Ana Kasparian, co-host of “The Young Turks,” apologized to her audience for providing air time to a Democratic activist and critic of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ COVID-19 policies.
“The only person that should be held responsible for that is me. I’m the executive producer of the show and I screwed up royally,” Kasparian said via the “Young Turks” YouTube channel, referring to her prior coverage of former Florida health official Rebekah Jones, who had made a number of accusations against the Republican governor.
“I want to correct all of those errors that we had previously reported,” Kasparian said overnight Tuesday, referring to claims that Jones made. “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. And I don’t really feel bad about that because I think Ron DeSantis has done some pretty terrible things in the state of Florida, but it becomes a problem when that bias blinds you to what the facts of various stories happen to be.”Kasparian added: “I should have done my due diligence, I failed to do so, and by failing to do so, I feel like I misled the audience into thinking that Rebekah Jones is some sort of hero.”
