{"id":1727633,"date":"2022-11-07T06:08:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T11:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1727633"},"modified":"2022-11-07T07:19:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T12:19:23","slug":"dems-desperately-try-to-invent-gov-desantis-scandal-over-him-getting-married-at-disney-over-a-decade-before-publicly-criticizing-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-desperately-try-to-invent-gov-desantis-scandal-over-him-getting-married-at-disney-over-a-decade-before-publicly-criticizing-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Desperately Try to Invent Gov. DeSantis Scandal Over Him Getting Married at Disney Over a  Decade Before Publicly Criticizing Company"},"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\">44<\/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%2Fdems-desperately-try-to-invent-gov-desantis-scandal-over-him-getting-married-at-disney-over-a-decade-before-publicly-criticizing-company%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=1727633&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>Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis is running well ahead of his challenger, Democrat Charlie Crist. Or, at least, he\u00a0<em>was<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, DeSantis might be beating Crist by 11.5 points in the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/governor\/fl\/florida_governor_desantis_vs_crist-7324.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> RealClearPolitics polling<\/a> average with just days until the election. However, that was before The Washington Post broke a scandal that\u2019ll doubtlessly end DeSantis\u2019 hopes at retaking the governor\u2019s mansion, much less challenging for the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>And, let me tell you, this is a hot one. You know how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/country-music-star-luke-bryan-responds-leftist-meltdown-invites-ron-desantis-onstage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DeSantis<\/a> has been locking horns with Disney over the company\u2019s performative opposition to his anti-grooming legislation, with the governor eliminating the company\u2019s tax breaks in a state where its flagship theme park is located?<\/p>\n<p>Well, do you know that, <em>before<\/em> Disney got woke, DeSantis was actually\u00a0<em>married<\/em> at Disney World? <em>Bam<\/em>! <em>Scoop<\/em>! Take <em>that<\/em> truth bomb, mega-MAGA maggots!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, wait, you think that proves absolutely nothing? Huh? Why are you not outraged, conservatives? Why doth thou not wring thine hands and curse thee ground, GOP rabblement?<\/p>\n<div id=\"in-article-trending\" class=\"in-article-more inner-content\">\n<p>Trending:<\/p>\n<div class=\"in-article-more-right\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-manchin-bidens-coal-comments-divorced-reality\/\" data-type=\"Internal link\" data-type-location=\"in-content-trending\">Dem Senator Eviscerates Biden for &#8216;Offensive and Disgusting&#8217; Coal Plant Comments Just Days Before Midterms<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yes, in the ultimate example of journalists misunderstanding cause-and-effect and\/or the time-space continuum, this constituted news with less than a week to go before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-manchin-bidens-coal-comments-divorced-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 midterms<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Before he attacked the company, Ron DeSantis \u2014 who is up for reelection next week \u2014 was a groom walking down the aisle in a Disney wedding. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WoLHVU9bl1\">https:\/\/t.co\/WoLHVU9bl1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/washingtonpost\/status\/1588954585644896257?\">November 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t actually get much better when you read the article.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\" class=\"one-half\">\n<p>Was the Washington Post\u2019s piece a blatant hit on DeSantis?<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results\">\n<p>\nYes: 95% (2004 Votes)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNo: 5% (103 Votes)\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has been on the offense against the Walt Disney Co. for months, criticizing the entertainment giant for opposing legislation he championed and signing a law to strip the company of its special taxing district,\u201d the Post\u2019s Hannah Sampson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/travel\/2022\/11\/04\/ron-desantis-casey-disney-wedding\/?utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_campaign=wp_main\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore he attacked the company, DeSantis \u2014 who is up for reelection next week \u2014 was a groom walking down the aisle in a Disney wedding. He and his wife, Jill Casey Black, a former anchor at Jacksonville news station WJXT who goes by Casey, wed at Walt Disney World on Sept. 26, 2009.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This actually wasn\u2019t the Post\u2019s scoop, either. It was technically first reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ron-and-casey-desantis-got-married-at-disney-world-2022-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Business Insider<\/a> on Friday, although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/06\/us\/casey-desantis-ron-desantis-florida.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a> confirmed last month that DeSantis\u2019 marriage license said he was married in Lake Buena Vista, a city that\u2019s controlled by Disney as part of the Disney World complex.<\/p>\n<p>Unless he got married in the parking lot \u2014 and I doubt the Harvard Law grad was that penurious \u2014 he got married at Disney World. Thirteen years ago.