Special Report anchor Bret Baier reacts on America Reports
Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier joined America Reports on Tuesday and analyzed CBS News 60 Minutes newsmagazine s story on Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, amid a firestorm of criticism that the network selectively edited the governor s remarks and offered a slanted piece overall.
DeSantis was joined by otherwise unlikely allies in top Sunshine State Democrats in blasting CBS for the story, which appeared to connect the state s choice of Publix Supermarkets as vaccine hubs to a $100,000 political donation the company made to Friends Of Ron DeSantis.
The Democratic chief of the Florida Department of Emergency Management, Jared Moskowitz, as well as Palm Beach County Mayor Dave Kerner, reacted to the piece by claiming it did not portray the truth about the governor and the vaccine rollout.
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“60 Minutes” should have stopped digging that hole when it comes to the deceptive hit job that they did on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. They should have just said, “Sorry, we were mistaken,” even though we all know it wasn’t a “mistake.”
Instead, as we reported earlier, they doubled down and stood by their claims.
That’s antagonizing the parties involved other than DeSantis including Publix and the two Democratic politicians who have debunked “60 Minutes” claims.
New emails between “60 Minutes” and Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office shows indicate just how much of a hit job the show was. They suggest while they asked for responses that they really weren’t interested in actually presenting the responses but were just going to go with the narrative they already had.
By Emma Riley | April 7, 2021 | 12:30pm EDT
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). (Getty Images)
(CNS News) – After CBS’s
60 Minutes ran a segment on Sunday that edited the answer given by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) about COVID vaccine distribution in the state, Palm Beach County Mayor Dave Kerner, a Democrat, released a statement describing the
60 Minutes report as “intentionally false.”
“I watched the
60 Minutes segment on Palm Beach County last night and feel compelled to issue this statement,” said Kerner on Apr. 5. “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
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Ron DeSantis Says CBS Wanted to Smear Him and Florida Amid 60 Minutes Controversy
On 4/7/21 at 4:37 PM EDT
Amid controversy over a recent
60 Minutes segment, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis criticized CBS for editing out facts that ran contrary to the story that he gave Publix preferable treatment for the COVID-19 vaccine because the supermarket chain donated to his PAC.
The
60 Minutes report, which aired on Sunday, was criticized by two Democratic officials and DeSantis for being untrue, but the network stood by its segment. DeSantis said there were going to be consequences for the report, but didn t give specifics, and that the reason Florida was being targeted was because of its innovative and very successful vaccine rollout.