[ April 19, 2024 ]
Ron DeSantis is perhaps America’s best governor. Floridians should thank their lucky stars that it is Ron DeSantis who is in charge of Florida, and not that corrupt sleaze Andrew Gillum.
Despite DeSantis’ superb handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, CNN is attacking him viciously and relentlessly. They are trying to drive his approval ratings down. That is because CNN knows that it will be much harder for President Trump to win Florida, if DeSantis’ approval ratings are underwater.
CNN would also like to destroy any chance of DeSantis even considering a run for POTUS in 2024. Totally despicable, but that’s CNN. The people of Florida must get behind Ron DeSantis whole heatedly. We need a popular Governor Ron DeSantis campaigning for President Trump all over Florida this fall.
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— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) May 5, 2020
In Florida we took swift action to protect our elderly and vulnerable residents in long-term care facilities. Thank you @seanhannity for highlighting these efforts. pic.twitter.com/AgcmyDcHXs
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) May 5, 2020
CNN Uses Coronavirus Double Standard To Slam Republican Governor
CNN is playing the long game, trying to hurt a successful Republican’s future. To CNN, this isn’t about COVID-19, it is about November 2020 and 2024.
By The Federalist, May 05, 2020
Our health and economy are not the only things suffering under coronavirus. Media and political hypocrisy and partisan double standards are at crisis levels.
The important role of a free press is being jettisoned to achieve leftist political outcomes. When a free press debases itself in this way, the public loses confidence in the press and devolves to cynicism. This is hurting health policy and the body politic.
Expecting every politician to have gotten everything right from day one would be patently unfair. They’re operating with limited information and looked at predictions we now know are demonstrably wrong.
The news problem has been applying different standards and coming to different political conclusions when looking at the same data. Our national crisis is not the time for petty partisanship, especially from our press.
A Tale of Two States—and One ‘News’ Service
Compare CNN’s COVID-19 coverage in California to Florida and you’ll see the problem. Here, on April 10, is Editor-at-Large and political reporter Chris Cillizza on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis: “Unfortunately for Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the fight against coronavirus has exposed the fact that he may simply not be up to this moment in history.”
The basis for “the fact” the governor is not up to his job? DeSantis’s statement, “I don’t think nationwide there’s been a single fatality under 25. For whatever reason it just doesn’t seem to threaten, you know, kids.”
Cillizza pounced. He cited the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) showing five people younger than 25 years old have died from COVID-19. Three were under 15. With 330,000,000 people in the United States, that means a full 0.000002 percent of the country had died of COVID-19 while under 25.
Cillizza neglects the larger point, which DeSantis correctly made: the virus has a much greater effect on older people. The CDC’s Provisional Death Count on April 23 showed 23,358 had died, and only three younger than 15: 99.99 percent were not the kids DeSantis spoke of.
Despite DeSantis prefacing his statement with “I think,” 99.99 percent wasn’t good enough for CNN. DeSantis was off by 0.01 percent, consistent with CDC findings, and understood by 99.99 percent of his audience—just not by CNN’s editor-at-large: “The governor of ANY state” Cillizza wrote, “shouldn’t be making statements like ‘the data has been 100% consistent’ if he, uh, doesn’t know that with 100% accuracy.”
Cillizza concludes his “news” story: “Moments like this one are clarifying. When a fearful and anxious public turns to its government for guidance and leadership, there’s nowhere for people like the governor of a state to hide from the massive responsibility.”
That’s true. This moment clarifies not just how politicians are doing, and where their biases are, but also of those covering them. CNN is OK publishing an obvious hit piece in a time of national crisis. Their editor wants “a fearful and anxious public” to turn to its government for guidance. Where, if not Florida, should they turn for bold leadership and accurate foresight on this crisis?
CNN on California
Consider this praise article a day earlier, lauding California and its governor, Gavin Newsom. Newsom was first to order statewide restrictions; he ordered millions of masks; he over-acquired ventilators; California leaders took it seriously and tens of thousands of lives were saved.
The article does not explore why, just a few days before the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s projected “peak resource” day, Newsom would send ventilators out of the state. It doesn’t remind us that, on March 18, the governor wrote President Trump that 25.5 million Californians could be infected, with some 5 million being hospitalized.
The governor was trying to increase California’s 20,000-plus hospital beds to 100,000 beds. But by March 20, the governor’s head of Health and Human Services confirmed the governor’s numbers were off, based on bad modeling. On April 23, the IHME predicted a total need of only 2,503 beds, with only 33,261 cases statewide.
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13 Comments
3 years ago
FAKE NEWS cnn really sucks.
3 years ago
3 years ago
Reply to
Halal Bacon
Crooks and pro-jihadi criminals all around.
CNN and MSM canonises this pro-jihadi/pro-illegal immigration RINO while Egyptian media expose him for being Leading supporter of Muslim Brotherhood in America and Middle
east http://offtrade.net/cnmnews/msm-canonises-jihadi-mccain/
Its absurd and farcical how MSM Lies and brainwashes American citizens
3 years ago
Reply to
Halal Bacon
I always thought that was they look you got, when the Ritalin or whatever childhood drug they were given to fix their mental imbalance, wasn’t working.
3 years ago
Reply to
Bill Taylor
Several generations raised on “pharmaceuticals”…..as they get into middle age and older….there will be all kinds of “new conditions” afflicting them that will enrich the drug companies beyond the their wildest dreams.
3 years ago
Being a Floridian, the Crossover, Desantis, made in the Hispanic,Cuban,Black white,Demographics
Was Earned and Still Earning
MANY people will come Forward, and Bamboozle His Name, Makeup,and flat out Lie about Him.
but the Majority, Still see him as an Honorable Man making ‘Right On Point’ Decisions
andrew gillum, Highlighted That, FLORIDA PEOPLE were the ones who also made a ‘Right On Point” decision as well
While the 100% Media threw everything Negative,and lies,at Him, the Majority saw right Through it.
As a Politician,He’s Young
As far as Wisdom and Honor Goes, He has Old Man Positivism, and he’ll need it
He Is Gonna be Slammed,Slandered and will need lots of Backing
Because, the Lost and Depraved LEFT, NEED/ WANT Florida. AND “””CNN is playing the long game, trying to hurt a successful Republican’s future. To CNN, this isn’t about COVID-19, it is about November 2020 and 2024″””
TRUMP 2020 and BEYOND……
3 years ago
The media is crucifying governor that is successfully combating a virus that has all but destroyed the elderly population in New York. While the man that would be governor is posing nude for the cameras, in a drug induced stupor, laying in a puddle of his own vomit.
3 years ago
De Santis would be the ideal president to follow Donald Trump in 2024 — he is a Christian, he loves Israel, he is a passionate patriot, he dislikes Muslims, he has a beautiful wife who shares his ideas — there could be nobody better.
3 years ago
Reply to
Kriemhild
If he was the nominee….I would vote for him. And I don’t live in Florida.
3 years ago
President Trump was brilliant when he refused to use his office to control the states’ responses to the virus. He gave the Libtard states the “opportunity” to show their true Fascist/Marxist selves. He gave the Freedom loving states the right to show what freedom looks like.
Now, if the people in the Fascists states don’t wake up and get rid of these criminals…..these anti-Constitution enemies…..then they get what they voted for and have no cause to complain.
And, no doubt, there will be years long investigations into WHO, the Chinese, and people like Fauci and Birx…..who have long been in the inner circle of the enemies of America.
3 years ago
We’re going to VOTE for Ron DeSantis again CNN, So stick your opinion where it’s been viewed for a long time now Up Your 6…………Communist party member.
