CNN’s Acosta Finds New Villain as Trump Recedes: ‘DeSantis Variant’

Jim Acosta’s act has grown tired in the Biden Era. Nevertheless, the CNN reporter-turned-anchor persists in adopting every conventional liberal Twitter opinion and vilifying anyone who takes a more nuanced approach. Take his objections to Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s approach to pandemic policy-making, for example.

On Saturday, Acosta singled out DeSantis as being responsible for the increase of Delta-variant COVID cases in the country, proclaiming that “people should not have to die so some politicians can own the libs. They’re not owning anybody, but they may end up owning the pandemic, because they’re prolonging it.”

In particular, the always-shrill Acosta took issue with an executive order signed by DeSantis to keep mask mandates out of public schools in the Sunshine State. While Acosta pointed to rising caseloads as a reason not to do so, he was unable to draw a connection between mask-wearing in schools and spread, or even make an argument that schools were significant vectors of transmission in the first place.

“Instead of the Delta variant, why not call it the DeSantis variant?” he solemnly asked the camera.

It’s a nasty and ignorant question. The Delta variant is infecting people all around the world and country, and it certainly did not emerge in Florida, which continues to be a middle-of-the-pack pandemic performer as measured by deaths per capita, despite its being home to a disproportionate number of seniors.

It’s particularly aggrieving, though, when you consider Acosta’s history. Remember, he was vehemently opposed to naming the original coronavirus after the genocidal regime that quite possibly created it and undoubtedly contributed to its proliferation around the world.