Christina Pushaw shreds WaPo for 'blatant factual errors' in article about Gov. DeSantis

It’s been a heck of a last few days for “reporters” at the Washington Post. First Dave Weigel had to apologize after retweeting a joke that others at the WaPo did not find humorous in the least. Around the same time, content creators said that reporter Taylor Lorenz lied about them in her piece about the Amber Heard/Johnny Depp trial. Before that, the Post had to add an editor’s note to the defamatory Amber Heard op-ed. Add it all up and it was a banner week for WaPo “journalism.” But it didn’t stop there.

Christina Pushaw, press secretary for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, spotted even more inaccuracies in the Post:

In addition to the obviously biased framing here, @washingtonpost AGAIN made a factual error that is easily checked. The FY 22-23 budget recently signed by @GovRonDeSantis is NOT $101.5 billion. It's easy to find the actual number. 30 seconds on Google. What are reporters for? pic.twitter.com/YeZJ4QQOVT

— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) June 6, 2022

The Post got something wrong? No way! Oh, and not just one thing:

Also, @washingtonpost – Gov. DeSantis was asked on Friday why he vetoed the Rays facility funding, and he responded that taxpayers shouldn't be funding professional sports stadiums. This is his long-held position; any real fiscal conservative would say the same thing. pic.twitter.com/Hiv9FF53Ey

— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) June 6, 2022

Finally, it's odd editorializing to frame enforcement of the state law as a "threat." Florida has a law against vaccine passports. The Department of Health enforces this law, and DOH sent a letter to SOI informing them that their policy is unlawful & could therefore incur a fine. pic.twitter.com/QU1sDDWHJt

— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) June 6, 2022

Another lie in the same @washingtonpost article. He did comment, well before you published this. Try watching the governor's press conferences before writing inaccurate smear pieces about him. pic.twitter.com/ISHWAiUNIV

— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) June 6, 2022

This sentence is also patently false. There is nothing to suggest that transgender people could be "banned from Medicaid coverage". Anyone who is eligible for Medicaid, regardless of gender, can use it. But Medicaid should not be used to cover dangerous, unproven interventions pic.twitter.com/0vaepzgqWr

— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) June 6, 2022

Hey, give ’em a break at the WaPo… they’ve had other things to worry about:

I hope @mateagold and @SallyBuzbee can take some time out of their busy schedules negotiating middle-school conflicts between their staffers on Slack and respond to the issues with this article, including the blatant factual errors.

— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) June 6, 2022

Democracy Dies in Darkness, but the petty infighting continues to live in daylight.

What an embarrassing piece of campaign finance reporting that could have been avoided with a single phone call or email. No one will care because it's so inside baseball and the websites no-longer-conservative viewpoint demanded it be written, I guess, but LOL.

— Nathan Wurtzel (@NathanWurtzel) June 6, 2022

Taylor Lorenz is the rule, not the exception, at the Washington Post.

Last year, the paper ran a hit piece against me and had to retract or add six full paragraphs, admit to fabricating a timeline, and reverse a key accusation, which I proved was false.https://t.co/DnziR085Q5

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) June 6, 2022

So much “journalism”!