Former failed presidential candidate Howard Dean has been called out for pushing conspiracies in an attempt to paint Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in a negative light.
According to Town Hall:
If we’re starting to resemble something of a broken record writing about Florida’s COVID response so frequently, it’s probably because progressives and journalists – one in the same, in most cases – started attacking the state on this front at the onset of the pandemic and have never ceased, irrespective of the data or real-world outcomes. Correcting misinformation, clarifying the record, debunking myths, and checking facts on these matters sometimes feels like a full-time project. The latest example comes from a former Democratic governor and DNC chairman, who is the most recent figure to embrace the baseless conspiracy theory that Florida’s stats aren’t as bad as they “should” be because the state government is hiding the “true” data. They cannot process Florida and California taking opposite paths on mitigation and ending up with nearly identical case and death rates, so they conclude that Florida must be cheating. There is absolutely no evidence of this, of course.
Howard Dean’s “BlueAnon” moment came in response to a piece by Derek Thompson in The Atlantic, essentially arguing that both political tribes are significantly overstating their preferred narratives about Florida. His basic conclusion is that Florida is sort of…average, which – granting his thesis for the sake of argument – I’d argue is an achievement, given their challenges and their favorable economic position, relative to other large states with far more restrictions (and similar or worse health outcomes). Dean simply could not accept that progressives have been wrong about their doomsday predictions and caustic condemnations of Gov. Ron DeSantis and company, so he descended into madness:
There's literally no evidence of this. pic.twitter.com/xX7IBKUMA9
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) March 23, 2021
He could be talking about New York, which actually cooked the books, but he’s not, for obvious partisan reasons. It is dangerous for prominent people to use their influence to push false information about COVID, and for some, this has resulted in sanctions from Twitter. Whether intentional or not, Dean’s claim about DeSantis and his “henchmen” is an absolute lie. Florida’s data is very transparent and accurate, the opposite of “worthless.” Much of this widely-accepted lie on the Left is rooted in the saga of Rebekah Jones, a bogus “whistleblower” whose dishonesty, lack of ethics, and alleged multiple crimes utterly discredit the claims she’s advanced. She was feted in the press because of her explosive allegations that aligned with what many in the press wanted to hear, but it’s just not true. Read this and especially this. Many outlets have since backed away from her, but not all. And her high-profile round of false accusations still reverberate with people who wish to believe them. Beyond the Jones nonsense, one of Florida’s top Democrats has explicitly rejected Dean’s brand of paranoid innuendo:
Outgoing FL emergency director @JaredEMoskowitz — a Biden-backing lone Democrat in a top FL gov post — warns Dems not to believe conspiracy theories about FL Covid deaths because it’s not true https://t.co/nVpIDSBVLI pic.twitter.com/VmGBlkyHGL
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) February 16, 2021
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If you're paying to support @GeoRebekah for information like this, you're not getting you money's worth, unless confirmation bias and weaponizing inaccurate data analysis is more important than the truth
Additional background https://t.co/uyqDNtDGF1
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) February 8, 2021
“Jones has held three jobs in her field; all three have ended in her being terminated and criminally charged.” What a sentence. It’s incredible that confirmation bias-hungry leftists continue to put stock in anything she says, including high-profile leaders who ought to know better. Maybe they do know better, but don’t care. Two more points: The Atlantic’s COVID Tracking Project, which stopped new data collection in early March, used to grade states on the quality of their data. Florida consistently earned an “A.” Also, let’s pretend for a moment that the conspiracy crowd is onto something and the Sunshine State has been shrouding COVID deaths in darkness to downplay its problem. It’s not true, but let’s just indulge it for a moment. That theory would be given some oxygen if Florida’s so-called “excess deaths” over the last year were suspiciously high, compared to officially-recorded COVID deaths. Last week, The New York Times examined “excess deaths” in America…
The article also mentions that Moskowitz would not deny he was referring to Rebekah Jones who has reportedly been lying for months.
According to Benson:
“Jones has held three jobs in her field; all three have ended in her being terminated and criminally charged.” What a sentence. It’s incredible that confirmation bias-hungry leftists continue to put stock in anything she says, including high-profile leaders who ought to know better. Maybe they do know better, but don’t care. Two more points: The Atlantic’s COVID Tracking Project, which stopped new data collection in early March, used to grade states on the quality of their data. Florida consistently earned an “A.”
I didn’t know Howard Dean was still alive. Unfortunate!
“Only the good die young!”
