{"id":1708456,"date":"2022-10-24T07:36:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T11:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1708456"},"modified":"2022-10-24T07:48:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T11:48:49","slug":"the-walls-are-closing-in-breaking-exclusive-liberal-bombshell-alleges-gov-desantis-mispronounced-the-word-thai-20-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-walls-are-closing-in-breaking-exclusive-liberal-bombshell-alleges-gov-desantis-mispronounced-the-word-thai-20-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"The Walls Are Closing In: Breaking Exclusive Liberal Bombshell Alleges Gov. DeSantis Mispronounced the Word &#8220;Thai&#8221; 20 Years Ago"},"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%2Fthe-walls-are-closing-in-breaking-exclusive-liberal-bombshell-alleges-gov-desantis-mispronounced-the-word-thai-20-years-ago%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=1708456&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 class=\"speakable\">ProPublica reporter Alec MacGillis was mocked on Twitter for suggesting that a piece of decades-old gossip about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/ron-desantis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla.,<\/a> was concerning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">On Saturday, MacGillis shared a lengthy Financial Times report by Joshua Chaffin that described the Florida governor as &#8220;Donald Trump with brains and without the drama.&#8221; Within the massive analysis on DeSantis, MacGillis highlighted a second-hand account of the governor as an undergraduate at Yale University and how he would allegedly leave dates over their reaction to his pronunciation of the phrase &#8220;Thai food.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yikes: \u2018According to a friend, DeSantis would tell dates he liked Thai food, but pronounced it &#8216;thigh.&#8217; If they corrected him, Finch wrote, he would find an excuse to leave. &#8216;He didn\u2019t want a girlfriend who corrected him&#8217;,&#8221; MacGillis tweeted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The story came from author Charles Finch\u2019s pandemic memoir &#8220;What Just Happened: Notes on a Long Year&#8221; where Finch recalled what he knew about DeSantis during their university days.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/640\/320\/Ron-DeSantis.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis listens to a question during a press conference Sept. 7, 2022, in Miami, Fla.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis listens to a question during a press conference Sept. 7, 2022, in Miami, Fla.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(AP Photo\/Rebecca Blackwell)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/joy-reid-jemele-hill-blame-racism-proximity-whiteness-desantis-popularity-hispanics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>JOY REID, JEMELE HILL BLAME RACISM, \u2018PROXIMITY TO WHITENESS\u2019 FOR DESANTIS\u2019 POPULARITY WITH HISPANICS<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The remark along with the accusation was mocked on social media as a poor example of journalistic curiosity and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/liberals-meltdown-desantis-claims-national-regime-media-wanted-hurricane-ian-hit-tampa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an attack on DeSantis.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean. Biden hung out with segregationists and Harris kept innocent men in prison to advance her career, but this is bad too. I guess,&#8221; conservative commentator Chad Felix Greene tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Red State Managing Editor Jennifer Van Laar wrote, &#8220;*This* is what they are slinging at DeSantis? Pathetic. Also, no one wants a boyfriend or girlfriend who corrects them, and if they do it on the first date it&#8217;s a really bad sign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re supposed to save this stuff for a couple of years guys. Pace yourselves,&#8221; The Spectator contributing editor Stephen Miller joked.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/640\/320\/Florida-Gov.-Ron-DeSantis.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at Miami&#039;s Freedom Tower, on Monday, May 9, 2022.\u00a0\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at Miami&#8217;s Freedom Tower, on Monday, May 9, 2022.\u00a0<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(AP Photo\/Marta Lavandier, File)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Journalist Mark Hyman mocked, &#8220;Where do they find such amazing journalists who perform these deep-dive investigations on critical issues? @propublica must be so proud. Next up: what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/washington-post-reporter-mocked-dutifully-reporting-bidens-ice-cream-order-pulitzer-material\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flavor ice cream the president ate<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Guys. I think the walls are closing in on DeSantis. They&#8217;ve finally got him cornered. I don&#8217;t believe he&#8217;ll survive the scandal of a British newspaper&#8217;s investigation revealing that, 25 years ago, when he was a student, he once pronounced Thai as thigh. It&#8217;s over,&#8221; Rebel News journalist Ezra Levant wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;THIS IS WHY PULITZERS,&#8221; Mediaiate editor Caleb Howe tweeted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/joy-reid-claims-desantis-turned-florida-modern-day-version-jim-crow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>JOY REID CLAIMS DESANTIS HAS TURNED FLORIDA INTO A \u2018MODERN-DAY VERSION OF JIM CROW\u2019<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite several tweets criticizing him, MacGillis stood by the tweet and his opinion that this claim about DeSantis was &#8220;striking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He responded to one critic who wrote, &#8220;Damn Alec. You\u2019re one of the few true objective journalists left and you pull and highlight [hearsay] quote from 20 years ago from a &#8216;friend&#8217;. Disappointing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Point taken. But I trust both the quoted author and the FT reporter enough to cite it. It&#8217;s a small but striking detail,&#8221; MacGillis replied.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/640\/320\/Ron-DeSantis-Florida-Supreme-Court-Nomination-2.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Various mainstream media outlets have attacked Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., following his rise in prominence among Republicans.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Various mainstream media outlets have attacked Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., following his rise in prominence among Republicans.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Carl Juste\/Miami Herald\/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The accusation resembled a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/politico-ron-desantis-hit-piece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 Politico report on DeSantis<\/a> that appeared to attack him over &#8220;scarred&#8221; ex-staffers. Social media users similarly called out that story as a &#8220;hit piece&#8221; based on weak accusations and second-hand accounts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Lindsay Kornick is an associate editor for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to lindsay.kornick@fox.com and on Twitter: @lmkornick.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ProPublica reporter Alec MacGillis was mocked on Twitter for suggesting that a piece of decades-old gossip about Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., was concerning.On Saturday, MacGillis shared a lengthy Financial Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1669690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708456","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1669690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}