{"id":949086,"date":"2021-11-01T10:44:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T14:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=949086"},"modified":"2021-11-01T10:44:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T14:44:31","slug":"corporate-media-lies-ron-desantis-office-shoots-down-joy-reids-covid-cop-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/corporate-media-lies-ron-desantis-office-shoots-down-joy-reids-covid-cop-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Corporate Media Lies\u2019: Ron DeSantis\u2019 Office Shoots Down Joy Reid\u2019s COVID Cop Claims"},"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%2Fcorporate-media-lies-ron-desantis-office-shoots-down-joy-reids-covid-cop-claims%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=949086&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--><p>Governor Ron DeSantis\u2019 office is fighting back against media allegations that the Florida Republican is making special efforts to recruit unvaccinated policemen from other states and \u201cbring deadly COVID into\u201d the Sunshine State.<\/p>\n<p>The governor\u2019s office, in an interview with The Daily Wire, refuted comments made by MSNBC host Joy Reid, who leveled the charge as she named Governor DeSantis \u201cThe Absolute Worst\u201d on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>On August 17, DeSantis proposed that the state pay a $5,000 signing bonus to police from other states and make it easier for them to receive certification in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTonight\u2019s \u2018Absolute Worst\u2019 is now actually paying to bring deadly COVID into his state. \u2018Come to me, COVID,\u2019\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/transcripts\/transcript-reidout-10-25-21-n1282352\">said<\/a> Reid. She then <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thereidout\/status\/1450976563936301067\">voiced<\/a> a parody recruitment commercial that offered law enforcement officers from the other 49 states the chance to kill Florida\u2019s senior citizen population:<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you big on ordering people to comply, but you hate complying with health mandates yourself? Do you dream of arresting people\u2019s ability to breathe while you arrest them? Well, pack up your potentially infectious self, your badge, and your gun, and come on down to Florida. Take this taxpayer bonus money and enjoy constant interactions with vulnerable senior citizens you can breathe on. Every breakthrough case and ICU admission is the virus of freedom spreading. And don\u2019t forget your sunscreen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Reid said that, although DeSantis specifically pitched his appeal to unvaccinated police, he then lied about it. \u201cOf course, today, because DeSantis has nothing if not consistent, he denied recruiting unvaccinated police, despite literally saying this on Fox News last night,\u201d Reid said.<\/p>\n<p>She then played a video clip of DeSantis saying: \u201cIn Florida, our policy is very clear: We\u2019re going to have a special session, and we\u2019re going to say, \u2018Nobody should lose their job based off these injections.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That quotation says nothing about recruiting police, vaccinated or otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Joy Reid misrepresented the facts of Ron DeSantis\u2019 offer to bring seasoned law enforcement agents to serve and protect his state, which had nothing to do with vaccination status, the governor\u2019s office says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe facts speak for themselves: Governor DeSantis announced this initiative back in August at the Fraternal Order of Police conference, as part of a package of proposals to recruit law enforcement officers from out of state. Vaccine mandates weren\u2019t part of the conversation back then, and vaccination status wasn\u2019t mentioned at all in the governor\u2019s announcement,\u201d DeSantis\u2019 press secretary, Christina Pushaw, told The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>In a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Ron DeSantis\u2019 office is fighting back against media allegations that the Florida Republican is making special efforts to recruit unvaccinated policemen from other states and \u201cbring deadly COVID into\u201d the Sunshine State.The governor\u2019s office, in an interview with The Daily Wire, refuted comments made by MSNBC host Joy Reid, who leveled the charge as she named Governor DeSantis \u201cThe Absolute Worst\u201d on Monday.On August 17, DeSantis proposed that the state pay a $5,000 signing bonus to police from other states and make it easier for them to receive certification in Florida.