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He needs to keep his nose out of Florida before some of the people knocks it out of joint we like our Gov. just fine here
Dean? Still speaking out? I had heard he had died of cranial rectal insertion.
More of Dean’s I Have a Scream Theory!
Is this guy a has been or never was?
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYAAAAHHHH!!!
another has been moron heard from,I thought this Dean was dead or does he just look that way.
Is Dean channeling Alan Grayson?
Mr.Ron DeSantis will be a 10 times better president than Joe Biden!
My family of Floridians love Ron DeSantis!
Hey Dean…. you’ve always been a weasel!!!!
Florida is just fine, only a crooked demo would see different.
HEY HD, me thinks that you are a very sore loser. Losers need to shut up and go away and me thinks that is what you need to do!
Howard the duck is still a schmuck. I wonder if he still does the “scream” as in ’04.
You mean the ‘little screamer’……..He’s nothing but a piss ant. Not an honest bone in his freaking little body.
Howard Dean is just being a democrat and I did not realize that he was sti around.
Howard Dean Coward Spleen.
Let the Dems beat up on DeSantis. The more they do, the more we know DeSantis is ON TARGET. Wanna drive Dems absolutely NUTS? How about a Trump-DeSantis ticket in 2024???
Imagine if CRAZY Howard Dean was Vice- President with this brain dead moron Biden “acting” as Pres.. Ugh, we are REALLY in a bad place & dictator Pelosi & Despot Schumer are right up there with this TREASONOUS administration.How’s about “they” start taking the BLAME for what they are doing to OUR country? “WE” are silenced & this brood of VIPERS gets all the free “press” that they want. The inmates are running the asylum.
Howard Dean is a misinformed Dimwit coward. Among the Dimwits, there are bushels of cowards; in fact, not since Hitler has there been such uniformity of misinformation and silence pervading the ranks of Dimwits. Silence when Biden is cognitively impaired; silence acknowledging the self-inflicted border crisis; silence and delusion on the early production of vaccine; silence on late-term abortion and Biden’s Catholicism which is a joke.
Desantis is liked by many people so now the defamation and slander start. They’ll use the next 4 yrs to attack any patriot or steadfast candidate! It’s just like reading the same book over and over again. God bless America and help all that serve in truth and honesty for the people!
Living in Florida most of my life,I’m happy to have such an outstanding Governor! He supports us to the fullest extent!
Democrats lie, cheat, and falsely accuse to redirect attention away from their wrong doing, it will never change and they need to be called on it more.
Called on it? Hell, its a freakin badge of honor to them!
Dean ….the Ball- less bastard should publicly state that HIS OWN COMMUNIST PARTY a.k.a. DEMOCRAP Party ACTUALLY HAS BEEN PROVEN to have LIED AND FALSELY FAKED THE NUMBER OF SENIOR CITIZENS NURSING HOME *DEATHS*…..LETS TALK ABOUT *THAT* YOU 🪱.🤡, 💩face mf’r !!! Let’s talk about FACTS- YOU PIECE OF 💩
Actually if their is a full investigation of Florida’s numbers, and true causes of death, I believe it would show Florida’s death numbers were grossly overstated, so bring it on. Every state should have a full independent audit of numbers, and they should welcome it. Just like any investigation into the election should fully be WELCOMED! If everything done in your state was done according to the law, and no cheating happened, why would you NOT welcome a full forensic audit? If they are crying about investigations, they are LYING.
POBRECITO! Yes, I thought Mr. Dean a long time ago was DEAD! Oh! now suddenly today’s mouth ejected forcibly took! much DIARRHEA Gotcha! Charlie G/Sr..The USA!
Wow, Howard Dean telling outrageous lies, making up “facts”, and talking crazy smack all for the sake of political advantage? Whodathunkit?
This story belongs right up there with such headlines as “Sun Rose Today”.
The Socialist left fears Ron DeSantis, a strong, no nonsense, hard working governor for the People. They have to try and come up with some more fake propaganda and slander, just like they cooked up on President Trump because they are so worthless to do anything honest or beneficial for the people. Thats why they opened up the borders, they had to bring in new people because the former voters have abandoned the Democrat party.
John Dean was and is a criminal. He has no standing.
Effin douche bag!
OH BROTHER ——-LOL–LOL——— REALLY HOWARD DEAN ISN’T WORTH CRAP TO LISTEN TOO. LET ALONE THINK THAT HE IS TRUST WORTHY. I REMEMBER YRS AGO WHEN HE WAS RUNNING FOR SOMETHING ——– WHAT A LEFT WING IDIOT.