{"id":626585,"date":"2021-08-09T16:36:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T20:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=626585"},"modified":"2021-08-09T16:36:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T20:36:44","slug":"cnns-acosta-blasted-for-saying-scientists-should-name-covid-19-variants-after-gop-governors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnns-acosta-blasted-for-saying-scientists-should-name-covid-19-variants-after-gop-governors\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN\u2019s Acosta Blasted For Saying Scientists Should Name COVID-19 Variants After GOP Governors"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fcnns-acosta-blasted-for-saying-scientists-should-name-covid-19-variants-after-gop-governors%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=626585&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\/08\/acosta-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>CNN reporter Jim Acosta says new variants of the SARS-Co-V-2 like the Delta strain now spreading in the U.S. should be named after Republican governors who don\u2019t enforce COVID-19 safety rules, which drew immediate mockery from Republicans on wags on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Acosta singled out Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has opposed a new federal move to mandate masks amid the new outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the nation battles the Delta variant, states remain divided between those fighting the virus and those fighting the science. States led by politicians who know better. Case in point: Florida,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople should not have to die so some politicians can own the libs,\u201d Acosta said. \u201cThey\u2019re not owning anybody. They may end up owning the pandemic because they\u2019re prolonging it. Perhaps it may be time to start naming these new variants after them. Why not call it the DeSantis variant instead of the Delta variant?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could sell beer koozies that say \u2018Don\u2019t Florida My Fauci,\u2019 and use the money to help pay for all of the funerals in the days to come,\u201d Acosta said.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis spokesman Christina Pushaw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/cnn-jim-acosta-ron-desantis-variant-delta-covid\">told<\/a> Fox News that Acosta\u2019s attacks clearly show Acosta is \u201cafraid\u201d of the Florida governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clear that CNN, which apparently functions as a PR firm for the Democratic Party, is afraid of Governor DeSantis,\u201d Christina Pushaw said. \u201cWhy? Because he\u2019s leading our state through the challenges of this pandemic while respecting parents\u2019 rights to raise their kids, workers\u2019 rights to earn a living, and everyone\u2019s right to make their own informed decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeSantis,\u201d Pushaw added, \u201calways made data-driven decisions and worked tirelessly to prioritize seniors and other vulnerable Floridians for the vaccines, instead of relying on the ever-changing, poorly sourced \u2018guidance\u2019 of federal bureaucrats. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>His leadership, she concluded, is \u201cinconvenient for CNN\u2019s narrative of fear over facts, and that\u2019s why CNN is attacking him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News contributor Joe Concha, a columnist with The Hill, also told Fox that Acosta is embarrassing the network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy does Acosta spend infinitely more time talking about Trump and other Republicans than he does the current President and House Speaker in power?\u201d Concha asked. \u201cA look at transcripts of his \u2018news\u2019 program shows he\u2019s truly State TV serving at the pleasure of the Democratic Party in attacking Republicans while barely touching the blue team. He\u2019s an embarrassment and nothing more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others piled on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing CNN\u2019s \u2018logic\u2019 from last year, shouldn\u2019t the new strain be called the Biden variant?\u201d one person wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.1369863013699\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Using CNN\u2019s \u201clogic\u201d from last year, shouldn\u2019t the new strain be called the Biden variant?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePowersThatBe\/status\/1424137957569699842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The establishment media is increasingly worried about DeSantis, who has become a frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination for president. President Biden has targeted DeSantis, saying he has abdicated his duty to Floridians by lifting mask mandates. DeSantis fired back, saying Biden has failed to secure the border, which is leading to the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a guy who ran for office saying he\u2019s going to shut down the virus,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd what has he done? He\u2019s imported more virus from around the world by having a wide-open southern border,\u201d he said.<\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reporter Jim Acosta says new variants of the SARS-Co-V-2 like the Delta strain now spreading in the U.S. should be named after Republican governors who don\u2019t enforce COVID-19 safety &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626585","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=626585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}