DeSantis Torches Legacy Media Over ‘Insurrection’ Hypocrisy, False Claims About Book Bans

Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis During Thursday’s press conference about his new legislative push, which takes action against illegal migration amid the ongoing crisis at the southern borders under President Joe Biden, he attacked the legacy media.

DeSantis targeted media outlets that made complaints about the January 6th, 2021 events but didn’t pay attention to when left-wing protests interfered with legislative actions at government facilities.

DeSantis’ comments were in response to a Florida Capitol report that reportedly changed who is allowed on the grounds to hold demonstrations.

DeSantis stated that the rule change was not his and that he wasn’t involved in it.

“I would imagine that it’s just, you go there, and you speak your mind, great,” DeSantis said, “but you’ll have some groups that will try to take over capitals like we’ve seen in other state capitals.”

“And, you know, it’s interesting, if they’re doing that from the Left, then the media says, ‘that’s democracy in action,'” He continued. “They don’t say it’s an ‘insurrection’ if you take over a capital because of that, but I think that’s what it’s getting to.”

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WATCH: Gov. Ron DeSantis mocks media “insurrection” Reporting

“You’ll have some groups that will try to take over capitols […] If they’re doing that from the left, then the media says that’s ‘Democracy in Action.’ They don’t say it’s an insurrection…” pic.twitter.com/v484yvlsHZ

— Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) February 23, 2023

DeSantis also took aim at false claims that are being peddled by the media about Florida’s education policies, specifically “media lies” about his decision to ban Critical Race Theory and gender theory in Florida A.P. African America Studies.

“You have the reporter saying that ‘Governor DeSantis does not want students to learn about slavery and its aftermath,'” DeSantis said. “Well if you actually looked at what our standards are, not only is it not prohibited to teach that, it’s required to teach that.”

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“We are required to teach all aspects of black history, not queer theory, but actual aspects of black history. … They are lying to you,” DeSantis added.

The governor said that the media is lying to people to “try to create a narrative” because they have an agenda that they are trying to push for political reasons.

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DeSantis calls out book banning “hoax”

“‘The state doesn’t want any books in the library!’ […] They try to create a narrative […] You had on MSNBC [who said I don’t] want students to learn about slavery and its aftermath […] It’s required under Florida statute!” pic.twitter.com/4KQg6gROCf

— Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) February 23, 2023

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