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The problem with both Shapiro’s take and the ensuing flame war was that they were both based on fake news, so to speak. According to Los Angeles Times deputy business editor Jeff Bercovici, whose father-in-law took part in the Monday morning event, there never was a “walkout.”
“No one walked off their jobs. There was just a press conference,” he tweeted, after posting screenshots of reports to illustrate how “misinformation sausage gets made.”
How your misinformation sausage gets made: News outlets and commentators across the political spectrum are making hay of the supposed walkout by doctors at a Palm Beach County hospital this morning, in response to Florida's surge of Covid cases among the unvaccinated pic.twitter.com/KIZiVSHUEV
— Jeff Bercovici (@jeffbercovici) August 23, 2021
The doctors involved weren’t even on duty at the time – some had just finished their shifts and others were just arriving – but got together outside the hospital to make an appeal to the public to get vaccinated, according to Bercovici, who added that the media probably went with “doctors walk off the job” because it was the “sexier” framing of the story than “off-duty doctors do a press conference.”
Everyone was so busy coming up with a take that confirmed their priors that they didn't bother to ask if it actually happened.
Christina Pushaw, press secretary to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, brought up Bercovici’s thread to fact-check MSNBC and activists who made the story go viral. There was no strike, hospitals weren't short-staffed, the doctors “went outside for a few minutes this morning” to urge people to get vaccinated, and the whole thing was “completely misrepresented by MSNBC,” she said.
Patrick saysI hope most people can see through this shit.
Most people vote democrat and believe that Trump said 'these fine people' about white surpremacists.
HunterTits saysPatrick saysI hope most people can see through this shit.
Most people vote democrat and believe that Trump said 'these fine people' about white surpremacists.
Most people do not vote democrat. That's why it's impossible to validate the vote.
Was going to say this but maybe if you count by popular vote they may get close to 50% ;)
Information in the article above, explaining where the lies are and what it actually was.