Florida

NBC spent not one, but two nights trying to make a scandal out of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis telling high-school kids behind his podium at an event that they didn't have to wear masks, since that was "ridiculous." NBC found an outraged parent and that completely nonpartisan head of the CDC for rebuttal. Even after the CDC relented on mask requirements, the networks are still ripping Republicans…

Another day, another hostile New York Times profile of a scientist, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who doesn’t buy into Covid-hysteria. Ladapo is the newly confirmed Surgeon General of the state of Florida, home of the Times’ least-favorite governor, Republican Ron DeSantis, who reopened the state ahead of blue states, while keeping cases and deaths within bounds. Miami bureau chief…

On Thursday's Morning Edition, they stacked the verbal deck against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the state's redistricting battle. DeSantis was opposing "federal and state protections for Black voters" and using a "conservative activist group" to make his case. On the other side, there were nonpartisan "voting rights groups" like the Brennan Center. 

On Monday, CBS Mornings adopted the left-wing premise that a new election fraud investigative unit in the State of Florida was a threat to democracy and proceeded to line up Democrats to denounce the specialized law enforcement team as a racist “goon squad.” The segment ultimately concluded that Republican Governor Ron DeSantis – unlike his Democratic opponents – was entirely…

CNN got more than they bargained for when asking conservative commentator Mary Katharine Ham to comment on a tweet sent out by Democrat congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over the weekend. 

On Thursday, The Daily Signal’s Mary Margaret Olohan published a profile of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s press secretary and how the Republican’s communications team was taking on the left-wing media: “Christina Pushaw is not afraid to get down in the dirt with reporters who go after her boss.” The piece added that Pushaw “has repeatedly called out the press for ‘bad-faith coverage…

In “How the G.O.P. Became Saboteurs, Threatening a Government Shutdown,” New York Times columnist Paul Krugman used the averted federal government shutdown to launch his usual partisan lunacy, untethered to reality.

The press will never forgive Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a 2024 Republican presidential contender, for flouting conventional wisdom on Covid restrictions and successfully opening the state back up for schools, businesses, and life in general earlier than his peers. Friday’s New York Times story “Florida Curtails Coronavirus Mandates, Reflecting Wishes of Vaccine Skeptics” by Miami…

PolitiFact gets very defensive when Republicans attack the Biden administration. Attorney General Merrick Garland has zero fact checks from PolitiFact, ever. But on Monday, PolitiFact's Jon Greenberg gave Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) a "False" for an October 5 tweet about Garland's orders to investigate parents as potential violent criminals. 

On her hourlong freakout The Reidout on Tuesday, MSNBC's Joy Reid smeared Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as "Dr. Death," who is "pro-COVID" and "rolling out the red carpet for this ravenous virus."

On Friday, AP executive Daisy Veerasingham wrote a Nasty-Gram to Gov. Ron DeSantis complaining that his press secretary Christina Pushaw was endangering reporters with her tweets. It recapped her tweets ripping the story that used terms like "Drag Them" and "put you on blast," with the AP executive characterizing them as a direct threat to her reporter. It's got that Jim Acosta echo: any…

After denouncing the Trump administration for banning travel from China in 2020, during the early days of the pandemic, on Monday, CNN’s New Day actually promoted the notion of somehow imposing a travel ban on the state of Florida over a recent rise in COVID cases there. Without a sense of irony, the show hyped the notion that travel from the Sunshine State would have already been…

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman joined the rest of the liberal press Friday wagging his finger at Florida and its Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis over its handling of the coronavirus: "At every stage of the pandemic DeSantis has effectively acted as an ally of the coronavirus...he has helped create a state of mind in which vaccine skepticism flourishes and refusal to take…

Sometimes people just come out and say what we all know to be true, even if some still pretend otherwise. Nikki Fried, a Democratic politician who is running for Florida governor and hopes to challenge Republican Ron DeSantis, tweeted this on Thursday: “Ron DeSantis has Fox News, but we have everyone else. Florida will be blue in 2022.”