\u201cTonight\u2019s \u2018Absolute Worst\u2019 is now actually paying to bring deadly COVID into his state. \u2018Come to me, COVID,\u2019\u201d said Reid. She then voiced a parody recruitment commercial that offered law enforcement officers from the other 49 states the chance to kill Florida\u2019s senior citizen population:Are you big on ordering people to comply, but you hate complying with health mandates yourself? Do you dream of arresting people\u2019s ability to breathe while you arrest them? Well, pack up your potentially infectious self, your badge, and your gun, and come on down to Florida. Take this taxpayer bonus money and enjoy constant interactions with vulnerable senior citizens you can breathe on. Every breakthrough case and ICU admission is the virus of freedom spreading. And don\u2019t forget your sunscreen.Reid said that, although DeSantis specifically pitched his appeal to unvaccinated police, he then lied about it. \u201cOf course, today, because DeSantis has nothing if not consistent, he denied recruiting unvaccinated police, despite literally saying this on Fox News last night,\u201d Reid said.She then played a video clip of DeSantis saying: \u201cIn Florida, our policy is very clear: We\u2019re going to have a special session, and we\u2019re going to say, \u2018Nobody should lose their job based off these injections.\u2019\u201dThat quotation says nothing about recruiting police, vaccinated or otherwise.Joy Reid misrepresented the facts of Ron DeSantis\u2019 offer to bring seasoned law enforcement agents to serve and protect his state, which had nothing to do with vaccination status, the governor\u2019s office says.\u201cThe facts speak for themselves: Governor DeSantis announced this initiative back in August at the Fraternal Order of Police conference, as part of a package of proposals to recruit law enforcement officers from out of state. Vaccine mandates weren\u2019t part of the conversation back then, and vaccination status wasn\u2019t mentioned at all in the governor\u2019s announcement,\u201d DeSantis\u2019 press secretary, Christina Pushaw, told The Daily Wire.In a press release, DeSantis promised to \u201cprovide a one-time\u00a0$5,000 payment to law enforcement officers who are new to the profession in Florida.\u00a0These bonuses\u00a0will be eligible to individuals with no prior employment in this state as a sworn law enforcement officer, corrections officer or other institutional security officer. Additionally, the funds are to be repaid to the state if the officer leaves their role prior to 1-year of continuous service.\u201dThe state legislature has yet to pass the package, which would apply the sign-on bonus to all police transferring from other states to local state units and who stay for at least one year, not exclusively to those who have not received one of the COVID-19 vaccinations.\u201cWhen the bonus comes into effect, all law enforcement officers newly hired in Florida will be eligible, regardless of whether or not they are vaccinated,\u201d Pushaw says. \u201cState and local law enforcement agencies in Florida do not ask for the vaccination status of their employees or recruits, because this is a personal medical decision.\u201dWhen asked about allegations that his pitch targeted police around the country who refuse to comply with local vaccine mandates, which includes hundreds of officers nationwide, DeSantis said the headline came \u201cfrom a corporate outlet, which we all know: corporate media lies.\u201d\u201cAssume what they tell you is false and then figure out why they\u2019re telling you a false narrative,\u201d DeSantis advised his listeners \u2014 a line that CNN\u2019s Brian Stelter pounced on, to his regret. \u201cThe reason we\u2019re doing it is because people are being treated poorly in Seattle and Minnesota and New York NYPD. They don\u2019t have the support. They\u2019ve had their funding cut\u201d by their elected leaders eager to defund the police. In \u201csome places they don\u2019t even enforce the law, like in San Francisco, they don\u2019t prosecute people shoplifting. So, you have rampant crime.\u201dDeSantis said he wanted to both support unappreciated police officers and better provide for the safety of his fast-growing state, which added a congressional district after the results of the 2020 census.Some officers fled districts implementing left-wing police \u201creform\u201d policies, including transforming police forces into a \u201cdepartment of public safety,\u201d instituting citizen review panels, and radically reducing the number of cops on the beat.\u201cI was only in the NYPD for about two years. When I was there, I realized very quickly that the job is not what I expected \u2014 only because I wanted to do all these things to help people, but the tools and the laws that were set in front of me did not allow me to do so,\u201d said Officer Matt Spoto, who was recruited from the Big Apple to Lakeland, Florida.He said he could hardly believe a recruiter\u2019s tales about the radically different way Florida values its peace officers compared to liberal New York City. \u201cHe said that you could park your police vehicles in front of your house \u2014 and to me, I thought that was mind blowing. I used to have to lie about what I used to do,\u201d he said. \u201cI used to have to tell people I was like a bartender, because I was, it was almost like I was ashamed to be a law enforcement officer.\u201dThe respect, more than the pay, convinced him to move to the Sunshine State.\u201cI think everybody, regardless of the career that you chose, you want to be appreciated,\u201d he said.The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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