Live from Music Row, Wednesday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed One America News National Political Correspondent, Neil W. McCabe to the newsmaker line to weigh in on Governor DeSantis’s investigation into COVID vaccine side effects and Floridian opinion on a 2024 presidential run.
Leahy: On the newsmaker line right now, our very good friend, top gov tracker, national political correspondent for One American News Network on the, on the web at oann.com based in Tallahassee, Florida, Mr. Neil W. McCabe. Good morning Neil.
McCabe: Good morning, Michael. Good morning Crom. Very good to be with you, gentlemen.
Leahy: Yeah, letting us know, letting us snow. Letting it snow. I don’t think it’s snowing in Florida today, is it?
McCabe: No, I understand it happens but I think that’s because snow is slang for something else. I’m with the kids.
Leahy: Ron DeSantis is making news again. This is interesting that Just the News is reporting. This is a bit of a shot across the bow against Donald Trump if you will.
McCabe: Absolutely.
Leahy: He has empowered a grand jury to go after the Big Pharma manufacturers of the mRNA vaccine saying, exploring the idea that they misled people about the side effects of it. Tell us about that. Why is he doing this, and where does it go?
McCabe: Well, like you said, Mike, it is a shot across the bow of project Warp Speed. Everybody was telling Donald Trump we need a vaccine. We need a vaccine. You’ll never get it done, you’ll never get it done. Then he gets it done and now everybody says, well what did you do that for?
We remember that the FDA and the Big Pharma held back the vaccine so it wouldn’t help him in the election because it was such a great accomplishment that now doesn’t look so swell. So yes, it is a backdoor way of going after Trump.
It’s also a very interesting way of going after these companies who have been granted federal immunity from anything having to do with COVID. But we’d deal with the problem with the dual sovereign. So just like the state of New York is going after Trump and just as they went after Steve Bannon.
Bannon was given a pardon but the state of New York is going to go after Bannon anyway. And so the state of Florida can say, hey, you can be held accountable for crimes that happen in Florida. So they’re going to go after cardiac-related death tied to the mRNA vaccine.
They’re going to create a public health integrity committee to oversee the medical establishment. They’re going to look into what are the shots, what happened, and who knew what. And it’ll be very interesting. After the Parkland shooting, they also created a grand jury.
That grand jury didn’t result in convictions, but it did produce a report that was used to basically go in and fix problems. Maybe other schools should have paid attention to what they found.
But DeSantis used that grand jury report from Parkland to suspend people from county school boards, and so there will be action from this. I don’t know about convictions but once this ball is in motion we could very well see trials and convictions based on what they find.
Leahy: Crom Carmichael has a question for you.
McCabe: Hey, Crom.
Carmichael: I’m looking at a website called [your]NEWS, and it points out that as of December 2 of this year, there have been a total of 906,000 adverse event reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. There have been over 900,000 reports, including over 15,000 deaths that are related to the COVID vaccine.
It’s going to be interesting to me to see. Because there are so many things now that, in hindsight, to me, the most important part about hopefully what this panel will do is it will give us an idea of what we did wrong and what we did right. And I’m concerned that we did a lot more things wrong than we did right in responding to what was at that point, an unknown and unquantifiable risk.
McCabe: I guess the two points of this are one, it’s interesting to me that many of these companies were already working on a vaccine for a pandemic that hadn’t hit yet, and they seemed to know what was coming. At least there was something in the ether that something like this would be coming down, and people were working on it.
I don’t know if the grand jury will go into that. I think your second point points to the reason why the vaccine was developed so quickly. One of the reasons was that they sort of gave a hall pass on the testing. So in a typical vaccine test, you have 50,000 people that are involved in the test.
That’s 25,000 placebos and 25,000 vaccines. But with that 25,000 who actually get the vaccine, you can slice and dice it by ethnicity, by age, by gender, and you can really figure out, okay, what subpopulations is it very effective and for what sub-populations, for whatever the reason, is it fatal or dangerous?
And we just never went through the slicing and dicing of the cross tabs, Mike, like it was a poll. We just never went through that. And so there are populations who are just getting hammered by this thing, and now it’s popping up.
And unfortunately, those people tend to be military-age males. And then the Biden administration basically is forcing military-age males to take this vaccine, and they’re like one of the prime targets.
Leahy: So let’s shift gears a little bit here. You’re based in Tallahassee now. That’s the capital of Florida.
McCabe: We have the capitol here, Mike.
Leahy: Yes, you have the capitol of Florida. And what’s the general feeling in the capital in Florida about Ron DeSantis and what’s the feeling among sort of the general public, be it Republican or Independents or Democrats, about his performance, about what kind of guy he is and about his prospects of possibly running for president? What’s the sense of Floridians right now?
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