The CBS newspaper “60 Minutes”, which is currently under fire for a well-rounded hit, aimed at Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, has so far not done a segment on New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, or California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. .
Although Cuomo is fighting for his political life amid allegations by his own attorney general that the governor deliberately underestimated deaths at the coronavirus nursing home, as well as multiple allegations of sexual harassment and charges of political intimidation, ’60 Minutes’ has yet to one of the brand dives deep into its misery. It also ignored Newsom, who is facing a recall attempt due to his coronavirus response, which has been marked by accusations of hypocrisy and his own limitations.
Even prominent Florida Democrats have accused the venerable news program of fueling a false story about DeSantis, who is seen by many political observers as a supporter of the 2024 Republican presidential candidate.
In the segment that aired Sunday, reporter Sharyn Alfonsi claims that DeSantis undertook a pay-for-play scheme with supermarket chain Publix to distribute coronavirus vaccines after donating money to its super-PAC. However, Alfonsi’s segment has echoed comments from DeSantis, which denies the allegation that Publix received special treatment. It also suggested that DeSantis’s priority of the state’s 4.5 million senior citizens to receive vaccines is political, rather than at greatest risk of dying from coronavirus.
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Director Jared Moskowitz, a division of Florida’s emergency management division, a Democrat, dismissed the idea that DeSantis granted special access to Publix as ‘absolute malarkey’. The chain has more than 800 locations in Florida, making it a natural fit to distribute the vaccine.
On Monday, Palm Beach County Mayor Dave Kerner, another Democrat, accused the program of ‘intentional false’ reporting.
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“The reporting was not just based on bad information – it was intentionally false,” Kerner said in a statement. “I know this because I offered to give my insight into the vaccination efforts of Palm Beach County and rejected ’60 minutes’. They know that the governor came to Palm Beach County and met me and the provincial administrator and we asked to expand the state’s partnership with Publix to Palm Beach County. ‘
Although Cuomo’s scandals are not important for ’60 minutes’, the governor of New York was the subject of a friendly ‘Sunday Morning’ interview on CBS in June, at the height of his popularity in the media over his response to the coronavirus. At one point, host Jane Pauley joked with him about a bachelor and what the virus had done to his social life.
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Despite his since reverse invocation that nursing homes accept COVID-positive patients, the mainstream media have praised him and even pushed him as a possible Democratic presidential candidate in 2020 in place of Joe Biden.
In recent weeks, leading Empire State politicians, including Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, have called on Cuomo to resign, though he has given no indication that he will.