantis saying he had met with the Palm Beach mayor, it cut to a county commissioner saying he\u2019d never met with her \u2014 implying that the governor was lying about meeting local officials. Palm Beach County Mayor Dave Kerner, a Democrat, says the CBS \u00adreport is \u201cintentionally false,\u201d \u00adbecause using Publix was his idea, and that CBS refused to listen to him before going on air.<\/p>\n

Jared Moskowitz, a progressive Democrat who served as the state\u2019s emergency-management director, says, \u201cThe other pharmacies were not ready to start. Period! Full Stop! No one from the governor\u2019s office suggested Publix. It\u2019s just absolute malarkey.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeSantis\u2019 decision made sense. Publix is a widely beloved brand with 831 stores in the Sunshine state. Many seniors already get their flu vaccines and medications there. Publix is familiar and trusted \u2014 a big consideration in getting skeptics to accept the vaccine. And it was never the exclusive distributor statewide.<\/p>\n

But the national media decided early last year that Gov. Cuomo and California Gov. Gavin Newsom were the COVID-19 heroes \u2014 and DeSantis the villain.<\/p>\n

So, just as in 2004, they scraped for facts to keep the Narrative alive. One attack after another against DeSantis has backfired, yet they try even harder as Cuomo faces \u00adpotential impeachment and Newsom a recall. Whatever they say about DeSantis is usually true of Cuomo, Newsom or both: Newsom has faced scrutiny for giving exclusive vaccine contracts to megadonors such as Blue Shield.<\/p>\n

DeSantis, who often chews out reporters with detailed critiques, didn\u2019t take this lying down. He blasted CBS as \u201csmear merchants,\u201d adding, \u201cthat\u2019s why nobody trusts corporate media.\u201d It could end up convincing voters that Ron DeSantis is the shot in the arm they need.<\/p>\n

Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review.<\/em><\/p>\n

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