Posted on 04/06/2021 4:48:24 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
60 Minutes provided a prime example of the utter corruption of our nation’s media establishment on Sunday with a smear of Ron DeSantis. – In the story, 60 Minutes fake reporter Sharon Alfonsi accused the Florida Governor of engaging in a “pay for play” scheme in which the Publix chain of pharmacy/grocery stores was awarded a contract to become a distributor of the various COVID vaccines in exchange for a $100,000 contribution to the DeSantis gubernatorial campaign in 2018. 60 Minutes made no effort to explain how, in 2018 when the contribution was made, anyone at Publix could have known about a pandemic that would take place in 2020, but hey, this fake news we’re talking about here – logic and facts play no role. Only the fake narrative matters.
Alfonsi’s piece included film taken during a DeSantis presser in which she accused the Governor and he gave a full and complete answer. Naturally, Alfonsi and her editors at 60 Minutes carefully edited the clip in order to eliminate all of the actual facts of what happened. Take a look:
Publix, naturally outraged, responded to the 60 Minutes smear job with the following statement:
“The irresponsible suggestion that there was a connection between campaign contributions made to Governor DeSantis and our willingness to join other pharmacies in support of the state’s vaccine distribution efforts is absolutely false and offensive,” the supermarket company said on Monday in a statement. “We are proud of our pharmacy associates for administering more than 1.5 million doses of vaccine to date and for joining other retailers in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia to do our part to help our communities emerge from the pandemic.”
Meanwhile, the 60 Minutes smear has created such public outrage in Florida that even Democrats are coming to the Governor’s defense. First, Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat who is serving his 3rd term as Director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, issued this tweet excoriating CBS for its intentionally false smear job:
Next, Dave Kerner, the Democrat Mayor of Palm Beach County, issued this statement blasting corrupt 60 Minutes/CBS crew for its false reporting: “The reporting was not just based on bad information — it was intentionally false. I know this because I offered to provide my insight into Palm Beach County’s vaccination efforts and 60 minutes declined,” Kerner declared. “They know that the Governor came to Palm Beach County and met with me and the County Administrator and we asked to expand the state’s partnership with Publix to Palm Beach County. We also discussed our own local plans to expand mass vaccinations centers throughout the county, which the Governor has been incredibly supportive. We asked and he delivered. They had that information, and they left it out because it kneecaps their narrative.”
Oof.
Note that Kerner had volunteered to be interviewed by Alfonsi, but she refused to talk to him, knowing he would destroy the divisive narrative she was trying to create:
You want to know why I have been writing for 25 years that the utterly corrupt, Soviet-style fake news media establishment is the single greatest threat to our country’s survival? This smear job, designed to divide the people of Florida, is a textbook case.
It is crucial to understand that CBS News and Alfonsi created this false narrative out of whole cloth in an effort to benefit their masters in the Democrat Party. There is simply no question that DeSantis has run circles around all other governors of big population states in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, repeatedly going against the official guidance coming from Anthony Fauci and the CDC ghouls while doing so. Florida’s numbers of cases and death rate from the viral gift from China has vastly out-performed the records of blue states that have slavishly conformed to the federal edicts, and that makes the Democrats quite uncomfortable, especially given Andrew Cuomo’s ongoing scandals and the recall efforts being mounted against Gavin Newsom and Christine Whitmer.
Even worse for the Democrats, DeSantis’s performance under pressure during the COVID crisis has made him the obvious successor to Donald Trump as the GOP’s 2024 presidential nominee. This reality makes him the prime Republican target for media smears like this one on behalf of the Democrats.
Because of this competing dynamic between red states and blue states, the corrupt propaganda media has spent the last year making up a series of false narratives about Florida’s performance in efforts to damage DeSantis, culminating in this despicable smear by 60 Minutes. They do this for one simple reason: The Democrat Party demands it. It’s the same reason why the media mounted a set of smears defaming Texas Governor Greg Abbott when he rescinded his idiotic, useless mask mandate in early March.
