{"id":629435,"date":"2021-08-10T11:51:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T15:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=629435"},"modified":"2021-08-10T11:51:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T15:51:54","slug":"death-cult-the-5-most-unhinged-media-attacks-on-ron-desantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/death-cult-the-5-most-unhinged-media-attacks-on-ron-desantis\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Death Cult\u2019: The 5 Most Unhinged Media Attacks On Ron DeSantis"},"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\">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%2Fdeath-cult-the-5-most-unhinged-media-attacks-on-ron-desantis%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=629435&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\/08\/GettyImages-1316869621.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As President Joe Biden continues to fume over missing his self-imposed goal of having 70% of Americans vaccinated by the Fourth of July, he and the legacy media have increasingly turned their ire against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R).<\/p>\n<p>Here are five of the most unhinged attacks from the last five days alone:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1) Jim Acosta: Call the Delta Variant the \u2018DeSantis Variant\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On \u201cCNN Newsroom\u201d Saturday afternoon, Jim Acosta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sTtn4m5dnTQ&amp;t=312s\">said<\/a> Ron DeSantis bears so much responsibility for the spread of the Delta variant that it should be named after him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeSantis is a graduate of Harvard Law and Yale. \u2026 Anybody who\u2019s gone to an elite university not only passed a science class, but should also value expertise,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd the experts are telling us to listen to the science, that it\u2019s better to be vaccinated, that masks will help in areas where COVID rates are soaring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Acosta said that DeSantis, and Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO) and John Kennedy (R-LA) \u201cmay end up owning the pandemic, because they\u2019re prolonging it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps it\u2019s time to start naming these new variants that may be coming out after them. Instead of the Delta variant, why not call it \u2018The DeSantis variant\u2019?\u201d Acosta asked. \u201cWe could sell beer koozies that say, \u2018Don\u2019t Florida my Fauci\u2019 and use the money to help pay for all the funerals that\u2019ll be coming in the days to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>2) Mika Brzezinski: DeSantis, Leader of a \u2018Death Cult\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Monday\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe,\u201d MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski named the governor of the Sunshine State as the leader of a dark and shadowy \u201cdeath cult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Florida, we have a governor more interested in playing politics than saving lives,\u201d she said before repeating Acosta\u2019s statement that the Delta Variant should be called \u201cThe DeSantis variant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you kidding me?\u201d she said, her voice rising. \u201cThis is completely preventable, and the governor of Florida owns this one. The most tragic part of this story is that almost all of these hospitalizations and deaths would have, and could have, been avoided if misguided Americans had not followed the crazed teachings of a growing death cult and instead just followed the advice of their family doctor. It\u2019s pretty easy, and they won\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s death cult material,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r3AR2cthA68\">reiterated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3) Associated Press reporter Jonathan Lemire: DeSantis \u2018Tops the List\u2019 of Governors Making People Sick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite appearances, President Joe Biden hasn\u2019t taken aim at Governor DeSantis and <em>certainly <\/em>doesn\u2019t want a confrontation with the potential 2024 Republican presidential nominee, according to Jonathan Lemire, who covers the White House for the most widely distributed news service, the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Lemire told MSNBC\u2019s \u201cThe 11<sup>th<\/sup> Hour with Brian Williams\u201d on Friday that President Biden has \u201ctaken square aim in recent days at the Republican governors who, as he put it, have gotten in the way of trying to safeguard the American people. And Governor DeSantis certainly tops the list.\u201d Thus, DeSantis is responsible for Biden\u2019s decision to lash out at him publicly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a fight the White House wants,\u201d Lemire <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/11thHour\/status\/1423856487412211713\">told<\/a> guest host Ali Velshi, but it is evidence of the frustration that the president and senior officials in the West Wing and health officials elsewhere in the government feel about the American response right now to the pandemic, that this is something where they should feel like, we should be further ahead than we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet the White House \u201ccan\u2019t give [the vaccines] away \u2026 because [of] the influence of the former president and his disciples including the Republican governor of Florida \u2026 And people are getting sick.