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One of the things that has become very apparent over the past year or so is just how much Democrats and the media were determined to paint NY Gov. Cuomo as a hero of the pandemic while painting Florida Gov. DeSantis as a failure. One of the people who was critical in creating that media impression of DeSantis was Rebekah Jones, the woman who proclaimed she’d been fired from her job maintaining the state’s COVID website because she’d refused to alter the data in ways that would make the state look better. Here’s how NPR reported it last June:
Rebekah Jones during an interview with WPTV News in 2020
(Screengrab via YouTube) The former dashboard manager alleges a vast data conspiracy in Florida; not a word of it is true.
This is a story about Rebekah Jones, a former dashboard manager at the Florida Department of Health (FDOH), who has single-handedly managed to convince millions of Americans that Governor Ron DeSantis has been fudging the state’s COVID-19 data.
When I write “single-handedly,” I mean it, for Jones is not
one of the people who have advanced this conspiracy theory but rather is
the person who has advanced this conspiracy theory. It has been repeated by others, sure: by partisans across the Internet, by unscrupulous Florida Democrats such as Nikki Fried and Charlie Crist, and on television, by MSNBC in particular. But it flows from a single place: Rebekah Jones. To understand that is to understand the whole game. This is about Jones, and Jones alone. If she falls, it fal