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Monday, April 05, 2021

Now this is what I call bipartisanship

Last nite on FOX News I saw Mark Levin interview Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Let me just say the Governor has developed quite a reputation. He fully reopened Florida and ended many of his gov't mandates in his state and perhaps a model for where many states can direct their states as this pandemic appears to be on the wane.

Sadly that also makes him a target. There are many who want him to be so wrong. And having not watched 60 Minutes for many years, a network TV news magazine I used to respect his words are being distorted and I see here that many in his home state are taking umbrage.

Why I said bipartisanship? Because even in these very divided times we're in a Democrat and at that works in DeSantis' administration who is a Republican comes to defend the Governor and his administration's efforts with the Publix grocery chain.
The segment featured reporter Sharyn Alfonsi ambushing DeSantis at a press conference last month and aggressively questioning him using a misleading narrative about the way that he has responded to the coronavirus pandemic. “60 Minutes” deceptively edited the interaction to remove nearly the entire portion of DeSantis’ response in which he thoroughly answered Alfonsi’s question and defused the central point of the segment.

Alfonsi tried to suggest that Publix, the largest grocery store chain in Florida, had engaged in pay to play by donating money to DeSantis’ campaign in exchange for being awarded a contract to distribute vaccines in the state.

“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,” Publix said in a scathing statement slamming the “60 Minutes” segment. “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.”

Former Florida state Representative Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat, slammed “60 Minutes” over the segment, saying that DeSantis’ office did not push for selecting Publix. Moskowitz is the director of Florida’s Division of Emergency Management and has overseen the state’s response to the pandemic, “including rolling out the vaccine distribution and ensuring masks get to front-line workers,” The Sun Sentinel reported.

Well, this shouldn't be a huge surprise shouldn't it? When a dishonest piece of reporting is shown it's being called out. The reporter for 60 Minutes had a dishonest agenda and made it seem as if there was a pay-to-play scenario here. Well I'm from Illinois and I know what this means. Thankfully Gov. DeSantis had an answer recorded for posterity and not the answer as likely seen last night on the long-time news magazine. This is what I will share with you and not whatever edited version that was broadcast. [VIDEO]


h/t Newsalert

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