{"id":1804069,"date":"2023-01-12T16:05:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T21:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1804069"},"modified":"2023-01-12T16:15:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T21:15:31","slug":"liberal-media-incensed-that-gov-desantis-wont-play-their-little-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-media-incensed-that-gov-desantis-wont-play-their-little-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Media Incensed That Gov. DeSantis Won\u2019t Play Their Little Game"},"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%2Fliberal-media-incensed-that-gov-desantis-wont-play-their-little-game%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=1804069&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-->\n<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) didn\u2019t do a single interview with a liberal news outlet during his campaign last year for governor \u2014 and he won in a landslide.<\/p>\n<p>With DeSantis frequently mentioned as a frontrunner in the 2024 GOP presidential nomination race, outlets such as The New York Times are squealing over the diss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough he courted right-wing podcasters and conservative Fox News hosts, Mr. DeSantis did not grant an extensive interview to a national nonpartisan news organization during his 2022 re-election bid \u2014 and he coasted to victory, with Rupert Murdoch\u2019s media empire now promoting him as a 2024 contender,\u201d The paper was published on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In a piece <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230111065852\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/10\/business\/media\/ron-desantis-media-journalists.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&#038;referringSource=articleShare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">headline<\/a> \u201cCan Ron DeSantis Avoid Meeting the Press?\u201d \u2014 spoiler alert: the answer is yes \u2014 the whiny author told an anecdote about how DeSantis operates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAssigned to cover the re-election campaign of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, Miles Cohen, a young ABC News reporter, found himself stymied. The governor would not grant him an interview. Aides barred him from some campaign events and interrupted his conversations with supporters,\u201d author Michael M. Grynbaum wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Mr. Cohen was finally able to ask a question about the governor\u2019s handling of Hurricane Ian, Mr. DeSantis shouted him down \u2014 \u2018Stop, stop, stop\u2019 \u2014 and scolded the media for \u2018trying to cast aspersions.\u2019 The DeSantis campaign then taunted Mr. Cohen on Twitter, prompting a torrent of online vitriol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But, of course, it\u2019s clear that the Times would never give DeSantis a fair shake, so why should he bother to sit with them for an interview? While avid newshounds have known for decades that America\u2019s \u201cpaper of record\u201d Trump was a liberal ex-president and exposed the Times for what it really is.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis has avoided any other biased outlets or shows. A producer is someone who produces. \u201cThe View\u201d He was invited to chat with Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg, who are hardcore liberals. He simply replied. \u201cnuh uh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he was interviewed by Will Witt, the 26 year-old founder and CEO of Florida Standard, a conservative website launched just a few days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Witt, who gained a strong following as an emerging conservative pundit for PragerU&#8217;s nonprofit video producer PragerU was highly praised DeSantis. \u201cIt\u2019s so nice when you have someone who recognizes what you\u2019re doing and really appreciates it,\u201d He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/12\/04\/2022\/desantis-press-favorite-outlets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telled<\/a> Semafor.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis hasn\u2019t gone as far as former President Trump, who often called the media the \u201cenemy of the people.\u201d But he also hasn\u2019t gone easy on them, either.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that the press was rooting for the destruction of Fort Myers in Florida after a major hurricane last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dQuite frankly, you have national regime media that they wanted to see Tampa, because they thought that that\u2019d be worse for Florida. That\u2019s how these people think,\u201d DeSantis said during the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tWtNWmtJsDM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interview<\/a> Florida Voice is another conservative outlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t care about the people of this state. They don\u2019t care about this community. They want to use storms and destruction from storms as a way to advance their agenda,\u201d He stated. \u201cIf they can use it to pursue their political agenda, they will do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Griffin, a spokesman for DeSantis, confirmed the governor\u2019s beliefs in an <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/3678541-desantis-steps-up-attacks-on-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Email<\/a> To The Hill<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernor DeSantis is absolutely correct in his assertion: many people in the media have shamefully capitalized on the tragedy of Hurricane Ian to push their political agenda,\u201d Griffin said.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an awful lot of time before the 2024 elections, and liberal outlets will be more demanding. But DeSantis should stick to his guns \u2014 and he should certainly skip any debate held by a liberal network.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl is a 35-year veteran of politics, having served 12 years as White House correspondent in a national newspaper. He was also the Drudge Report&#8217;s morning editor for four years. Send tips to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"117b7e627461797264637d517570787d68667863743f727e7c\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a> Follow him @josephcurl on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) didn\u2019t do a single interview with a liberal news outlet during his campaign last year for governor \u2014 and he won in a landslide. Now, with DeSantis being mentioned often as a frontrunner for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, outlets like The New York Times have got their undies in a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":1731611,"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":[541],"tags":[6202,4980,6528,8338,14652,5206,4188,4599,6195,4324],"class_list":["post-1804069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-daily","tag-desantis","tag-game","tag-gov","tag-incensed","tag-liberal","tag-media","tag-play","tag-wire","tag-wont"],"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\/1804069","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1731611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}