{"id":558819,"date":"2021-06-09T21:51:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T01:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=558819"},"modified":"2021-06-09T21:51:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T01:51:15","slug":"exclusive-desantis-media-elevates-wrong-liberal-heroes-to-sainthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-desantis-media-elevates-wrong-liberal-heroes-to-sainthood\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: DeSantis: Media Elevates \u2018Wrong\u2019 Liberal Heroes To Sainthood"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fexclusive-desantis-media-elevates-wrong-liberal-heroes-to-sainthood%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=558819&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Untitled-design-3-scaled-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>MIAMI \u2014 During a Monday interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation, Gov. Ron DeSantis joked that the media elevates the wrong heroes \u201cbasically\u201d to \u201csainthood\u201d in order to combat figures like former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Republican sat down for an interview with the DCNF\u2019s Mary Margaret Olohan in Miami, Florida, where he discussed how he handled <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/07\/ron-desantis-country-music-festival-fauci\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lockdowns<\/a>\u00a0in his state, Dr. Anthony Fauci\u2019s leaked\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/02\/fauci-emails-muzzle-trump-biden-immigration-video-discussion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">emails<\/a>, transgender athletes in sports and more.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/18\/kayleigh-mcenany-conservative-women-media-mary-margaret-olohan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Kayleigh McEnany Reflects On Media\u2019s Bias Against Conservative Women)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re going to pick someone to be your liberal hero, they seem to be picking the wrong people,\u201d DeSantis said, discussing how the media treated his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic versus how the media treated Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean to pick Cuomo, the guy\u2019s had a lot of problems,\u201d DeSantis said with a laugh. \u201cAnd then they elevated Fauci to basically sainthood, and yet we\u2019ve seen Fauci\u2019s been wrong about so many different things, and clearly he wasn\u2019t honest with the American people about the origins of COVID.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if you\u2019re going to try to create a hero against your bad guy, if it\u2019s Trump or whoever else, at least get it right,\u201d the governor added. \u201cIt seems like the people they\u2019re picking end up having a lot of problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ron DeSantis Slams Dr. Fauci After LEAKED Emails Reignite Wuhan Lab Leak Theories\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YxyilvmW7XA?start=403&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>The governor referred to \u201cnonsense\u201d that media have accused him of, such as when \u201c60 Minutes\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/06\/cbs-60-minutes-ron-desantis-gavin-newsom-contract-blue-shield\/\">suggested<\/a> that DeSantis picked the grocery store chain Publix to distribute vaccines for Palm Beach County because the company had donated $100,000 to his political committee. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/06\/cbs-60-minutes-ron-desantis-gavin-newsom-contract-blue-shield\/\">(RELATED: BACKFIRED: CBS\u2019s Failed Hit On DeSantis Ends Up Highlighting California Governor\u2019s \u2018No Bid\u2019 Vaccine Contract)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese guys are not honest brokers. They\u2019re bad actors in corporate media, I mean the CBS\u2019s the NBC\u2019s, so just understand that. Do not let them deter you from doing the right thing, and fight back against them. And when you do that, the people are with ya.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI \u2014 During a Monday interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation, Gov. Ron DeSantis joked that the media elevates the wrong heroes \u201cbasically\u201d to \u201csainthood\u201d in order to combat &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279831,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Untitled-design-3-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"EXCLUSIVE: DeSantis: Media Elevates \u2018Wrong\u2019 Liberal Heroes To Sainthood","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Untitled-design-3-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"EXCLUSIVE: DeSantis: Media Elevates \u2018Wrong\u2019 Liberal Heroes To Sainthood","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558819","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=558819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}