“”How Ron DeSantis Won The Pandemic,” was the Politico headline Thursday night, for a big write-up that reads like it was written by the governor’s press office.”
CNN and NYT have also been busy writing DeSantis valentines abt Fla “boom” for a state is drowning in $3B pandemic budget deficit and whose Covid metrics rank in the middle of the 50 states
fact:
“He’s spent the last year trying to silence scientists, rescinding mask ordinances, and doing his best Trump II imitation by playing down the virus' threat, and foolishly placing one million orders of hydroxychloroquine”
it’s not possible for press to set bar any lower for GOP
the CNN piece truly amazing
they quote DeSantis bragging abt his Covid record *in fundraising appeal*
CNN thinks it’s totally normal for GOP Gov to fundraise off 32k Covid deaths
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“There’s a deliberate media movement underway to not use the clear, accurate language to describe Republican efforts to suppress the vote, just like there was a deliberate media movement to not accurately describe Trump as a "liar" for four years.”
“What's driving the media hesitation? Maybe it's because "voter suppression" sounds un-American. It sounds undemocratic, and it sounds like advocates don't support free and fair elections in this country.”
I’m honestly still kinda stunned NYT, along w/ WP, ABC News, tried to do this after 500,000 died on Trump’s watch; pressrun.media/p/good-grief-n…
“Under Trump, the U.S. vaccine rollout was seen as a national embarrassment. Under Biden, it’s become a model for the world, administering nearly 100 million shots.”
“And now the Covid relief bill, which Trump and Republicans failed to pass for ten months, will pump billions into helping communities nationwide vaccinate.”
“Under Trump, the U.S. vaccine rollout was seen as a national embarrassment. Under Biden, it’s become a model for the world, administering nearly 100 million shots.”
this isn’t rocket science, folks
“Denying states money. Boasting about a medicine stockpile that didn’t exist. That’s the ugly Trump record on his dismal attempt to help vaccine Americans. No amount of media whitewashing will change that.”
“there's a self-serving angle to the media's clamoring about a press conference, which journalists glorify as being the pinnacle of presidential communications.” pressrun.media/p/does-biden-o…
“It's odd that the media let Trump lie his way through solo press conferences and now are demanding Biden hold one because that's where presidents are held accountable by the media.”
“It’s hard to miss how CNN is pressing Biden to hold formal Q&A in the name of access. Yet CNN pulled the plug on Biden WH daily press briefings just 4 wks into the Dem's term. This, after feasting on Trump WH press briefings, airing them live and in their entirety, for 4 yrs"