As we told you last night, CNN’s Rosa Flores got into it with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on the pace of vaccinations in his state:
Ron DeSantis needs to fill out adoption papers after he ends up owning a CNN reporter at his press conferencehttps://t.co/z8VAKiloh7 pic.twitter.com/GrX9yQbJTv
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 5, 2021
ICYMI, here it is again:
MUST WATCH: @RosaFlores
asks the Governor of Florida about the vaccine rollout but Ron DeSantis fires back pic.twitter.com/8PxJUA99Lh— LaRell CNN (@LaRellCNN) January 5, 2021
Now, this had us wondering why there are never exchanges like this between the press and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who under any objective measure has been a worse governor in this crisis than Gov. DeSantis in Florida.
For example, here he is from earlier today threatening to pull vaccines from hospitals that serve minority neighborhoods:
Cuomo says he's going to stop using the hospitals that are slow on vaccination and keep using the hospitals "that are better at doing it."
NYC Health+Hospitals facilities, identified as slow yesterday, mostly serve lower-income, minority neighborhoods.
— Bill Hammond (@NYHammond) January 5, 2021
Maybe Gov. Cuomo can explain his math on how to get everyone vaccinate by not using every hospital?
"We have plenty of hospitals," he says.
How many hospitals does he think are necessary to vaccinate 20 million people twice?
— Bill Hammond (@NYHammond) January 5, 2021
Anyway, as this editor noted, this SHOULD have been as viral an exchange as the CNN-DeSantis clip:
you know, maybe CNN should send the reporter who got into it with Desantis to ask Gov. Cuomo some questions https://t.co/Quuh5y6u3j
— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) January 5, 2021
But such an exchange would be impossible with Gov. Cuomo because he refuses to let it happen:
All of Cuomo's briefing these days are conducted on-line, with reporters on mute except when singled out to ask a question. A CNN-DeSantis-type scenario would not be possible. https://t.co/FnrrfKAhyU
— Bill Hammond (@NYHammond) January 5, 2021
Oh, wow. What a coward.
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