Fox News contributor reacts to media coverage of Florida's vaccine rollout on 'Fox & Friends.'
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I dont seek validation by
I dont seek validation by
the media.
What I seek is supporting
citizens of my state
some of these networks.
Obviously they have agendas.
They are doing narratives.
They are not trying to report.
Facts anymore
weigh are going to continue
keeping our eye on the ball and
working as hard as we can to
deliver results
Steve there. You have got
Florida governor RON, Desantis
pushing back after a CNN
reporter are appears to block
him for vaccination issues in
Florida.
Listen to this.
What has done with wrong with
the rollout of the vaccine that
we have seen phone lines jammed
web sites crashing
a lot of in, and I think,
if I could finish
excuse me-
you just set what has gone
wrong im answering the
question
are, if I could complete the
question, though,
are you going to give a
speech or ask a question
Steve all right
here with reaction,
Fox NEWS, contributor and media
opinion columnist for the hill,
Joe Concha
Joe good morning to you
good Morning, Steve
Happy Wednesday
as Wednesdays are happy
Steve. Indeed,
one of the things that they are
too long down this Florida, which
is different than the rest of
the country RON Desantis, has
said look. This is a state with
a lot of people who are over sixty five.
I want those people who are over
sixty five and at risk to get the
vaccine,
and so the hospitals are
administering it, and yet she
goes ever a him for what
purpose
well- and you are exactly
right about that.
More than twenty percent of floridas
population is over sixty five and
Desantis says thats the highest
risk area
thats, where we need to go
first.
There is a big demand for it as
a result of these hospitals,
just to be clear, Desantis has
pivoted.
He is now allowing supermarkets
and churches and testing sites
to also distribute the vaccine
to fix the problem,
because this is unprecedented
clearly and there is going to
have to be pivots and
adjustments
that question that was asked
during that CNN exchange. You
see the reporter on the screen
and then you Desantis.
How often do you see, during an
outside press conference, a
gaggle where the reporter gets a
camera and the person being
questioned gets a camera?
The reason why you do that is,
you are looking as the reporter
to do a montage with the sole
intention not to get answer for
the public, but to push a
narrative and to go with viral
thats. The big tell there
another tell is how many times
Steve have you seen CNN? Send
national reporters to press
conferences of Andrew Cuomo or
Phil Murphy here in New Jersey
for me, or Governor Newsom or
Governor North testimony that, as
far as asking them everything
they have been doing wrong with
the pandemic and particularly
the vaccines where everything
has been slow in those states as
well.
Desantis is the target because
a there is an R. Next to his
name and b, they see him as a
possible two thousand and twenty four presidential
candidate. If President Trump
decides not to run
Steve Joe interest is a good
possibility that a lot of people
watching this channel at this
time were not watching CNN at
that time.
So after that report, after
that exchange, CNN host, Brianna
Ceerl said what about
Mr Desantis
well, it was interesting.
This is a pattern with CNN.
Would he saw it with Jim Acosta
during White House Press
conferences or April Ryan, where
they will get into a
confrontation, oftentimes
contrived ones, either with a
Sarah Huckabee Sanders or Sean
Spicer
victim Tom Mizeed, because that
particular person in power or
spokesperson was so mean to
them.
This CNN anchor that you
mentioned a daytime anchor mind.
You then goes on to call
Desantis an explicative on the
air
and again thats not to
inform thats to perform
thats what its become at this
point for many in journalism,
performance art.
So she calls him the a word and
of course that goes viral too
thats. The whole point now its
the look at me too movement for
many in journalism by dropping
explicatives or getting into
confrontations by doing
monologues instead of asking
pointed questions that inform
the Public Steve
Steve at least RON Desantis is
taking the questions
and trying to answer what he
believed was the question, so he
started right there.
But you know to your earlier
point about where the hard
questions here in New York, you
know New York has had a
terrible rollout.
The state
the governor is blaming the
mayor.
The mayor is blaming the
governor.
The state of New York will not
release the number of vaccines
as they have actually put in
peoples. Arms.
The New York Post has been
asking for the last couple of
days. They finally found from the
CDC. Apparently just shy of
three hundred thousand doses have been given to
New Yorkers,
which is one thousand five hundred toes for every
one hundred thousand new Yorkers.
That is not very efficient.
No, its not
and the governor is never going
to be asked about that, because
the governor happens to have a
brother that has a prime time
anchor spot on CNN.
So therefore, he gets a pass
and thats the conflict of
interest that we are talking
about
anyway. Steve got to go taking
down the Christmas lights today
I held out for as long as I can
you never want to be that guy in
the neighborhood.
I have a feeling another week or
two
Steve. That day is today twelve days.
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