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Home Front: Politix
How the '60 Minutes' Hit on Ron DeSantis Collapsed into a Steaming Pile of Fake News
2021-04-07
[BREITBART] 60 Minutes, a long-disgraced news magazine that airs on far-left CBS, launched a political liquidation attempt against Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) Sunday night. By Monday afternoon, this shamelessly dishonest hoax and conspiracy theory had collapsed into a steaming pile of fake news.

According to the long-disgraced 60 Minutes, DeSantis accepted a $100,000 political donation from Publix supermarkets and then awarded Publix with a vaccine contract. In other words: pay-for-play.

Here’s how the hoax fell apart....

It began with the discovery that the long-disgraced 60 Minutes had deliberately and maliciously edited a clip of DeSantis while he answered a round of questions and heckling from disgraced-60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi.

Through this deliberate act of malicious editing, the long-disgraced 60 Minutes tried to make DeSantis look like a fool as he dodged her question. The truth, however, as we saw in the full video, is that he answered her question at detailed length and did so to the satisfaction of any reasonable person.

The full video hit social media almost immediately after the long-disgraced 60 Minutes hit piece aired and quickly went viral.

Then, Jared Moskowitz, Florida’s former head of emergency management and a Democrat, lashed out at the long-disgraced 60 Minutes as liars spreading "absolute malarkey" about DeSantis.

"60Minutes I said this before and I’ll say it again, he tweeted. "@Publix was recommended by @FLSERT and @HealthyFla as the other pharmacies were not ready to start. Period! Full Stop!"

He added, "No one from the Governors [sic] office suggested Publix. It’s just absolute malarkey."
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Posted by:Fred

#11  Quit watching Teevee when Bonanza went off the air. That was a long long time ago...

Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589   2021-04-07 22:21  

#10  I guess the fact that 60 Minutes did a hit piece isn't really news. The real story is that they aren't even trying that hard to hide it.
Posted by: Angstrom   2021-04-07 15:09  

#9  60Minutes <> truth
Posted by: DarthVader   2021-04-07 14:08  

#8  IF (60 Minutes) THEN Is_True := 'False';
Posted by: magpie   2021-04-07 13:51  

#7  Dang, they got that wrong? Sure the next report will be 105% accurate.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-04-07 11:55  

#6  DeSantis for POTUS 2024
One of the few smart honest fearless politicians left in this country
Posted by: Crolutle Grugum8433   2021-04-07 11:47  

#5  CBS is a whore house.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2021-04-07 11:38  

#4  Ron DeSantis calls 60 Minutes report on 'pay-for-play' vaccines a 'piece of horse manure' and slams 'smear merchants' in the media who think they can just 'run over people'
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-04-07 10:01  

#3  Ah, the old squirrel routine of the lying media.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-04-07 08:23  

#2  That's why Trump filmed the interview with CBS and when creative editing was in the air, released the whole thing. If they won't abide by the principle of filming it too, don't do it.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-04-07 07:20  

#1  What, you didn't see the retractions come from CBS on this? /sarc
Posted by: Clem   2021-04-07 05:05  

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