Eric Boehlert: The New York Times covers for DeSantis, blisters Biden

[babylonsister]

The New York Times covers for DeSantis, blisters Biden
Whitewashing Florida
Eric Boehlert
47 min ago

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On Sunday, the paper published a striking whitewash of DeSantis’ nearly criminal actions regarding Covid this year. Eying a White House run in 2024, and hoping to tap into the GOP’s anti-science base, DeSantis has played politics with public health. He’s tried to bar schools from mandating masks, stood in the way of hospital vaccine mandates, and demanded cruise lines allow unvaccinated passengers to set sail. He even placed one million orders of hydroxychloroquine in tribute to Trump. And now the state is paying a steep price for his cavalier governance.

“The viral load in Florida is so high right now, there are only two places on the planet where it’s higher,” Dr. Jonathan Reiner recently told CNN. “It’s so high in Florida that I think that if Florida were another country, we would have to consider banning travel from Florida to the United States.”

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Compare that brand of kid-glove analysis to the Times page-one piece by White House correspondent Peter Baker on Saturday, who suggested the Afghanistan troop withdrawal was entirely Biden’s doing, the president used questionable judgement, and Biden’s responsible for U.S. loss of life.

Unlike the DeSantis piece, the Time’s Biden article was overflowing with quotes from his critics, eager to second guess. In fact, the first person Baker quoted was someone who worked on President George W. Bush’s Iraq War team; the war that doomed U.S. to failure in Afghanistan. One week earlier, Baker had been on the front page with another Afghanistan piece, implying Biden was incompetent and lacked empathy, two descriptions the paper won’t apply to DeSantis.

Over this weekend, the Times also published a nasty opinion piece, which called the evacuation of 120,000 people from the Kabul airport “incompetent,” and suggested Biden, whose late son served in the Iraq War, does not “value” men and women who serve our country.

The Times POV couldn’t be clearer: DeSantis is trying his best, Biden’s in over his head.

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https://pressrun.media/p/the-new-york-times-covers-for-desantis

[gab13by13]

1. The MSM controls the narrative,

Kentuck wants the truth to get out but that's pretty hard to do when the MSM hides the truth. The sad thing is it hides the truth even when the truth is obvious. Millions of people believe that the vaccines don't help. Getting vaccinated should be a no brainer.

[rickyhall]

2. Fuck the War Times.

[KS Toronado]

3. WTF? " DeSantis is trying his best, Biden's in over his head."

Doesn't sit well with reQublicOn's talking points that "All MSM is Liberal biased" or "MSM is fake news"

[spanone]

4. K&R

[mn9driver]

5. The big media companies LOVE war. They are not kind to politicians who don't.

Their love for war was obvious in the run up to Iraq. The Times published false stories by Judith Miller. MSNBC fired Phil Donahue because he insisted on telling the truth on his top rated show.

So, we have two things going on here. 1. The MSM is making Biden pay dearly for ruining their lovely war. 2. The only thing the MSM loves more than war is a good horse race. DeSantis is their current pick to run against Biden.

[mountain grammy]

6. kicking with disgust

at the NYT who is so terrifyed of being called "liberal" they will bend over backwards to keep their conservative readers. What bullshit.

[Corgigal]

7. When I decided

this house should have access to one national paper, I thought either the Washington Post or The New York Times. I can handle opinion pieces, because I ignore certain writers. However, the NYT has made too many bad faith articles over the years. So monthly I pay for the Post, The Atlantic and The New Yorker.

All I want is facts, and it’s so hard who decide ho to trust. NYT needs to do better.