Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ press secretary Bryan Griffin is doing a great job filling in the large shoes left by Christina Pushaw, who left the position to join DeSantis’ gubernatorial campaign. Pushaw never hesitated to post emails from reporters seeking comment, and Griffin is no different. In this case, a reporter from the New York Times is working on a story — shockingly — about Republican rhetoric “about a civil war or a revolution or a national divorce.” (Yeah, remember the time famously outspoken Republican Kathy Griffin tweeted, “If you don’t want a Civil War, vote for Democrats in November.” Or Republican journalist Major Garrett saying we’re “85 percent there” on the way to civil war?) The calls are coming from inside the house, New York Times.
In any case, DeSantis said the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago was something a banana republic would do, and the reporter just wants to know, was DeSantis calling for violence?
Can you imagine a more bad faith line of questioning? This is the @nytimes. pic.twitter.com/mOHl4wlgYQ
— Bryan Griffin (@BryanDGriffin) September 24, 2022
Seems par for the course for them. They rarely, if ever, ask a question I'm good faith. And certainly, they never ask about a single positive thing any Republican does.
— MJ 🇺🇸 (@mjrod) September 24, 2022
Can they grab that can of peas for me while they're up there reaching?
— Island Lives Matter (@mattresko) September 24, 2022
I like how the first two conclusions drawn by the reporter on what Governor DeSantis may have “meant” is 1) violence and 2) civil disobedience.
I’m going to apply a Trump quote on this one: “They’re not sending their best.”
— PhoneyOutrage (@PhoneyOutrage) September 24, 2022
Who’s the “reporter”?
— David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense (@davereaboi) September 24, 2022
If the article is written I will definitely link it.
— Bryan Griffin (@BryanDGriffin) September 24, 2022
Journalism has devolved into clickbait. Every decent journalist fled to substack.
— Negative Nelly 🏴☠️💀🔥 (@TryingToSmile3) September 24, 2022
Robert Reich said the same thing.
I guess it's only bad if it's discussed in "Republican circles".
— 𝙽𝚘𝚝𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚎𝚎𝚜𝚠𝚊𝚡 🇺🇸 (@NotcherBeeswax) September 24, 2022
“Banana republic,” did he say? pic.twitter.com/E1DkLRgXiy
— Amygator 🐊 *not an actual alligator (@AmyA1A) September 24, 2022
Opinion: “OK, we are a banana republic,” by Paul Krugman. Was Krugman calling for violence with that New York Times column?
If she wants to hear about the terminology of civil war she should go on MSNBC where they declare it all the time, but they won't because they're liars and hypocrites
— ANJI USA PASSION🇺🇲🙏😘 (@usa_anji) September 24, 2022
More to the point this reporter has insulted your intelligence. He's an idiot himself. Did he really expect you to answer that question?
— Matt Sweetwood (@MSweetwood) September 24, 2022
I doubt he expected an answer but it gives him room to write “we reached out to the DeSantis campaign for comment but they they refused”
— Isidro Prince (@IsidroPrince4) September 24, 2022
Exactly. “DeSantis’ press secretary chose not to comment on whether the governor’s words were a call to violence.”
I see we have a graduate of the Taylor Lorenz school of journalism here.
— Hannibal Lecture (@AltKurtis) September 24, 2022
Keep posting these emails, because it just proves what we already knew: The reporter has an angle in mind and then writes the story to fit, with the “journalism” part reaching out to conservatives to give them maybe a sentence in the piece to give “balance” to the piece.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis’ press secretary gives Yahoo News a quote for their ‘Don’t Say Gay’ story https://t.co/yuSNicy1vE
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 30, 2022
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