Whether it’s against woke corporations or in straw polls as voters throw favor behind him as a potential GOP candidate for the 2024 presidential election, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) continues to rack up wins. But his genuine success has left the Democratic media surrogates flailing in their efforts to knock him down, as evidenced by the latest takedown from spokeswoman Christina Pushaw.
On Friday, The Washington Post released a hit piece on DeSantis so laden with inaccuracies that the effort to smear the governor was almost lost amidst the terrible reporting. While it is her job to liaise with the press on behalf of the state’s executive, Pushaw decided to go above and beyond Monday when she summarily shredded the Post for failing at journalism on every level.
“In addition to the obviously biased framing here,” she began with screen captures highlighting each erroneous line in the article, “[the Post] AGAIN made a factual error that is easily checked.”
In addition to the obviously biased framing here, @washingtonpost AGAIN made a factual error that is easily checked. The FY 22-23 budget recently signed by @GovRonDeSantis is NOT $101.5 billion. It's easy to find the actual number. 30 seconds on Google. What are reporters for? pic.twitter.com/YeZJ4QQOVT
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) June 6, 2022
Pointing to the claimed budget of $101.5 billion, she reminded the outlet what search engines are for stating, “It’s easy to find the actual number. 30 seconds on Google. What are reporters for?”
Her dissection of the piece carried on with her setting the record straight on the recent veto of funding that would have benefitted the Tampa Bay Rays to the tune of $35 million in taxpayer funding toward a practice stadium. The post claimed it was over an “anti-gun violence tweet” when DeSantis had gone on the record with “his long-held position” that professional sports stadiums shouldn’t be subsidized by taxpayers. As she put it, “any real fiscal conservative would say the same thing.”
This sentence is also patently false. There is nothing to suggest that transgender people could be "banned from Medicaid coverage". Anyone who is eligible for Medicaid, regardless of gender, can use it. But Medicaid should not be used to cover dangerous, unproven interventions pic.twitter.com/0vaepzgqWr
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) June 6, 2022
Unlike the standard curbed language once bandied about in dealing with the media, Pushaw called it like it is when drawing attention to the outright lies contained in the piece. As she suggested, if they bothered to do the research “before writing inaccurate smear pieces about him” their article wouldn’t be filled with “patently false” claims such as a ban on “Medicaid coverage for transgender people of any age.”
Famous WaPo ‘crybully’ reporter Taylor Lorenz called out over false claim about Depp-Heard trial https://t.co/OQpC4slKBa pic.twitter.com/xp2KqLaT0O
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) June 4, 2022
As the Manhattan Institute’s Christopher Rufo pointed out when referencing other hit pieces from the publication, readily discredited works like that of Taylor Lorenz, who claimed to have been denied comment from sources she had never reached out to, are “the rule, not the exception, at the Washington Post.”
Democracy dies when the media lies.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) June 6, 2022
“Washington Post writers are grim and talentless mercenaries for the regime and have polluted a once-respected newspaper with smears, propaganda, and lies,” Rufo added before riffing on their slogan offering, “Democracy dies when the media lies.”
When she was done calling out the skewed editorialization of the piece about her boss, Pushaw encouraged the national editor and executive editor for the Post to rise above the fray of their juvenile staff and “take some time out of their busy schedules negotiating middle school conflicts between their staffers on Slack,” a messaging app, “and respond to the issues with this article, including the blatant factual errors.”
Apparently, Pushaw’s oft-viral tweets garner as much attention as the governor’s actions these days because it wasn’t long after she called out the failings of the outlet that they reached out to her.
After an email denoting the first mistake would be corrected, Pushaw explained the reporter “asked me for more details on the other issues I raised with the article. So, I elaborated on those and sent evidence. Let’s see what happens!”
Great news! The Washington Post reporter just emailed me to say that the first error is being corrected. So, I appreciate that. She asked me for more details on the other issues I raised with the article. So, I elaborated on those and sent evidence. Let's see what happens! https://t.co/YMmODX5HRb
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) June 6, 2022
At the time of this posting, only the budget figure has been corrected.
They are not reporters…. they simply regurgitate what they are told to.
— CommonSense2022 (@Komonsense2022) June 6, 2022
And in that order.
SOP for the Washington Post.
— Critical Thinking (@irtated_bowels) June 6, 2022
Half of Washington Post is corrections.
— Hocus POTUS out of FOCUS (@HocusPotusO) June 6, 2022
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Northeast PA with his fiancé and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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