PolitiFact Rates DeSantis 'Mostly False' For True Statement About CRT

August 15th, 2023 10:25 AM

Florida Governor and 2024 GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis recently declared that “we’ve eliminated Critical Race Theory in our K through 12 schools.” It was a rather simple statement, but was true, but yet, PolitiFact's Samantha Putterman still rated it “mostly false” on Monday.

Column: Republican Racism 'Weaponized' Kamala Harris?

August 2nd, 2023 9:11 AM

One of the most annoying ploys of liberal journalists is to advise Republicans that the truly wise path in politics is to surrender to liberals on everything, and the dumbest path is to oppose them emphatically.

Media Attack Florida Education Rules, Whitewash Dems' Race History

July 29th, 2023 4:00 PM

Ya can’t make it up. 

NY Times Seeks to Undermine the DeSantis Record Defying Media on COVID

July 27th, 2023 10:29 PM

Sunday’s lead New York Times story by Sharon LaFraniere, Patricia Mazzei, and Albert Sun, “The Steep Cost of Ron DeSantis’s Vaccine Turnabout,” was a retrospective hit piece for the 2024 presidential race, reaching back before current culture war controversies to focus on Florida’s Republican governor-presidential candidate and the alleged deadly medical malpractice he performed by…

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CNN Accuses DeSantis Of Trying 'To Soften The Brutality' Of Slavery

July 27th, 2023 4:35 PM

Late Wednesday night saw people close to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defend the state’s new history guidelines on slavery by pointing out that the Advanced Placement course that the media demanded the state adopt has very similar standards. However, Thursday’s viewers of CNN News Central were not informed of these latest developments as host Jim Sciutto conducted a softball interview…

PolitiFact Defends Harris On Florida's 'Offensive' History Standards

July 25th, 2023 12:00 PM

PolitiFact waded into the controversy surrounding Florida’s new history standards by rating Vice President Kamala Harris “mostly true” for her statement that the state is teaching “enslaved people benefited from slavery.” To reach such a conclusion the trio of Sofia Bliss-Carrascosa, Louis Jacobson, and Amy Sherman had to tie themselves into a giant pretzel by simply downplaying evidence…

Florida Man Shoots & Kills Pregnant ‘Boyfriend’

Culture
July 24th, 2023 10:53 AM

Nope, you're not seeing things or waking up from a fever dream. That’s not a typo in that headline. 

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Juan Williams SLIMES Fla. Black History Standards with 9/11, Holocaust

July 24th, 2023 10:51 AM

The pundit panel on Fox News Sunday took on the subject of Florida's new standards for teaching black history in public schools. Juan Williams took the Democratic hot takes to a new level, that Florida was teaching something like "Jews picked up some skills in concentration camps" and "engineers learned a lot" from 9/11. He folded that subject, redistricting in Alabama, and leftist…

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PBS Cheers Harris Attacking Florida's New History Standards

July 22nd, 2023 10:17 AM

Washington Post contributor Gary Abernathy and associate editor Jonathan Capehart joined PBS NewsHour’s Geoff Bennett to recap the week that was by not only excluding any mention of the House hearing on IRS whistleblowers alleging improper interference in the Hunter Biden investigation, but finding consensus that Vice President Harris is correct to attack Florida Gov. Ron…

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MSNBC: Florida's History Curriculum Is Akin to Defending the Holocaust

July 20th, 2023 1:44 PM

Florida has come out with their new curriculum guidelines for African-American history and MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera invited Vanderbilt Prof. Michael Eric Dyson on to her Thursday show to talk about how they allegedly are comparable to teaching that there were good things about the Holocaust.

WashPost Forced to Correct Florida FAKE NEWS by Jennifer Rubin

July 17th, 2023 2:20 PM

Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin laid an ostrich-sized egg on Friday, relying on a badly flawed Business Insider hit piece on Florida losing population under Gov. Ron DeSantis.

NY Times Goes to Florida, Laments LGBTQ, NAACP Travel Warnings Ignored

July 11th, 2023 10:00 PM

Atlanta-based “culture and style” New York Times reporter Tariro Mzezewa made a Florida jaunt to gauge the effectiveness – or lack thereof – of the pretentious “travel advisories” issued by various left-wing interest groups in the name of protecting LGBTQ and black Americans after Gov. Ron DeSantis made a couple of moves that displeased the radical left, in “Florida Tourism Rolls On…

Company Fires Catholic Man for Marking Pronouns ‘Assigned by God’

Culture
June 16th, 2023 11:51 AM

I bet he’d still have his job if he wrote “xe/xer.”

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Reid Fears Trump Jury Selection, Smears Florida as Being Full of Nazis

June 9th, 2023 10:31 AM

After former President Trump said on Thursday night that he was being indicted, MSNBC’s Joy Reid feared that he would escape conviction because “Florida…has now become a beachhead for…Nazism.”