In response to President Trump defending vaccines to Candace Owens that we told you about earlier, New York Mag’s Jonathan Chait took a swipe at Gov. Ron DeSantis and accused him of “extreme attacks on vaccines”:
Potentially interesting contrast with DeSantis’s increasingly extreme attacks on vaccines https://t.co/qHAPzlo0kx
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) December 23, 2021
Um, a little evidence, please:
Has DeSantis attacked vaccines or just mandates? (Plus of course refusing to say whether he’s boosted.)
— Eric Columbus (@EricColumbus) December 23, 2021
Chait responded with, “He’s absolutely attacked vaccines” and “I’ve written about it”:
He’s absolutely attacked vaccines. I’ve written about it.
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) December 23, 2021
He means this article from October:
Pro-vaccine Republicans want to keep pretending DeSantis isn't a vaccine skeptic, but the evidence is just overwhelming https://t.co/Vr4xrwUTHT
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) October 25, 2021
You know, the one that was already debunked.
From Karol Markowicz back then, “You don’t produce a single example or link” to back up his claim:
Thanks @jonathanchait for devoting your whole column to me. While you write "DeSantis’s courtship of the anti-vaccine movement embarasses many of his fans," you don't produce a single example or link. My editor wouldn't let me do that. We have a whole thing about facts.
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) October 31, 2021
And now he’s saying it again:
If DeSantis is anti-vax, it should be easy to find an example. Not one comment? That's just weird, no, @jonathanchait? Almost like you made it up?
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) October 31, 2021
It’s an obsession, maybe?
I get it, @jonathanchait. You hate Gov. DeSantis. You should write a column about how you hate the way he walks and you hate the way he talks. You know, like that totally not crazy column you wrote about George W. Bush.
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) October 31, 2021
DeSantis spox Christina Pushaw called him “insane” back then:
Omg 😂😂😂 I missed this. Insane.
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 (@ChristinaPushaw) October 31, 2021
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