{"id":1576281,"date":"2022-07-28T09:40:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T13:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1576281"},"modified":"2022-07-28T09:40:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T13:40:43","slug":"desantis-spokeswoman-shreds-wapo-for-2000-word-article-whining-about-her-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-spokeswoman-shreds-wapo-for-2000-word-article-whining-about-her-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis\u2019 Spokeswoman Shreds WaPo For 2,000-Word Article Whining About Her Tweets"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fdesantis-spokeswoman-shreds-wapo-for-2000-word-article-whining-about-her-tweets%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=1576281&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2018-11-05T171912Z_184506990_RC1847644220_RTRMADP_3_USA-ELECTION-FLORIDA-1-scaled-e1658949051483.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Christina Pushaw, press secretary for Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, tore into the Washington Post Wednesday over a lengthy article criticizing her tweets.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post published a more than 2,000-word <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/media\/2022\/07\/27\/christina-pushaw-desantis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">analysis<\/a> of her tweets Wednesday and characterized her as having a hostile and derisive attitude toward the press. Pushaw responded by criticizing the outlet for focusing on her Twitter account rather than the numerous national and global crises currently unfolding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmid war in Europe, runaway inflation, a global energy crisis, our economy about to be plunged into recession, the many scandals of the Biden Administration, record-breaking illegal immigration and drug trafficking, and terroristic threats against Supreme Court Justices, the Washington Post chose to devote months of effort to writing a profile about a staffer in Tallahassee,\u201d Pushaw told the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is \u2018DeSantis for Clicks,\u2019 and Floridians see right through it. No wonder media credibility has fallen to an all time low,\u201d she said. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/27\/ron-desantis-drag-children-florida-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Kids Are Off Limits\u2019: DeSantis Sues Bar That Let Children Attend Drag Shows)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post article opened with a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw\/status\/1550312275457851394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweet<\/a> Pushaw sent July 21 mocking journalists who were denied access to the Sunshine Summit, a July 22-23\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sunshinesummit.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">event<\/a> hosted by the Republican Party of Florida where DeSantis and numerous conservative commentators gave speeches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">It has come to my attention that some liberal media activists are mad because they aren\u2019t allowed into <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SunshineSummit?src=hashtag_click\">#SunshineSummit<\/a><\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> this weekend. My message to them is to try crying about it,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThen go to kickboxing and have a margarita. And write the same hit piece you were gonna write anyway.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It has come to my attention that some liberal media activists are mad because they aren\u2019t allowed into <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SunshineSummit?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SunshineSummit<\/a> this weekend. My message to them is to try crying about it. Then go to kickboxing and have a margarita. And write the same hit piece you were gonna write anyway.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christina Pushaw \ud83d\udc0a \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@ChristinaPushaw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw\/status\/1550312275457851394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The author portrayed this tweet as representative of Pushaw\u2019s general approach to Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cThe derisive tone was typical of Pushaw, 31, a state employee who earns $120,000 a year. In the 14 months since joining DeSantis\u2019s staff, she has transformed the typically buttoned-down role of gubernatorial press secretary into something like a running public brawl \u2014 with Twitter as her blunt-force weapon,\u201d he wrote. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cHer usual targets: Democrats, the news media and anyone else she deems insufficiently supportive of DeSantis\u2019s agenda and her own conservative politics,\u201d the piece said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The article also attempted to link Pushaw to the followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory, who it claims used the term \u201cgroomer\u201d before Pushaw <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw\/status\/1499890719691051008?s=20&#038;t=r21bfWUB5PcomIyDZ5pIWg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">did<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile conspiratorial QAnon followers had previously used the term \u2018groomer\u2019 to tar their enemies, its use took off among conservative politicians and pundits\u00a0after Pushaw\u2019s tweet, and has thereafter been widely used to demonize Democrats and educators who discussed sexuality or gender identity with young children,\u201d the piece read.<\/p>\n<p>Pushaw frequently criticizes the media on Twitter, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw\/status\/1552269035122724865\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">referred<\/a> to the author of the Wednesday story, Paul Farhi, as \u201cWashington Post\u2019s Creepiest Reporter.\u201d Her header image on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> is currently a screenshot of a Washington Post Headline from 2020 which reads: \u201cConservatives predict gas prices will spike under Biden. Experts say those fears are overblown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Farhi declined to comment and The Washington Post did not respond to the DCNF\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christina Pushaw, press secretary for Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, tore into the Washington Post Wednesday over a lengthy article criticizing her tweets.The Washington Post published a more than 2,000-word<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"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-1576281","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\/1576281","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\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576281\/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=1576281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}