A.G. Gancarski
A U.S. Senator from Florida continues to press the case that the media has a double standard in terms of how it covers the coronavirus and his state’s response.
Sen. Marco Rubio, during a weekend appearance with NBC 6 on Miami, said the “double standard” is making people “distrust” reporting from the “national legacy media.”
“I think there’s also been a double standard, like if you look at during the [presidential] campaign, when Donald Trump would have a rally and people’s heads were exploding on TV saying how irresponsible it was. But when the media declared Joe Biden the winner, there were thousands of people on the street, and nobody said that was irresponsible. So I think it’s important for us to understand here that there is some of this hypocrisy in its coverage,” Rubio bemoaned.
The Senator then focused his critique on the Sunshine State itself, “the way Florida is being covered.”
“Our Governor has been skewered by the media in the State, particularly in the newspapers, but also by the national media,” Rubio lamented.
“But the Governor of New York, a state that has double the death rate of Florida for a hundred thousand residents, their Governor got an Emmy for his press conferences. These are important things to point to because I think they point to a broader problem and that is a constant narrative that is making people distrust what they’re hearing from the legacy national media,” the Senator warned.
These critiques may have the ring of familiarity, as they were workshopped in large part last week on a Fox News Channel hit in which Rubio lashed the “legacy media” for depicting Florida as a “COVID disaster.”
“This is stupid … hypocrisy … people see this stuff,” Rubio warned.
Rubio’s take on the legacy media’s failings mirror that of the Governor himself, who in a recent bout of self-justification of his own on Fox News vented about the “corporate American media” misrepresenting his administration’s efforts on coronavirus.
“A lot of it’s agenda-driven,” the Governor groused to Tucker Carlson last week. “You look at some of these states that have way more per capita cases, hospitalizations, mortality, and you would never know it if all you followed was the corporate American media.”
7 comments
Rosco Beach
December 7, 2020 at 7:58 pm
“Legacy Media?” wtf is he talking about? Why doesn’t he say “Lamestream Media”,
that would make him sound clever like Sarah Palin, who unfortunately is a towering
intellect by comparison. 2024 is going to be a donnybrook in the Republican primary.
Florida will be well represented – to the abject horror of the nation. God help us.
Mike Bates
December 7, 2020 at 11:06 pm
Governor DeSantis is actually doing a very good job with the pandemic.
Raw numbers are meaningless as evidence of the pandemic’s severity. Florida is the third most populous state in the country, so it would be reasonable that Florida would have the third highest number of COVID cases.
But when using the per capita infection rate, which is the only fair metric to use, Florida ranks 25th. Twenty-four states have higher infection rates than Florida! And Florida ranks 16th in deaths per capita – at a rate far below the unconstitutional Democrat lockdown states of New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Illinois, Michigan, and the District of Columbia.
More details are at http://www.TheMikeBatesShow.com/blog/201205-0932
DisplacedCTYankee
December 8, 2020 at 7:54 am
Mike, I think if Floriduh has a “lower infection rate” (I’m not sure) it may be because people can spend more time outdoors.
Palmer Tom
December 8, 2020 at 10:08 am
Perhaps one reason Cuomo was regarded more favorably than DeSantis is that Cuomo admitted there was a problem that needed to be confronted and DeSantis did not.
Sonja Fitch
December 8, 2020 at 3:13 pm
Duffus Desantis is willingly slaughtering Floridians ! Shut down the state til January 5,2021. Open schools January 5,2021. Use a standard for closures. Continuing online learning! But every day missed has to made up during the summer. We have to move to year round til we our kids back on track! Then every 30 days reopen the rest with limits on size mask and cleaning! So schools and others are slowly moving back into a consistent reopening! Our goal has to be 5% by March! Test and vaccinate has to be 60% of Florida population! Spring Break dollars will be our target!
Richard
December 9, 2020 at 9:49 am
“Cuomo admitted there was a problem” how does that make his management better than Desantis. The results matter! NY results are abysmal compared to FL and NY manipulated the stats by moving patients to nursing homes to make his numbers look better (https://nypost.com/2020/07/08/cuomo-sent-6300-covid-19-patients-to-nursing-homes-amid-pandemic/)
NY Politics is as corrupt as it gets.
RD
December 13, 2020 at 9:55 am
A Governor that hides from the media and releases prerecorded video rather than take questions deserves his reputation. He has repeatedly followed the his mentor – DJT and the WH’s instructions over science and common sense to deny, delay, and stay as “business as normal” while the Pandemic rages in his state. To date: over 20,000 Floridians have died of COVID19. (5.6 % of ALL Floridians have contracted COVID under his leadership.) The man is still seen consistently in public without a mask and has actively put legislation in place to prevent mask mandates. (Seen but no questions allowed.) No doubt he and his family will have access to the same very limited extremely high level of medical options that the President and his top enablers are afforded when they get sick. Occasionally going on FOX for “interviews” with those that openly support his views, demanding schools open and people continue to work like normal, while his offices remain closed is the height of hypocrisy.
Looking at the timing of this article, it came right before the police raid on Rebekah Jones. Yes – when guns are drawn and police forget to identify themselves for the first 7-10 minutes of ringing the bell and knocking on the door, it can be called a raid. The intimidation factor is/was high. At least 14 minutes passed before the ringing/pounding/yelling included any reference to a warrant. The police identities were protected 100% in the released videos but the Jones Family’s identities and personal information – Address, phone, license plate #s were not.
If you are unaware, Jones runs an alternate site (funded thru donations), that shows much more information than her original FL dashboard. The information comes from the same sources as the official site, but surprisingly reveals a startling and continually widening divergence from the manipulated numbers on the DeSantis controlled site.
The fact that the Gov had Ms Jones fired, and has since attacked/smeared Ms Jones for trying to release accurate FL COVID19 stats is telling. It is clear that the Admin is plainly targeting Ms Jones.
How is it that a civil/family court judge newly appointed to the bench by Gov DeSantis issues a warrant for a “criminal” case?
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