The philosophy of the Democrat Party has always, from its very founding, been to divide this country in order to rule it. That’s why it created the Ku Klux Klan following the Civil War, it’s why Lincoln was murdered, it’s why every “great” Democrat president in history has been a highly-divisive figure and it’s why it created BLM and Antifa to serve as its domestic terror apparatus.
The mission of corrupt, Soviet-style propaganda outlets like CBS News, CNN and MSNBC is to serve their Democrat Party masters by keeping us as divided as possible. That’s why they represent a clear and present existential threat to our country.
That is all.
All you need to do is watch Mark Levin’s interview with Gov. Desantis (on “Life, Liberty, and Levin”) to see what a powerful, decent, humble rising star this guy is.
As far as 60 minutes propaganda, they are just doing what leftists always do to those who are a threat to them.
They are lying scumbags.
The only people who watch 60 minutes and tell others about it as if that makes them look intelligent are the same useful idiots that still tell others that they read the New York Times as if that makes them sound intelligent or informed.
They are all ignorant.
Glad to see people are seeing through this stuff.. But they sit and make up lies and no punishment for it. If the shoe was on the other foot there would be law suits.
I hope you all saw what Live from Studio 6B did with this last night. I understand youtube has taken it down. These fellows showed how CBS did the editing the way I’ve never seen before...and the way it should be done EVERY time.
All you need to do is watch Mark Levin’s interview with Gov. Desantis (on “Life, Liberty, and Levin”) to see what a powerful, decent, humble rising star this guy is.
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Which is why the Left, the media, the FBI, will be out to destroy him.
Is anyone selling a fake Russian dossier on this guy,yet?
60 Minutes has been doing this for decades.
You might recall the “unintended acceleration” story about German car maker Audi...
It doesn’t matter to CBS and 60 minutes that they have been shown to be lying frauds....it’s narrative they needed to be out there regardless of the truth....
Within hours of the 60 minutes story, the 2 more likely candidates to run against DeSantis in 2022 are the despicable former Republican Governor Charlie Crist and current Ag Commissioner Nicki Fried....both put out statements on how corrupt DeSantis is by working with Pubix after they made a big contribution to his campaign...
DeSantis appears to be up for the fight, he had better because the MSM, Democrats and every liberal in the country is going to be after him trying to defeat him in 2022 and if DeSantis wins, damage him for any Presidential run he might make...
And, the Dan Rather Award for Lying, Faked Stories goes to...
(drum roll)...
60 Minutes!!
Follow Trump’s lead on interviews with seeBS.
They put many vaccination location in “underserved” areas. So you had a situation were a lot of (white) folks from the suburbs had to go to the ghetto to get their vaccine. That story is not being reported, obviously.
If you are familiar with Palm Beach County where this story took place, you would know that Palm Beach County includes several poor farming towns along lake okeechobee that don’t have a Publix...in those cases Florida used mobile RVs, local health department, Clinics and Black Churches to get the vaccine distributed...
60 minutes tried to claim since no Publix was within 30-40 miles of these towns, the decision to use publix was tainted somehow...
DeSantis refused a sit-down with 60 minutes, proving he’s smarter than our average publicity fawning R politician.
I suggest we start our own campaign and DELETE CBS.
This will battle-test DeSantis, he’ll be ready for 2024 when he prevails.
Trump PROVEN right again, The media is the ENEMY of America.
Publix is Florida’s Grocery Store chain. It has about 60% of the share in Florida. They are great (love their subs), but i doubt they knew that Covid would be around in 2020. A non issue. Nikki Fried - the only statewide Democrat/Marxist in Florida and Charlie Turncoat Crist are the only two with name recognition. Ms Marijuana (Nikki ran on marijuana legalization with John Moron (sorry Morgan) money.) might be without a job in government in 2022 and Charlie’s district might flip in 2022, if Charlie don’t run again for it.
If a smear falls in the world does anyone hear it?/s.
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