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Palm Beach County Gives COVID Update
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Gov. Ron DeSantis defended his coronavirus vaccine rollout following the report on 60 Minutes.
Said DeSantis: if they’re going to come down here and smear our efforts or smear me or smear great companies in my state, I’m going to hit ‘em back, right between the eyes.
Gov. Ron DeSantis embarked on a retribution tour this week after the CBS News program “60 Minutes” tried to paint his COVID-19 vaccination efforts with the Publix supermarket chain as a pay-to-play scheme.
In a stop at the Capitol on Wednesday, DeSantis took reporters through a PowerPoint presentation headlined, “Facts vs. Smears: Debunking false & defamatory partisan attacks by 60 Minutes.”
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
…CNN’s media reporters, normally reliable critics of all things Republican, sound skeptical of it.
The story, by correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, suggested there was a possible link between the [$100,000] donation [by Publix to DeSantis] and the state’s partnership with Publix stores for vaccine distribution a serious issue of foul play, if true.
But, beyond spotlighting the public finance records, “60 Minutes” never offered any substantive evidence to support the significant assertion and link the donation with the partnership.
“60 Minutes” doesn’t care. They’re standing by their story or at least their much-criticized redaction of DeSantis’s answer when he was asked by a CBS reporter to explain himself. Via Mediaite:
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