{"id":572484,"date":"2021-06-24T07:21:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T11:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=572484"},"modified":"2021-06-24T07:21:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T11:21:37","slug":"media-melts-down-over-desantis-latest-action-on-colleges-panics-as-he-rises-to-top-of-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-melts-down-over-desantis-latest-action-on-colleges-panics-as-he-rises-to-top-of-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Melts Down Over DeSantis\u2019 Latest Action On Colleges, Panics As He Rises To Top Of GOP"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fmedia-melts-down-over-desantis-latest-action-on-colleges-panics-as-he-rises-to-top-of-gop%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=572484&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\/DeSantis-2-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law this week aimed at ending extreme left-wing political indoctrination on college campuses by requiring state colleges and universities to conduct annual assessments of the viewpoint diversity and intellectual freedom at their institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of House Bill 233, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flgov.com\/2021\/06\/22\/governor-ron-desantis-signs-legislation-to-set-the-pace-for-civics-education-in-america\/\">signed<\/a> into law on Tuesday, is to \u201censure that Florida\u2019s postsecondary students will be shown diverse ideas and opinions, including those that they may disagree with or find uncomfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the law:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p><em>The State Board of Education shall select or create an objective, nonpartisan, and statistically valid survey to be used by each institution which considers the extent to which competing ideas and perspectives are presented and members of the college community, including students, faculty, and staff, feel free to express their beliefs and viewpoints on campus and in the classroom. The Board of Governors shall annually compile and publish the assessments by September 1 of each year, beginning on September 1, 2022.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt used to be thought that a university campus was a place where you\u2019d be exposed to a lot of different ideas,\u201d DeSantis said at a press conference this week. \u201cUnfortunately, now the norm is really these are more intellectually repressive environments, you have orthodoxies that are promoted and other viewpoints are shunned, or even suppressed. We don\u2019t want that in Florida, you need to have a true contest of ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis repeatedly stressed the importance of intellectual diversity on college campuses and noted that many parents are worried about what will happen to their kids when they enroll in postsecondary education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe obviously want our universities to be focused on critical thinking, academic rigor; we do not want them as basically hotbeds for stale ideology. That\u2019s not worth tax dollars,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s not something that we\u2019re going to be supporting, going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo weeks ago, at my direction, the State Board of Education took action to stop Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project curriculum from being a part of our school system,\u201d DeSantis continued. \u201cWe do not want curriculum that is judging students based on their race and we do not want false history, like you see with the 1619 Project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the media has started to panic over a conservative politician wielding power to push back on the far-left indoctrination that is occurring on the campuses of America\u2019s colleges and universities.<\/p>\n<p>In response to DeSantis\u2019 actions, far-left MSNBC propagandist Joy Reid had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UKolaHg-wRU\">deranged<\/a> meltdown on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/joy-reid-msnbc-worst-week-ever\">failing television show<\/a>, suggesting that DeSantis was trying to turn Florida into communist China and calling him \u201cRon Comrade DeSantis.\u201d Fellow far-left MSNBC propagandist Chris Hayes was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EAOpCTdF7k4\">outraged<\/a> that DeSantis signed a bill into law that mandates that students be taught about the evils of communism, which is responsible for the deaths of roughly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/100-years-of-communismand-100-million-dead-1510011810\">100 million<\/a> people. The fact that these two media personalities have to lie about what DeSantis is doing \u2014 trying to promote intellectual diversity, which the political Left despises \u2014 shows that they fear him because of the impact that he is having.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis spoke specifically about how some people will see on some college campuses that murderous communist dictator Mao Zedong is treated \u201cpositively\u201d and that people are walking around sporting shirts of Che Guevara, whom DeSantis correctly noted was a \u201ccommunist thug.\u201d DeSantis said that he wants to stop the whitewashing of the horrors committed by these communists. Reid and Hayes oppose this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe power comes from our Creator to the people, not to the government,\u201d DeSantis added at the press conference as he noted that students will be taught the historical truth about the United States. \u201cWe the people create a Constitution with the power, that\u2019s our natural rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aside from DeSantis\u2019 recent action to stem far-left indoctrination in the public school system, others in the media have sought to tie him directly to former President Donald Trump in an apparent effort to turn off as many Independent voters and moderate Democrat voters to DeSantis before they get a chance to make their own assessment of him.<\/p>\n<p>Washington Post columnist Max Boot, a supposed conservative who has encouraged people to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/global-opinions\/sick-and-tired-of-trump-heres-what-to-do\/2018\/10\/31\/72d9021e-dd26-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html\">vote<\/a> only for Democrats, claimed without evidence in his latest piece of Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/06\/22\/ron-desantis-is-showing-trump-level-skill-waging-culture-war\/\">propaganda<\/a>\u00a0 that DeSantis was trying to show \u201ca genius for appealing to every disreputable prejudice of the GOP base.\u201d Another notorious, although craftier, propagandist at The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/22\/so-when-is-trump-going-turn-ron-desantis\/\">wrote<\/a> a piece trying to cause conflict between Trump and DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p>The pieces come as a recent straw poll from a top conservative political summit found that DeSantis was the candidate that attendees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-desantis-beats-trump-in-2024-straw-poll-at-top-conservative-summit\">most approved of to be president<\/a>, beating Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat DeSantis is doing is offering Trumpism without a) Trump himself or b) the crazy conspiracy theories about the 2020 election,\u201d CNN blogger Chris Cillizza <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/06\/23\/politics\/ron-desantis-florida-governor-2024-donald-trump\/index.html\">wrote<\/a> this week. \u201cAnd it appears to be working.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cillizza noted that \u201can attempted expos\u00e9 by \u201960 Minutes\u2019 that suggested a link between a campaign donation and vaccine distribution in the state turned into an utter debacle for CBS \u2014 and manna from heaven for DeSantis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe\u201d appeared to try to cause conflict between DeSantis and Trump this week, hoping that the latter will attack the former, by noting that DeSantis does not have Trump\u2019s weaknesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe fights all the same fights on issues and on cultural questions that President Trump fought and continues to fight. But he does it without the exhaustion,\u201d left-wing commentator Willie Geist said. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t come with all the drama.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe checks all the boxes,\u201d co-host Joe Scarborough said. \u201cThis news about DeSantis is the best news Mitch McConnell has heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be very interesting to watch, Joe, as DeSantis is elevated by the party, whether in public ways or private ways, how Donald Trump takes that news, because he still wants everyone to believe that he is the leader of the party. And he still is, at the moment. And he still wants everyone to believe that he is going to run again in 2024,\u201d Geist added.\u00a0\u201cBut as DeSantis\u2019 name comes up again, and again, and again, among Republicans, it feels like a matter of time before Donald Trump turns on him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law this week aimed at ending extreme left-wing political indoctrination on college campuses by requiring state colleges and universities to conduct &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281186,"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\/DeSantis-2-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Media Melts Down Over DeSantis\u2019 Latest Action On Colleges, Panics As He Rises To Top Of GOP","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572484","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\/DeSantis-2-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Media Melts Down Over DeSantis\u2019 Latest Action On Colleges, Panics As He Rises To Top Of GOP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572484","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=572484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}