Right! And when you try to re-enforce your obvious narrative by bringing in other subjects, that only makes it that much easier to point out all the other governors and their corruption as well!
DeSantis for the win
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Right! And when you try to re-enforce your obvious narrative by bringing in other subjects, that only makes it that much easier to point out all the other governors and their corruption as well!
A news story so nonfactual that FOX News had to apologize for it... can't sink much lower than that.
Fox News apologizes ‘for any confusion’ after featuring debunked story about Nashville mayor’s coronavirus data
Tucker Carlson and ‘Fox & Friends’ host Brian Kilmeade lashed out at mayor after local affiliate misinterpreted emails as indicating low virus-transmission figures at bars and restaurants were being suppressed
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/f...-nashville-mayors-coronavirus-data-2020-09-21
Fox News Channel apologized on Monday “for any confusion” resulting from its reporting of a debunked story about the mayor of Nashville, Tenn., supposedly concealing the number of coronavirus cases linked to bars and restaurants because they were low.
The story came from a Thursday report by Nashville’s Fox affiliate WZTV on “leaked emails” that the station retracted late Friday upon learning that they didn’t mean what its reporter thought they did.
Since-debunked report by local station was retweeted by Donald Trump Jr. and led to a call by Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a Republican, for an investigation into Nashville Mayor John Cooper, a Democrat.
The story spread among national conservative commentators as a supposed example of the harm of coronavirus restrictions. It was the lead segment on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Thursday night and “Fox & Friends” devoted time to it the following morning.
A fact-check done Friday by the Nashville Tennessean debunked the WZTV reporting, which was retweeted by Donald Trump Jr. and led to Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a Republican, to publicly call for an investigation into Mayor John Cooper, a Democrat.
The station’s story quoted an exchange between a Nashville health official and a representative of the mayor’s office, where the health expert sought and received assurance that coronavirus data linked to specific bars and restaurants would not be released to the public.
The mayor’s office later said that data was kept private for fear that it could inadvertently lead to the names of people who test positive for COVID-19 being revealed, a violation of federal privacy laws.
Meanwhile, the total number of cases linked to bars and restaurants in Nashville — about 80 in August — was actually publicly revealed at the time, contrary to the WZTV story.
WZTV’s news director, Bryan McGruder, did not immediately return a call seeking comment on Monday. But the station told CNN that “we incorrectly asserted that Mayor Cooper’s office withheld COVID-19 data from the public, which implied that there had been a coverup. We want to clarify that we do not believe there was any coverup, and we apologize for the error and oversight in our reporting.”
In his opening segment Thursday, Carlson called the station’s initial report a “remarkable” story offering “conclusive proof” that political leaders were lying about the coronavirus.
“Hide all good news — that’s the policy,” Carlson said, offering his opinion of political strategy. “Otherwise, the fear might subside and our power along with it.”
“Fox & Friends” host Brian Kilmeade said the next morning that Cooper “has to resign yesterday.”
He suggested that many Democratic leaders, if Joe Biden wins the presidency, would “hand the keys back to every bar and restaurant on Nov. 4.”
On Monday, Kilmeade’s co-host Steve Doocy, noted that the station Fox based its report upon had retracted the story. “We wanted to apologize for any confusion,” he said.
Didn't you post this already?
The previous post outlined the facts in detail showing the reporting was absolutely fake.
https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/desantis-for-the-win.345108/page-158#post-5206629
This post outlines FOX News apologizing for their fake coverage --- a very rare event.
So in summary the article you used in attempt to claim that other local and state governments hide COVID data so Florida is not so bad --- turns out to be complete nonsense.
Whether other local and state governments are having problems with (intentionally or otherwise) data doesn't excuse whether or not Florida is doing something. I don't use whataboutism to excuse any behavior. If something is wrong, it is wrong.
But no one gives a shit about your original post, and no one gives a shit about this one either. No one gives a shit about my post on the subject, and no one gives a shit about your narrative anymore. I still see no evidence of intentional fraud in Florida despite dozens of pages of you shrieking it. I see stupidity, I see poor processes, and I'm sure they exist elsewhere in other states and local governments. You're the only jackass who thinks it only happens in Florida.
So to sum up, no one cares, gwb. Shout at the rain all you want, but your COVID time of keeping everyone afraid is rapidly coming to an end. You've backed the wrong horse.
That's the sweetest victory of all.
200,000 dead Americans to date.... and somehow you believe COVID is a hoax and proven public health policies should not be applied in a deadly pandemic. Sad.
I'm sorry, where did I say that COVID was a hoax? Would you please quote the post I said that in so that I may amend that statement?
I see you ignoring what I did say, of course. Because you've got nothing for that. I wonder if you'll be the last one screaming and shrieking about COVID when the rest of us have moved on, and the virus is only another flu going around, doing next to nothing like the flu tends to do.
Newcomers will stare, confused at the screaming visage of you in the corner while the rest of us nod sadly and say "oh don't mind him. He's still on about that COVID crap. Remember that?"
Reader----that's just 6/100ths of 1 percent of the American population. ---or 1 in every 1650 Americans. Yet, we shut down the world's biggest and best economy destroying millions of lives. Make any sense to you?
Furthermore, only 12,000 of those deaths were from Kung Flu by itself.
And yet it is just getting started.
It is sad to note that back in the days of the 1918 Flu and the Polio epidemic Republicans were the leader in demanding a science-based best public health policy to deal with the health issues and Democrats were the ones trying to hide & ignore everything. Now the roles seem to be reversed. What has happened to the Republican party.