Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday that CBS’s long-running newspaper “60 Minutes” had brought itself into disrepute by a “political story” about his handling of the coronavirus vaccine that goes against reality, to encourage.
DeSantis said on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” that his words during a segment with correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi were “misleadingly edited” to portray the vaccination plan for senior citizens of the state with Publix supermarkets as nothing more than a political corporate donor to repay.
The Lakeland, Fla.-based grocer, also slammed ’60 minutes’, calling the reports’ absolutely false and offensive ‘.
Host Tucker Carlson also played Alfonsi’s clip, followed by the full video of DeSantis’ exchange during a press conference hosted by the CBS program.
DeSantis said his agreement with Publix had nothing to do with a six-figure political donation, and that several Florida Democrats came to the defense and confirmed his version of the agreement.
He told Carlson that in Palm Beach County, which was at the center of the controversy, leaders in the strong Democratic district calculated that 90% of its senior civilian population lives within 1.5 miles of a Publix.
While the eastern half of the province is along the dense I-95 corridor and has several Publix sites, the western tip is sparse and agrarian.
DeSantis said that ’60 minutes’ left out the important context because its government, due to the lack of existing options, had set up a separate and unique vaccination site in the town of Pahokee, about 20 miles east of Clewiston – not affiliated with Publix. not.
“[What’s] lost in this is that we have now vaccinated 3.5 million senior citizens. We are the first state to say that we do seniors first. We are not going to follow the recommendation of the CDC. What we did worked, ‘he said.
CRITICISM BLAST ’60 MINUTES ‘FOR’ FALSE NARRATIVE ‘WHICH DESANTIS INVOLVED THE PUBLIX IN PAY-BEFORE-PLAY-SUBJECT SCHEME
“They did not want to discuss it. Clearly, they have processed the background selectively. They tried to act as if there was a conspiracy with Publix. ‘
“They ignored the fact that I met with the mayor, a Democrat, who said who did ’60 minutes’ is a bunk bed. ‘DeSantis added that the head of state’s version of FEMA too.’ is a Democrat, and also came to his defense on the matter.
‘They did not tell you we are doing an African American church [vaccine] floats before Publix gave a single shot. They did not tell you that hospitals are taking shots from the third week of December – because it does not fit the story. They do not believe in facts. It was a political story, ‘he smoked.
He accused CBS of not talking to key Palm Beach County officials, who, though Democrats, would “blow up their story” – namely Dave Kerner, the county’s mayor.
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Kerner also defended DeSantis on the matter, as Fox News reported earlier.
Host Tucker Carlson suspected that it was only a matter of time before Democrats and the media would focus on DeSantis to try to undermine him – citing the exodus from the pandemic from alleged poorly governed states like California, Michigan and New York. – while Florida rather enjoyed an influx of new residents.
“I did not watch the program because it is sad to see something like ’60 minutes’ deteriorate,’ the host added.