{"id":1172904,"date":"2021-12-30T14:34:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T19:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1172904"},"modified":"2021-12-30T14:34:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T19:34:37","slug":"democracy-dies-in-darkness-desantis-spox-outs-wapo-for-trashing-florida-while-ignoring-covid-surges-in-the-blue-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democracy-dies-in-darkness-desantis-spox-outs-wapo-for-trashing-florida-while-ignoring-covid-surges-in-the-blue-north\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Democracy Dies In Darkness\u2019: DeSantis Spox Outs WaPo For Trashing Florida While Ignoring COVID Surges In The Blue North"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocracy-dies-in-darkness-desantis-spox-outs-wapo-for-trashing-florida-while-ignoring-covid-surges-in-the-blue-north%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1172904&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Christina Pushaw accused the Washington Post of focusing more scrutiny on the number of COVID-19 cases in Florida than the numbers in northern states, throwing the outlet\u2019s catchphrase \u2014 \u201cDemocracy dies in darkness\u201d \u2014 back in its face.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/ap-quotes-mayor-attacking-ron-desantis-doesnt-mention-hes-married-to-desantis-political-rival\/\">Pushaw<\/a>, spokeswoman for Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, shared screenshots of an email she received from The Washington Post \u2014 requesting data about Florida\u2019s recent uptick in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/two-more-hit-broadway-shows-canceled-over-covid-concerns\/\">COVID-19<\/a> cases \u2014 and her reply.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Democracy dies in darkness \ud83e\udd21 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9s5ScVyVYx\">pic.twitter.com\/9s5ScVyVYx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christina Pushaw \ud83d\udc0a (@ChristinaPushaw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw\/status\/1476594577452650501?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post\u2019s query email read:<\/p>\n<p><em>Good morning Christina,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m working on a story about the state of the pandemic with a focus on emerging hotspots in the south, and we were going to include context about the latest numbers in Florida if you can send me any information about how the DeSantis administration is preparing for and responding to this latest surge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Might also include the criticism from Jerry Demings about DeSantis not holding statewide briefings on the virus and signing the legislation out of the special session that limited local public health powers if you can also respond to that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One of my colleagues may also be in touch soon with a more Florida-specific story in the coming days. Deadline for this story is COB.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/progressives-fleeing-to-the-sunshine-state-while-trashing-floridas-politics\/\">Pushaw<\/a> responded to the inquiry by asking why The Washington Post, a national newspaper, was focusing so much attention on COVID-19 cases in the south \u2014 specifically Florida \u2014 when other states were seeing dramatic, even record-shattering, case surges.<\/p>\n<p>Pushaw\u2019s response was as follows:<\/p>\n<p><em>Any particular reason for the focus on the South rather than the record-breaking surges in NYC and CA? After all, Washington Post is a national publication, and it\u2019s probably worth reporting that the parts of the country with strict mask mandates and vaccine passports are experiencing the same or worse surges than the open areas of the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Copying DOH comms to send you info on omicron in FL.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Kind regards,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Christina Pushaw&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf the top 10 states (including DC) with highest infection rates right now, 7 are run by Democrats. Florida isn\u2019t even in the top 10,\u201d author <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eScarry\/status\/1476609681581916164\">Eddie Scarry<\/a> noted in response to Pushaw\u2019s tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Fox Radio host Trey Radel joked, \u201cAll good here. Let\u2019s check in on Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cAll good here. Let\u2019s check in on Florida.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xC6p9Q20DJ\">pic.twitter.com\/xC6p9Q20DJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Trey Radel (@treyradel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/treyradel\/status\/1476596111804710915?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYep, New York City alone accounted for 4,000 more cases yesterday than Florida,\u201d Kyle Lamb, a researcher for DeSantis\u2019 communications team added. \u201cFlorida is 2.5x the population of NYC. New York currently has almost 2.5x the rate of people hospitalized than Florida (33 per 100,000 to 14). But Florida\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The state of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/coronavirus\/ny-obliterates-single-day-covid-case-record-with-nearly-70000-new-positives\/3471191\/\">New York<\/a> reported over 67,000 new cases on Wednesday, smashing the previous single-day record. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/coronavirus\/article256917562.html\">Florida<\/a> also reached a new single-day record on Wednesday, recording 46,923 new cases according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). COVID-19 cases have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/12\/30\/health\/us-coronavirus-thursday\/index.html\">tripled<\/a> in Louisiana over the last two weeks, and Maryland also reported a record number of new cases \u2014 10,873 \u2014 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is fighting Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate in federal court.&nbsp; Join us in this fight by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lp.dailywire.com\/osha-petition\/\">signing our petition<\/a>&nbsp;to OSHA, telling them that you will not comply with this mandate.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christina Pushaw accused the Washington Post of focusing more scrutiny on the number of COVID-19 cases in Florida than the numbers in northern states, throwing the outlet\u2019s catchphrase \u2014 \u201cDemocracy dies in darkness\u201d \u2014 back in its face. Pushaw, spokeswoman for Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, shared screenshots of an email she received from The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}