{"id":1778699,"date":"2022-12-17T06:30:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T11:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1778699"},"modified":"2022-12-17T11:04:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T16:04:25","slug":"karol-markowicz-the-medias-deranged-obsession-with-ron-desantis-even-before-he-declares-for-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/karol-markowicz-the-medias-deranged-obsession-with-ron-desantis-even-before-he-declares-for-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Karol Markowicz: The Media\u2019s Deranged Obsession With Ron DeSantis \u2014 Even Before He Declares for 2024"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fkarol-markowicz-the-medias-deranged-obsession-with-ron-desantis-even-before-he-declares-for-2024%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=1778699&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--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>It\u2019s poised to be a long two years for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Fresh off a nearly 20-point re-election win, and not yet having even announced his intention to run for president in 2024, DeSantis has become media enemy No. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Take the case of Rebekah Jones, a pretend whistleblower who alleged with zero evidence that Florida was hiding its true COVID death rate. This week, in a deal with prosecutors, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/news\/florida-covid-data-critic-rebekah-jones-reaches-agreement-on-felony-charge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">she admitted<\/a> illegally accessing a state computer. She\u2019d been a media darling because of her attacks on DeSantis. <\/p>\n<p>On her website, Jones helpfully <a href=\"https:\/\/geojones.org\/2020\/07\/15\/media-portfolio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">compiled<\/a> a list of credulous media outlets that ran her false claims without checking. CNN, The Washington Post, MSNBC, Yahoo News, The Miami Herald and so on all fell for her lies, some many times over.<\/p>\n<p>Much is made of Republicans choosing poor-quality candidates but Jones was most recently the Democratic nominee for Congress from Florida\u2019s 1st Congressional District. She lost, thankfully, but that was just weeks before her guilty plea.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/obsession-with-desantis-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/obsession-with-desantis-4.jpg\" alt=\"In a deal with prosecutors, Jones admitted to illegally accessing a state computer.\" class=\"wp-image-25031891\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/obsession-with-desantis-4.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/obsession-with-desantis-4.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1152 1152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/obsession-with-desantis-4.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=768 768w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/obsession-with-desantis-4.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=384 384w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/obsession-with-desantis-4.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/a><figcaption>Rebekah Jones alleged with zero evidence that Florida was hiding its true COVID death rate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Have any of the media outlets repented? Apologized? Of course not. Stopping a potential DeSantis presidential candidacy is their first priority and admitting they were had, or complicit, in Jones\u2019 lies would be a setback.<\/p>\n<p>The Miami Herald, unable to give up its solidarity with Jones, this week even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/politics-government\/state-politics\/article269880147.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ran an incorrect headline<\/a> alleging, \u201cCharges against former state health department worker dismissed after she admits guilt.\u201d The admission of guilt is just one of the six special conditions Jones will have to meet, including paying a hefty $20,000 fine and attending therapy, before those charges get dropped in two years.<\/p>\n<p>For over two years, the media held up Jones as evidence DeSantis hadn\u2019t managed the pandemic as successfully as it seemed. Now they <em>should<\/em> admit DeSantis was right and the pro-lockdown blue-state governors they so love were wrong.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/obsession-with-desantis-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/obsession-with-desantis-3.jpg\" alt=\"Reid said that Florida schools were not teaching critical race theory.\" class=\"wp-image-25031892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/obsession-with-desantis-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/obsession-with-desantis-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/obsession-with-desantis-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Joy Reid accused DeSantis of turning Florida into a \u201cpetri dish for everything on 4Chan.\u201d <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">MSNBC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Or look at MSNBC\u2019s Joy Reid, who this week accused DeSantis of turning Florida into a \u201cpetri dish for everything on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tag\/4chan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">4<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tag\/4chan\/\">Chan<\/a>.