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s nine years and change before he became governor and 12 years before Disney gave him a solid reason to actively battle the company\u2019s blatant mischaracterization of the Parental Rights in Education Act, referred to colloquially by the left as the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wj-live-6-sick-vids-show-called-dont-say-gay-law-needs-50-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Don\u2019t Say Gay<\/a>\u201d bill. The animus isn\u2019t due to the fact Belle from \u201cBeauty and the Beast\u201d wanted the town bookstore to stock up on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tlaib-goes-unhinged-rant-parents-concerned-crt-schools-continue-pushing-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">critical race theory<\/a> or because Mickey\u2019s helium addiction sets a bad example for the kids \u2014 and it certainly didn\u2019t exist 13 years prior.<\/p>\n<div id=\"in-article-related\" class=\"in-article-more inner-content\">\n<p>Related:<\/p>\n<div class=\"in-article-more-right\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/desantis-election-crime-unit-makes-another-major-illegal-voting-arrest-connected-elections-multiple-states\/\" data-type=\"Internal link\" data-type-location=\"in-content-related\">DeSantis&#8217; Election Crime Unit Makes Another Major Illegal Voting Arrest Connected to Elections in Multiple States<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>But, no, this is what passes for news at the Post: \u201cBruce Hamilton, a longtime anchor at WJXT, told The Washington Post on Friday that he was at the 2009 Disney wedding. Another station employee, wedding guest and former co-worker of the bride confirmed the Disney location in an email to The Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHamilton said the ceremony, at the wedding chapel of the Victorian-style Grand Floridian Resort, was \u2018very elegant.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I totally thought this was a nothingburger until I heard it characterized as \u201cvery elegant.\u201d Now I\u2019m going to send Charlie Crist a huge donation \u2014 and Florida-adjacent Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/stacey-abrams-torched-vile-disgusting-attack-sheriffs-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stacey Abrams<\/a>, too, just to hem the poor sod in.<\/p>\n<p>Mediaite\u2019s John Ziegler may have best summed up the foolishness at work here:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I once liked O.J. Simpson a lot too\u2026 until, weirdly, something changed in June of 1994\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OihpXK0Q2s\">pic.twitter.com\/OihpXK0Q2s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Ziegler (@Zigmanfreud) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Zigmanfreud\/status\/1589045910088318976?\">November 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He wasn\u2019t the only one who noticed how desperate this seemed:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Imagine being the editor who greenlit this story. Just imagine.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Wagner (@andrewwagner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewwagner\/status\/1588976638070755328?\">November 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I don\u2019t think you appreciate the level of hatred and contempt the average person feels toward your publication.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Malice (@michaelmalice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelmalice\/status\/1588983347396898817?\">November 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is what the Post, once the nation\u2019s premier outlet for political reporting, is reduced to. The paper that broke <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gop-senator-says-media-using-watergate-tactic-hunter-bidens-laptop-hide-biden-family-influence-peddlers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watergate<\/a> is now tracking down people at Ron DeSantis\u2019 Disney wedding to find out how elegant it was and pretending it all means something.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t. None of it does. The only reason anyone is going to remember that DeSantis got married at Disney is because of the terminally silly coverage the media has subjected us to in the vain hope that some of it will stick. Good luck with that.<\/p>\n<div id=\"author-info-44670\" class=\"author-info inner-content\">\n<div class=\"author-image\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/cillianzeal\/\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/static.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/profile-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-meta-text\">\n<p>Contributor, Commentary<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-tabs\">\n<input type=\"radio\" name=\"ff-author-tab-44670\" value=\"summary-tab\" id=\"summary-tab-radio-44670\" checked \/><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-44670\">Summary<\/label><input type=\"radio\" name=\"ff-author-tab-44670\" value=\"more-info-tab\" id=\"more-info-tab-radio-44670\" \/><label for=\"more-info-tab-radio-44670\">More<span class=\"rmation\"> Biographical Information<\/span><\/label><input type=\"radio\" name=\"ff-author-tab-44670\" value=\"posts-tab\" id=\"posts-tab-radio-44670\" \/><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-44670\">Recent<span class=\"rmation\"> Posts<\/span><\/label><input type=\"radio\" name=\"ff-author-tab-44670\" value=\"contact-tab\" id=\"contact-tab-radio-44670\" \/><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-44670\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-tab summary-tab\">\n<p>C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he&#8217;s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-tab more-info-tab\">\n<p>\nC. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he&#8217;s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014. Aside from politics, he enjoys spending time with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBirthplace\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMorristown, New Jersey\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEducation\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCatholic University of America\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLanguages Spoken\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEnglish, Spanish\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTopics of Expertise\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAmerican Politics, World Politics, Culture\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis is running well ahead of his challenger, Democrat Charlie Crist. Or, at least, he\u00a0was. 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