{"id":393153,"date":"2021-04-06T15:58:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T19:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=393153"},"modified":"2021-04-06T15:58:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T19:58:37","slug":"cbs-doubles-down-defends-60-minutes-after-smear-of-desantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cbs-doubles-down-defends-60-minutes-after-smear-of-desantis\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS Doubles Down, Defends \u201860 Minutes\u2019 After Smear Of DeSantis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcbs-doubles-down-defends-60-minutes-after-smear-of-desantis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=393153&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1223238999-1024x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday, CBS doubled down after the network\u2019s \u201c60 Minutes\u201d program was widely criticized for a hit piece targeting Florida GOP governor Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for CBS told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/news\/60-minutes-stands-by-controversial-publix-report-says-desantis-presser-comments-were-cut-for-clarity\/\">Mediaite<\/a>, \u201cAs we always do for clarity,&nbsp;<em>60 Minutes<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/news\/60-minutes-slammed-for-deceptive-report-on-ron-desantis-for-giving-vaccines-to-publix\/\">used the portion of the governor\u2019s over two-minute response<\/a>&nbsp;that directly addressed the question from the correspondent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday\u2019s edition of \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d the program elided key sections from DeSantis\u2019 reply to CBS\u2019 Sharyn Alfonsi, who accused DeSantis of briefly permitting a limited number of Publix grocery stores in Palm Beach County to deliver Covid-19 vaccines before other drugstore chains after Publix contributed $100,000 to his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis noted that Publix was the first company to volunteer to deliver COVID-19 vaccines, but \u201c60 Minutes\u201d cut that out of the response they showed.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor&nbsp;Dave Kerner<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>of Palm Beach County, a Democrat, blasted \u201c60 Minutes\u201d for its edited version of DeSantis\u2019 response, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fl-democratic-mayor-60-minutes-ran-intentionally-false-report-on-desantis-omitted-info-that-kneecaps-their-narrative\/\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported. &nbsp;He stated,\u201cI watched the \u201960 Minutes\u2019 segment on Palm Beach County last night and feel compelled to issue this statement. The reporting was not just based on bad information \u2014 it was intentionally false. I know this because I offered to provide my insight into Palm Beach County\u2019s vaccination efforts and<em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>60 Minutes<\/em>&nbsp;declined. They know that the Governor came to Palm Beach County and met with me and the county administrator and we asked to expand the state\u2019s partnership with Publix to Palm Beach County. We also discussed our own local plans to expand mass vaccination centers throughout the county, which the governor has been incredibly supportive. We asked and he delivered. They had that information, and they left it out because it kneecaps their narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have confronted this pandemic for over a year. Our residents, like all Americans, are tired. And the media is making it worse. They are hellbent on dividing us for cheap views and clicks. \u201960 Minutes\u2019 should be ashamed,\u201d Kerner continued. \u201cI thank the Governor for supporting the residents of Palm Beach County. Because of his efforts, working in coordination with Palm Beach County officials, over 275,000 seniors in our county \u2013 which is over 75% of the total senior population \u2013have been vaccinated. I am proud of how our county and state leadership have executed on this important mission, and the results speak for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire <a href=\"http:\/\/v\">noted<\/a> that former Florida state Representative Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat, and the director of Florida\u2019s Division of Emergency Management who has overseen the state\u2019s response to the pandemic, as the Sun Sentinel&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/florida\/fl-ne-placeholder-state-broward-20210215-ab3ef7wvevh6vg2zf2fywgiwxm-story.html\">reported<\/a>, echoed, \u201c@60Minutes I said this before and I\u2019ll say it again. @Publix was recommended by [FL Division of Emergency Management] and [Florida Dept. Health] as the other pharmacies were not ready to start. Period! Full Stop! No one from the Governor[\u2018]s office suggested Publix. It\u2019s just absolute malarkey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cbs-slammed-for-smearing-ron-desantis-on-60-minutes-one-of-the-more-blatant-political-hatchet-jobs\/\">Numerous figures in the media condemned<\/a> \u201c60 Minutes\u201d for its deceptive editing.<\/p>\n<p>Publix <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/publix-democrat-state-official-blast-absolutely-false-and-offensive-cbs-60-minutes-smear-of-desantis\">issued<\/a> a statement blasting Alfonsi\u2019s claim that it donated to DeSantis\u2019 campaign to score a contract to distribute vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe irresponsible suggestion that there was a connection between campaign contributions made to Governor DeSantis and our willingness to join other pharmacies in support of the state\u2019s vaccine distribution efforts is absolutely false and offensive,\u201d Publix said. \u201cWe are proud of our pharmacy associates for administering more than 1.5 million doses of vaccine to date and for joining other retailers in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia to do our part to help our communities emerge from the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, CBS doubled down after the network\u2019s \u201c60 Minutes\u201d program was widely criticized for a hit piece targeting Florida GOP governor Ron DeSantis.A spokesman for CBS told Mediaite, \u201cAs &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311751,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1223238999-1024x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"CBS Doubles Down, Defends \u201860 Minutes\u2019 After Smear Of DeSantis","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1223238999-1024x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"CBS Doubles Down, Defends \u201860 Minutes\u2019 After Smear Of DeSantis","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}