You all remember what happened when the Democrats started calling Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill the “don’t say gay” law. Most of the media without question started using the Democrat narrative in their headlines. Last month I wrote about the Associated Press doing just that:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will soon take control of Walt Disney World's self-governing district after Senate Republicans approved a bill Friday punishing the company over its opposition to the law critics call "Don't Say Gay." https://t.co/5xn9q4OdTT
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 11, 2023
In that story I pointed out that the media NEVER takes the “what critics call” approach when it’s about a Democrat initiative. In other words, the AP is never going to report the Inflation Reduction Act as “the Democrat law that critics call ‘inflation-worsening wasteful spending.'”
This brings me to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis not allowing sexually explicit books on school library shelves. The Democrats are calling it “book banning” and the media — NPR in this example — is happy to play along:
A record number of book bans are expected this year.
Here’s how some activists are finding creative ways to make banned books available to young readers anyway. https://t.co/IQyIWblA2K
— NPR (@NPR) March 24, 2023
NPR is indistinguishable from the DNC.
Content available to children should always be highly regulated and controlled.
That's not "banning books."
— often uncommon 👊 (@oftenuncommon) March 24, 2023
A society that fails to protect its children, fails.
— Lynn Owen Ault II (@LynnOAult) March 24, 2023
Can NPR please explain how a book that is readily available at a bookstore or Amazon has been “banned”?
Pulling a book from a school shelf isn't banning it. Anybody who tells you otherwise is lying. https://t.co/0mcFPc9ByP
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) March 24, 2023
NPR is lying, and this is not the first time.
This was my favorite part of NPR’s leftist activism thinly and poorly disguised at “journalism”:
Author Elana K. Arnold knows that all too well. Several of her books, including Damsel, Red Hood, Infandous and What Girls are Made Of, have been banned or challenged for their sexually explicit scenes that critics have assailed as pornography. Arnold calls that a gross misrepresentation. She says the books, which include portrayals of physical abuse, sexual assault and sexual acts, “protect kids by arming them with knowledge.” But the bottom line, she says, is that fewer kids are reading and buying her books.
It’s a “gross misrepresentation” to say the book contains sexually explicit material, said the author who then went on to explain the sexually explicit material in the book.
Somebody should put a book written by Trump on some school shelves in NYC or Chicago just to test the resolve of these “all books should be allowed in our school libraries” lefties.
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Related:
Ron DeSantis plays the Left and media like fiddles at event ‘exposing the book ban hoax’
Don Lemon says Florida feels like the 1950s all over again with all the book banning
Fake News: CBS can’t believe that Flordia might ban a book for simply having a black character
