A.G. Gancarski
The Florida Governor who benefited like no other politician in state history from compliant and cooperative press is now changing his tune about media on the right.
Ron DeSantis told Iowans Thursday that conservative media is every bit as duplicitous and mendacious as the mainstream press, in the latest sign that the final days of his Iowa campaign are driving rhetorical reconsideration.
“It used to be, ‘Oh, Republicans, you know, don’t like the liberal media, the NBC, CNN, all that stuff or whatever, but that the conservative media were like the good guys, right? They’re fighting for us,'” DeSantis said in Clive.
“Well, let me tell you, it’s all a racket. OK? It’s all a racket,” DeSantis continued. “They’re trying to get clicks, they’re trying to do all this stuff. There’s as much fake news on the right as there is on the corporate press now.”
The outlets don’t “want to lose viewers,” DeSantis said, and “almost every entity out there is plagued with this in one sense or another.”
“Which is fine,” he added. “I mean, that’s just the way it works. It’s ultimately a business. You gotta do that. But if we’re not able to speak as individuals and if we have to rely on those filters, whether they’re traditional liberal media or kind of the more conservative media that’s done, look, I mean, I think it’s just the case people have said, you know, any great movement, you know, great causes start out as a movement, you know, end up a business, and degenerate into a racket.”
DeSantis’ derision of conservative media has picked up in recent days, with the Governor fuming at Fox News offering no “pushback” against Donald Trump’s claims in a town hall Wednesday, and calling the conservative press a “Praetorian Guard” for the former President and current GOP front runner.
The Governor has relied on conservative outlets in Florida in recent years, with the now-shuttered “Florida Standard” and the still-going “Florida’s Voice” offering generally uncritical reports and editorials promoting his positions and his political goals.
12 comments
MH/Duuuval
January 11, 2024 at 10:50 pm
” … I think it’s just the case people have said, you know, any great movement, you know, great causes start out as a movement, you know, end up a business, and degenerate into a racket.”
Present company not excepted.
PeterH
January 11, 2024 at 11:18 pm
From the very start ….. Breitbart has hated Ron DeSantis!
DOtherighthing
January 12, 2024 at 12:50 am
TRUMP/DESANTIS 2024. This is the RIGHT TICKET.
Fully Florida Fully Wrong
January 12, 2024 at 6:42 am
You poor degenerate. Shame on you and your hated of things you don’t understand (Spanish, healthcare, justice just to begin…)
Chuck Anziulewicz
January 12, 2024 at 8:30 am
I’m not terrified of Trump. I HOPE Trump is the GOP nominee. If it came down to Biden vs. Nikki Haley, Haley would win. If it was Biden vs. DeSantis, DeSantis would win. But given a choice between Biden and Trump? Biden wins. Too many of the people who voted to give Trump a chance in 2016 were simply too tired of his bratty, boorish behavior to make the same mistake in 2020, and if anything Trump has simply become more unhinged. Worst of all? If ANYONE is terrified of Trump, it’s all the other GOP political figures. They way they cower before him is downright embarrassing.
Fully Florida
January 12, 2024 at 6:40 am
He really DOES represent you folks; a failure despite all advantages (Ivy league x 2 and OCS); despised across America; known for gaffes and boots.
Ron is You; You are DeSantis.
Chuck Anziulewicz
January 12, 2024 at 8:44 am
DeSantis is flailing.
Tom
January 12, 2024 at 8:48 am
So Ronnie finally figured out that the media is in business to sell advertising and he spent his whole career crapping all over them. Now he’s upset because he’s not getting any ‘unearned’ coverage because, umm, he spent his whole career crapping all over them.
He’s spent all his donor money on private jets to fly him around and what was left he’s had to use to buy coverage. His donor base has dried up and he’s looking at third in Iowa and probably worse in New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Much and all as it’s been amusing to watch, I think he’s about done. Queue the “we’re temporarily suspending the campaign” sometime next week.
FloridaPatriot
January 12, 2024 at 11:51 am
The rantings of somewhere scared he is about to lose.
wakee up
January 12, 2024 at 12:49 pm
Poor Rona. It’s always someone else’s fault! Does he feel shame for all those cameos on Fox Entertainment TV? No, he doesn’t feel anything but despair about his failing to be the GOP nominee, or so it seems. Maybe he should launch a third party campaign- the “anti woke ” party? He’s a big crybaby, short when he’s not wearing his high heels!
Silly Wabbit
January 12, 2024 at 1:10 pm
He kwazy.
Dont Say FLA
January 12, 2024 at 6:22 pm
Rhonda really and truly must be trying to get a host job on MSNBC.
I thought I was joking when I said that.
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