{"id":1622134,"date":"2022-08-26T03:33:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T07:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1622134"},"modified":"2022-08-26T03:33:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T07:33:46","slug":"nyt-calls-desantis-extreme-because-media-are-so-out-of-touch-with-the-american-people-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-calls-desantis-extreme-because-media-are-so-out-of-touch-with-the-american-people-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT Calls DeSantis Extreme Because Media Are So Out Of Touch With The American People"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fnyt-calls-desantis-extreme-because-media-are-so-out-of-touch-with-the-american-people-2%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=1622134&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>Among the dumber tweets on the internet this week was one by New York Times reporter Shane Goldmacher, in which he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaneGoldmacher\/status\/1561885226862870528\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blurted out<\/a> his thoughts on a TV campaign ad by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot your typical fall pivot to the middle here,\u201d said Goldmacher, who, like virtually everyone else in the national media, is under the delusion that he actually knows where the political center is.<\/p>\n<p>That he doesn\u2019t have the faintest clue is made plain by the fact that the ad he was commenting on wasn\u2019t even political. It was a spoof on the \u201cTop Gun\u201d movie (instead, \u201cTop Gov\u201d) featuring clips of DeSantis\u2019s many confrontations with reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to what people like Goldmacher believe, voters aren\u2019t as concerned about the media being treated sweetly as the media are. If anything, voters often <em>like it <\/em>when they\u2019re not.<\/p>\n<p>But as far as actual policy goes, DeSantis is literally the middle. His approval rating is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wqcs.org\/2022-08-16\/unf-poll-desantis-edges-trump-amongst-florida-republicans-fried-leads-crist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two points higher<\/a> than his disapproval, according to a recent University of North Florida poll. Majorities of Floridians <a href=\"https:\/\/morningconsult.com\/2022\/03\/16\/florida-desantis-dont-say-gay-bill-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">supported<\/a> what has arguably been DeSantis\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/31\/dont-let-gay-chasten-buttigieg-near-your-children-says-nonexistent-desantis-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">most controversial decision<\/a>: signing into law a bill that restricted elementary teachers from instructing children on sexual identity. (Nearly half of even Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/poll-only-52-of-democrats-oppose-floridas-dont-say-gay-policy-214144683.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">supported it<\/a>.) DeSantis has consistently received <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usf.edu\/news\/2021\/university-of-south-florida-researchers-statewide-public-opinion-survey-on-covid-19-biden-desantis-approval-ratings.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">majority approval ratings<\/a> on his administration\u2019s Covid response and its handling of the state\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>The only major policy issue where DeSantis <em>might<\/em> be outside Florida\u2019s mainstream is in his advocacy for the new law that restricts abortions after 15 weeks of fetal development (Abortion bias in particular, however, tends to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/08\/look-how-even-democrat-opinion-shifts-on-abortion-laws-when-polls-stop-using-leftist-framing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">skew polling heavily against pro-lifers<\/a>). One University of North Florida poll found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unf.edu\/uploadedFiles\/aa\/coas\/porl\/UNF%20PORL%20Press%20Release%202-22-22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">57 percent<\/a> of state voters opposed the measure. Not exactly a blowout.<\/p>\n<p>Yet a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/21\/us\/desantis-florida-governor-democrats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">news article<\/a> in the New York Times just this week described DeSantis as \u201ccontrarian\u201d and \u201cpolarizing.\u201d The paper called his political agenda \u201cstrident\u201d and \u201chard-right.\u201d And, naturally, the Times faulted DeSantis for \u201cstoking cultural issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is like when the media referred to every single thing Donald Trump said during the 2016 campaign as \u201cextreme,\u201d which quickly became a synonym for \u201cpopular with a majority of Republicans and independents.\u201d Trump\u2019s proposed \u201cban\u201d on Muslims entering the U.S. was indisputably his most brazen declaration of the election season. So \u201cextreme\u201d was Trump\u2019s call for a ban on noncitizen Muslims that a YouGov poll found that more than half of Americans supported it. Among just independent voters, support was at <a href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/topics\/politics\/articles-reports\/2016\/03\/28\/divide-muslim-neighborhood-patrols\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an astounding 62 percent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even in politics, the \u201cmiddle\u201d should be an easy space to identify. But the media never have any idea where it is.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone\/dp\/1637584350\">Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-comments mt-30 mt-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-comments-container d-flex flex-column align-items-center py-30\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"110\" height=\"106\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/fdrlst-mark.svg\" class=\"img-fluid mb-20\" alt=\"The Federalist logo eagle mark\" \/>    <\/p>\n<p>Unlock commenting by joining the Federalist Community.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/plans\/pricing\/\" class=\"btn btn-on-white\">Subscribe<\/a>  <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the dumber tweets on the internet this week was one by New York Times reporter Shane Goldmacher, in which he blurted out his thoughts on a TV campaign ad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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-1622134","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\/1622134","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622134\/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=1622134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}