Ana Kasparian, a co-host on the left-wing news show “The Young Turks,” expressed regret this week for promoting inaccurate claims regarding Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ management of the COVID pandemic.
“I want to correct all of those errors that we had previously reported,” Kasparian said. “And I want to be clear that out of everyone who works on the main show, the only person who should be held responsible for that is me.
“I’m the executive producer of the show, and I screwed up royally. And part of the reason why I screwed up is because I had all these biases, of course, against Ron DeSantis,” she added.
Kasparian clarified that because she disagreed with some of Governor DeSantis’ actions, she did not have any regrets about her biases against him.
“But it becomes a problem when that bias blinds you to what the facts of various stories happen to be,” she said. “And I should have done my due diligence. I failed to do so.”
Kasparian went on to specify that she was referring to Rebekah Jones, a twice-failed Democratic congressional candidate who was dismissed by the DeSantis administration and is considered a discredited conspiracy theorist.
“And by failing to do so, I feel like I’ve misled the audience into thinking that Rebecca Jones is some sort of hero,” Kasparian said. “Now, to be fair to myself, and to be fair to other independent media sources, if you’re not doing your own original reporting, you’re relying on the mainstream media narrative a lot of the time, and if they’re not doing their due diligence, if they’re allowing their personal biases to stand in the way of actual factual reporting, well, that’s, unfortunately, going to trickle into the way independent news sources cover these types of stories as well.”
“Fact of the matter is, I want to make sure that I correct my errors,” she noted further. “I get you guys accurate information, and I avoid helping someone who might be a grifter, from fundraising off of our own audience members.”
Ana Kasparian admits that TYT didn't fact check the Rebekah Jones nonsense due to her not liking DeSantis & wanting to get him. She acknowledges this was the reason the media ran with the claims as well. She apologizes to audience members who donated to her scam GoFundMe as well pic.twitter.com/cPCbBLi78H
— Sean Fitzgerald (Actual Justice Warrior) (@IamSean90) April 13, 2023
