Skull and bones illuminati12/15/2023 It’s important to note that almost the entire story, a rather lengthy one at 31 paragraphs, is all about Florida and DeSantis. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas are among leaders touting the antibody treatments even as they downplay vaccination and other measures that health officials say can prevent illness in the first place. The rush has been fueled in no small part by governors in Southern states, where vaccinations lag and hospitalizations are soaring thanks to infections caused by the Delta variant. Republican Govs. Here’s the offending LA Times graph verbatim: The White House tried this same trick last month, and got called on it by the Heritage Foundation, where they talk about “low vaccination states” and then lump Florida in with them as if they are related. The LA Times story was riddled with all the hallmarks of partisan journalism: in addition to the unsupportable claim in the headline, it also included a dirty attempt to paint DeSantis and Florida with the broad brush of being a “low-vaccination state,” implying it without actually saying it. Two weeks ago, the Los Angeles Times ran a story headlined “ Anti-vaccine, anti-mask governors push an experimental antibody therapy.” Other media outlets and political operatives have echoed the narrative. In this first installment, we take a look at a demonstrably false media narrative that has started to gain traction to the delight of progressive opponents of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, that he is “anti-mask” and “anti-vaccine,” and the suggestion that Florida is a “low vaccination state.” And we aren’t trying to do anything with our new “Media Check” feature except body check wayward media outlets like a hockey player bodychecks an opponent into the boards. We don’t hide our pro-business, pro-free market, center-right agenda. Here’s this weekend’s Capitolist wrap-up, which we call “The Wrap.”įact-checking websites are a dime-a-dozen these days, and the worst ones are partisan outlets pretending to be legitimate, unbiased news sources. Every weekend, we look at the news stories shaping the conversations in Florida’s business, public policy, and political worlds.
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