Ron DeSantis truly is the gold standard for Republicans: a natural-born fighter, he picks his battles carefully, plays to win, and never, ever apologizes. Part of his winning strategy also includes freezing out the establishment media, and, boy, they are really rankled about that.
Semafor, a new lefty media offering helmed by former Buzzfeed and NYT journo Ben Smith, the guy who gave the ill-advised green light to publish the unfounded Steele dossier back in 2016, recently published a piece lamenting the fact that DeSantis has summarily dismissed their ilk in favor of right-leaning outlets. Writer Max Tani notes, “Over the last year, DeSantis has given just a handful of interviews. Almost all of them have been with Fox News primetime or morning hosts or major conservative podcasters.”
Boo-freaking-hoo. Why in the world would he take time from his busy schedule to talk with the likes of Semafor or The View or CNN, some of the most dishonest brokers in modern media? Ben Smith is an activist masquerading as a journalist, as this car crash of an interview with Tucker Carlson clearly shows. The Ben Smiths and Max Tanis of the world aren’t interested in honest dialogue; they exist to shill for radical leftist causes and have no intention of giving Republicans fair coverage. And Ron DeSantis is 100 percent correct to ignore them. They’ve earned it.
One of the things that seems to especially irk Semafor’s Tani is the fact that DeSantis will talk to independent media outlets like the Florida Standard and Florida’s Voice, two right-leaning sites covering news and politics in Florida. This is bad, apparently, because the outlets are funded by conservatives. Gasp! Get the smelling salts! Bring in the fain
Awesome, they don’t really care what he has to say, they just want to cut up and mutilate what he doesn’t say, but they need a starting point which he is refusing to give them.
Amen!