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Sen. Tom Cotton saying the Associated Press has to account for working in the same building as Hamas and more round out today s top media headlines.
CNN anchor Jake Tapper appears to have acknowledged the conspiracies that were pushed by Rebekah Jones, the fired Florida health official who claimed last year that the DeSantis administration urged her to alter the state s coronavirus data, after he himself helped promote her falsehoods on his show.
Last week, National Review senior writer Charles C. W. Cooke wrote
a devasting report that concluded Jones single-handedly managed to convince millions of Americans that Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been fudging the state’s COVID-19 data.
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It became a tiresome narrative during the Trump years that he was in the back pocket of Vlad Putin and had basically ceded the White House to the Kremlin. Sure, there were all of the actions Trump took against the country, but that does nothing to prove he wasn t a tool of the Russians. Sure, that country floundered financially for years as the US gained energy independence, and Trump took sanctions against their oil industry, but still – Russian pawn!
This is why the move by President Biden to rescind sanctions against a Russian corporation so it can continue with the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, to the benefit of Putin, is so baffling. Just try to imagine the interpretation in the press had it been Trump who gave the Russians more oil benefits after shutting down our own Keystone pipeline and immediately following another oil conduit that was shut down by foreign hackers backed by Russia. If Biden was a plant by Russia, try to ask what
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We reported last week on how prominent Ron DeSantis critic Rebekah Jones was once and for all thoroughly discredited courtesy of an exhaustive investigative report done by NRO senior writer Charles C.W. Cooke. The report thoroughly nuked the fake “data scientist’s” most explosive claims and documented how viciously retaliating after rejection was one of Jones’ most notorious hallmarks.
One big thing that should not be forgotten in the aftermath of Jones’ rather dramatic fall from grace is in just how far the mainstream media was willing to go in propping her up. CNN, in particular, was instrumental in elevating her profile, with anchor Chris Cuomo among those taking the lead in amplifying her false claims, abusing his CNN platform to make his big brother and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo look like a magnificent crisis leader in contrast to the popular Florida Governor.
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