A slew of MSNBC hosts tried, and failed, to use a photo actually taken in 2019 to attack the state of Florida and, presumably, also its conservative governor Ron DeSantis over crowds of allegedly maskless individuals gathering for spring break.
As Fox News reports:
MSNBC personalities shared a crowded Miami Beach photo to complain about vacationers flouting coronavirus distancing guidelines, but there was one problem: the photo was from 2019.
“Today’s center of the #COVIDIOTS universe is Miami Beach, Florida,” MSNBC analyst Fernand R. Amandi tweeted on Saturday, complete with a photo of a packed beach.
Today’s center of the #COVIDIOTS universe is Miami Beach, Florida. pic.twitter.com/Wo8JeNfDFa
— Fernand R. Amandi (@AmandiOnAir) March 21, 2021
However, MSNBC host Joy Reid, who is one of two hosts on the left-wing outlet’s primetime lineup with a history of fabulism, shared the photo with her 2 million followers and wrote, “That literally looks like a microscopic image of a petrie dish,” complete with sick-face emojis…
That literally looks like a microscopic image of a petrie dish… 🤢🤢🤢 https://t.co/XLg5H1ygXR
— Joy-Ann Pro-Democracy & Masks Reid 😷 (@JoyAnnReid) March 22, 2021
The tweet has been retweeted more than 2,500 times, with some users appearing to fall for it, but others blasted Amandi for spreading the misleading picture and called for it to be taken down.
A professor and MSNBC analyst with 95,000 followers shared a photo from a beach in 2019. He's racked up over 10,000 shares in the process. Nothing will happen to this account for knowingly spreading disinformation. https://t.co/1mXBFMaU4N pic.twitter.com/ep6UfsxAXg
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) March 22, 2021
The liberal media has focused much of its ire against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over the course of the pandemic over his refusal to bend to the demands of extreme pro-mask and pro-lockdowns advocates like Dr. Anthony Fauci.
I’m proud of our governor, unlike many of the GOP politicians he has a spine and a pair.
I hope he’s our Repub candidate for President in 2024! I voted for President Trump both times, but he’s much more effective as a King Maker, since the Dumbos will NEVER let him actually govern and the country can’t afford 4 more years of the Left insane TDS.
You are falling for the leftist, globalist agenda with that attitude.
Trump/De#antis 2024…the only TEAM that can save America.
de52 is being politically realistic, something OUR Pres. Trump wasn’t. THAT was why Trump won in 2016 and why the ELITES and DEEP STATE colluded to first overthrow him and failing that to steal the 2020 election from him.
I sympathize a lot with de52’s reasoning. However, we still need a leader with the moxie (bolas grandes) to defy those bent on turning the USA into the USSA. We need conservative constitutionalist populism to save the Republic, or what’s left of it.
Thanks.
AMEN!! A TRUE CONSERVATIVE AMERICAN PATRIOT!!!!!
Totally typical of the shameless left’s fake news.
So the dirty communist media is at it again!
They all have to go!
It’s only when news sites run stories like this that anyone is exposed to PMSNBC’s stupid hosts in the first place. I do not understand why they are given any press or any page space…who the hell cares what these double digit IQ fools believe or say?
I find it hard to believe MSNBC would lie about Conservatives. BLAH HA.
Left wing democrats = communist that’s a fact you dumb deplorable racist scum bags
It seems as though Democrats are rotten liars, no matter whether they are in politics or not. Perhaps it is time to purge Democrats from the United States, and send them to Red China, where they will feel more at home.
MSNBC all NUT jobs
MSNBC Sucks!
This is Standard Operating Procedure or the D’genrat party . . . .Reporters today print or say whatever enters their little pea brains because no editor is going to question you. The public has been told since grammar school that if it is in print it must be true otherwise they would be sued for Libel. I worked at large newspapers throughout the country for 40+ years and learned a major truth about reporters and news stories. If you see it in print or hear it on the news you can be sure of one thing. This event MAY HAVE HAPPENED. at some time in history but not Necessarily as this reporter is reporting or in the time frame this reporter is stating. Reporting this event as a current event Just proves my point. The photograph is two years old and the ‘reporter’ is acting as if the activity is current
MSNBC is to the Democratic party what Hermann Goring was to the Nazi party.
These corrupt satanic nazi democrat propagandist lie constantly! If they say the sun is shining, ya better look! Those scumbags would rather climb a fifty foot tree and tell to lie, than to stand on the ground and tell the truth!
American Action News is worse than all the socialist media propagandist about censoring free s preach!
Sometimes I think that you’re right. They have cut off my comments that were not inappropriate
Joy Reid is nothing more than a feckless Liberal Hack.
What else did you expect from The FAKE NEWS MEDIA!!!
That’s all they know is lies and fake news . Those that believe them are a party to the lies which makes them culpable.
They push a petty lie which just erodes their credibility for when they have to tell a whopper. At some point, NOBODY is going to believe a word they say.
At some point? That point has long been passed…
Does anyone care what that racist Reid says. She is disgusting.
I am so proud of our Governor Ron DeSantis. Even if those photos were from this year that crowd is dwarfed by the 15,000 plus that Governor Cuomo sent to their deaths in his nursing home massacre.
Anyone who believes ANYTHING coming from MSNBC, CNN, NBC or any other MSM news outlet needs to have their freaking head examined! They ALL lie to the American people, they ALL have an agenda and it’s ALL to the detriment of our republic. WAKE the h e l l up America…we are being played!
Should the Republicans take back the majority in 2022, they should use the FCC to shut these MSM down. Under the FCC, if any media company spreads false information, then they can be shut down.
msnbc and the rest of the lying press NEED TO BE SUED FOR MALPRACTICE, everyone of those reporters are CRIMINALS!!!
Remember the 2nd impeachment farce, all the news agencies used edited footage to make PRESIDENT TRUMP look bad (didn’t work). Sue these jerk off’s, hit them where it hurts!!!
Fools. So what. I did a Google image search and found dozens of 2021 photos of maskless college students in Florida.
Unfortunately the deplorable communist black racist bitch is paid by traitors destroy all
The left has to use old pictures because none of them are smart enough to use a camera!
How is the media and the Biden administration going to walk this back. This picture is from 2019 and not as described 2021.
Does anyone still watches the leading fake news outlets. How can you tell it’s fake? Because if cnn MSNBC NBC abc,cbs ,New York times, media hosts opens their mouths to speak,they’re lying. Everybody praised coumo til it’s known not only is he a pervert but he’s in on the killing of old people in nursing homes. Coumo is as corupt as they come. When he went on national TV to whine and cry about needing more breathing machines for covid patients, he forgot to mention they had stockpiled 2000 machines and was saving them for what? some more nursing patients to die. Cuomo and the Democratic party are nothing more than bottom feeders. Biden. Can’t think enough for himself to know the Dems are parading him in front of the cameras and making a complete fool out of Biden. I feel sorry for Biden not knowing what they are doing to him. And I don’t like Biden never did. It’s pathetic Biden wife can’t or won’t see the jokes and backroom talk they are doing to him. PATHETIC!!!