MSNBC personalities share 2019 photo of crowded Miami Beach in failed coronavirus shaming attempthttps://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-personalities-2019-photo-miami-beach-coronavirusMSNBC personalities shared a crowded Miami Beach photo to complain about vacationers flouting coronavirus distancing guidelines, but there was one problem: the photo was from 2019.
"Today's center of the #COVIDIOTS universe is Miami Beach, Florida," MSNBC analyst Fernand R. Amandi tweeted on Saturday, complete with a photo of a packed beach.
Internet sleuths quickly pointed out the photo was taken for a 2019 Sun Sentinel article about Miami Beach law enforcement cracking down on rowdy spring breakers, nearly a year before the pandemic shut down the United States.
However, MSNBC host Joy Reid, who is one of two hosts on the left-wing outlet's primetime lineup with a history of fabulism, shared the photo with her 2 million followers and wrote, "That literally looks like a microscopic image of a petrie dish," complete with sick-face emojis.
Here's the original 2019 article,
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/miami-dade/fl-ne-spring-break-miami-beach-new-strategy-20190322-story.html .