\u201d Lemire predicted, \u201cThis sort of stern, almost scolding, tone is now what we\u2019re going to hear from the president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>4) Teachers Union Leader Randi Weingarten: DeSantis Leads \u2018Disinformation Campaign\u2019 that\u2019s \u2018Hurting\u2019 Children<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ron DeSantis personally leads the vast army of COVID-19 deniers and misinformation agents, said American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten on Sunday\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe disinformation campaign and what the people like [Texas] Governor [Greg] Abbott and Governor DeSantis are doing, they are hurting people in terms of their public health by this disinformation campaign,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IrZaR-Dnn78&amp;t=1682s\">said<\/a> Weingarten.<\/p>\n<p>She then dragged Fox News into the indictment. \u201cI know I will now get a huge amount of pushback from Fox when I\u2019m about to say this,\u201d she said. \u201cFox \u2014 that disinformation campaign is terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>5) Democrat Charlie Crist: An \u2018Authoritarian\u2019 Who is \u2018Playing Russian Roulette\u2019 with Floridians\u2019 lives<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist, who is running to unseat DeSantis, got a free campaign commercial on \u201cCuomo Prime Time\u201d last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur governor is playing Russian roulette with the people of Florida,\u201d Crist, a former Republican-turned-Democrat, told Chris Cuomo. \u201cIt\u2019s appalling to see. And I think he\u2019s doing it for political reasons that are beyond his reelect in 2022,\u201d said Crist (who may have attacked him for political reasons of his own). \u201cI think it goes to his desire to be the Republican nominee for president in 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then equated DeSantis\u2019 decision to bar school districts from issuing mask mandates with fascism. \u201cI don\u2019t know what kind of authoritarian leader he\u2019s trying to be,\u201d Crist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CuomoPrimeTime\/status\/1423464409989533700\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.045112781955\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;For this governor it seems to be safety last and it&#8217;s awful, it&#8217;s truly awful,&#8221; says former Democratic Rep. Charlie Crist, who plans to run against Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EpVyeWgEsc\">pic.twitter.com\/EpVyeWgEsc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cuomo Prime Time (@CuomoPrimeTime) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CuomoPrimeTime\/status\/1423464409989533700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Governor DeSantis\u2019 Office Responds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The governor\u2019s office says this vastly misstates the facts about the state and the governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernor DeSantis has made over 1,600 public remarks speaking positively of the vaccines, most recently at his press conferences last week,\u201d Governor DeSantis\u2019 spokesperson, Christina Pushaw, told The Daily Wire. She pointed to the governor\u2019s record of success.<\/p>\n<p>Florida has the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prb.org\/resources\/which-us-states-are-the-oldest\/\">second-largest<\/a> proportion of senior citizens in the nation, behind Maine. Yet the state\u2019s death rate per 1,000 over the last week is <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#cases_deathsper100klast7days\">slightly below<\/a> the national average, including states like New York and Pennsylvania, which have taken far more restrictive measures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlorida demonstrates that lockdowns of the entire population are unnecessary; their harms outweigh any possible benefit. Much more beneficial is focusing protection on the most vulnerable individuals, as Governor DeSantis has done,\u201d said Pushaw. Nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/coronavirus-covid-19\/vaccine-tracker\">99%<\/a> of the state\u2019s senior citizens have had at least one dose of the vaccine, according to the Mayo Clinic, above the national average.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor proof of legacy media corruption, look no further than the legacy media\u2019s reporting on the COVID surge in Louisiana versus Florida,\u201d she continued. \u201cLouisiana has a higher COVID prevalence than Florida. I do not believe that\u2019s because of anything that Governor [John] Bel Edwards did or didn\u2019t do; the virus appears to be having a seasonal surge in the South. But it\u2019s simply outrageous for the media to blame Florida\u2019s governor for every COVID spike in Florida, when they do not hold Democratic Governors (such as the governor of Louisiana) to the same ridiculous standard,\u201d Pushaw said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is obvious that legacy media, and their allies in the Democratic Party, are afraid of Governor DeSantis \u2013 because his leadership in keeping Florida free demonstrates that their preferred policies of lockdowns and mandates are pointlessly harmful,\u201d said Pushaw. \u201cThey cannot admit they were wrong, so they attack Governor DeSantis instead of reporting the facts about Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch transparent political activism masquerading as journalism may explain why Americans\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trust-in-media-hits-record-low-new-study-blames-readers-for-lack-of-confidence\">trust in the mainstream media is at an all-time low<\/a>,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>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&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As President Joe Biden continues to fume over missing his self-imposed goal of having 70% of Americans vaccinated by the Fourth of July, he and the legacy media have increasingly &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629435","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=629435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}