\u201d Said Reid, \u201cIf you go by Ron DeSantis\u2019 agenda you would think the most important things happening in Florida are Critical Race Theory, which makes white children feel sad; library books that need to be banned; not stopping COVID, you got to let COVID in your school; drag brunch, and Disney World making movies with too many gay people in them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/24\/joy-reid-shuts-out-critical-race-theory-critic-during-debate\/\"> Reid said critical race theory wasn\u2019t being used in schools<\/a>, so this is already a welcome step toward reality for her. And yes, Floridians don\u2019t want pornographic books in their children\u2019s school libraries, and they know that no one, anywhere, \u201cstopped\u201d COVID from getting into their schools. All that was stopped, in places (<em>unlike<\/em> Florida) where kids couldn\u2019t go to school in person for much of 2020 and 2021, was the education of children. Florida put kids first, instead of teachers\u2019 unions, and the Joy Reids of the world will never forgive that.<\/p>\n<p>As for Disney, it inserted itself into a debate on the very popular Parental Rights in Education law passed in Florida. The media worked itself into a froth openly rooting for DeSantis to be bludgeoned by the Mouse. What happened instead is that<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/21\/bob-iger-is-back-as-ceo-to-walk-disney-back-from-the-woke-cliff\/\"> Disney replaced its CEO <\/a>and made motions to walk back from the woke cliff it had put itself on by listening to a few activist employees. The battle isn\u2019t over yet but so far, to the media\u2019s chagrin, it\u2019s DeSantis 1, Disney 0.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/media-obsession-desantis-0002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/media-obsession-desantis-0002.jpg\" alt=\"Jones helpfully compiled a list of credulous media outlets who ran her false claims without checking.\" class=\"wp-image-25031893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/media-obsession-desantis-0002.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1366 1366w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/media-obsession-desantis-0002.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/media-obsession-desantis-0002.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=683 683w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/media-obsession-desantis-0002.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=342 341w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Rebekah Jones had become a media darling following her claims. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">via REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then there\u2019s New York magazine\u2019s Jonathan Chait. Chait <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2022\/06\/ron-desantis-florida-children-under-5-covid-vaccine-only-governor-ladapo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has become<\/a> Elmer J. Fudd to DeSantis\u2019 Bugs Bunny. Chait is obsessed with the idea that the governor is \u201canti-vax.\u201d This was first based on the gov\u2019s (correct) opposition to a vax <em>mandate<\/em>, later shifting to his new plan (also good) to probe COVID claims made by pharmaceutical companies.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019d think a journalist would want to see powerful corporations held accountable if they\u2019ve done anything wrong. But Fudd only has one goal: He\u2019ll get you <em>next <\/em>time, wascawwy wabbit!<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the media upstart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/12\/04\/2022\/desantis-press-favorite-outlets\">Sem<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/12\/04\/2022\/desantis-press-favorite-outlets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/12\/04\/2022\/desantis-press-favorite-outlets\">for blasted<\/a> DeSantis for not sitting down with such venerable media outlets such as \u201cThe View.\u201d Why DeSantis would pass on chatting with such fair \u201cjournalists\u201d as Joy Behar, who said it looked like he was having a stroke during his gubernatorial debate, or Ana Navarro, who taunted him for taking federal relief funds for hurricane victims, will remain a mystery for the ages.<\/p>\n<p>Any Republican running for president understands that the media will attempt to kneecap them at every opportunity. What\u2019s interesting about their DeSantis targeting is that, well, he\u2019s not a presidential candidate, at least not yet. The press is getting ahead of itself and letting fear of DeSantis guide its coverage.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis is good at battling with the media but he\u2019s taking the smart approach and ignoring them altogether. He doesn\u2019t need them \u2014 and it drives them crazy. Keep going.<\/p>\n<p><em>Twitter: @Karol<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s poised to be a long two years for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Fresh off a nearly 20-point re-election win, and not yet having even announced his intention<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1778702,"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":[4506,5458,4468,9919,4980,7599,7598,8250,9600,3819,3618,8679],"class_list":["post-1778699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-4506","tag-bongino","tag-declares","tag-deranged","tag-desantis","tag-karol","tag-markowicz","tag-medias","tag-obsession","tag-report","tag-riot","tag-ron"],"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\/1778699","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=1778699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1778702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}