By now you’ve certainly heard of the hit piece on Libs of Tik Tok by Taylor Lorenz in the Washington Post today. As Twitchy reported, Lorenz messaged an account Monday with a similar name, telling them that they were being implicated in the story as “starting a hate campaign against LGBTQ people” and giving them the chance to respond. “I need to turn in my story today,” Lorenz added, because obviously content like this can’t wait.
As Twitchy reported yesterday, Christina Pushaw, press secretary for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, published an email she’d received from an NBC News reporter who was doing a story on LGBTQ teens facing increased online harassment amid the passing of Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law. Specifically, he wanted to know if Pushaw had any comment “on the spike of conservative and far-right figures using the term ‘groomer’ to describe LGBTQ people and their allies.” Of course, the reporter’s timeline was ASAP. Pushaw responded, in part: “Do you have a more politically correct term for adults who advocate for instructing young people about sexuality and gender theory behind their parents’ backs?”
Boom. Wonder if that quote made the story.
Now Pushaw is saying that Lorenz had approached her, at 8 p.m., for comment on Libs of Tik Tok, seeing as she had interacted with the Twitter account.
Why Taylor Lorenz gave me a “deadline” of an hour to respond, at 8pm last night: She WANTED to write in Washington Post that “@GovRonDeSantis Press Secretary declined to comment on her relationship with @libsoftiktok.” As if it’s shameful to follow / like / RT the account. NOPE. pic.twitter.com/pVL2ahRdSK
— Christina Pushaw 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) April 19, 2022
Pushaw’s response gets cut off, so here it is:
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“Relationship with the account”? What do you mean by that? I follow, like and retweet libsoftiktok. My interactions with that account are public. She does a great job in exposing degeneracy by showcasing liberals in their own words. It’s a shame that any journalist would want to ruin her life!
We’re not certain, but we bet that last line didn’t make the story, either.
Hold on — you DIDN'T decline to comment. Claiming you declined to comment is factually incorrect — and they should issue a correction.
— Matthew Sablan (@lucentile) April 19, 2022
She didn’t ultimately write that I declined to comment. She wanted to.
— Christina Pushaw 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) April 19, 2022
pathetic
— Jessica O’Donnell (@heckyessica) April 19, 2022
I give it 5 years tops before she’s writing an article titled: “Why Grooming Children Is Actually a Good Thing”
— Joe Reed (@deeReoJeoJ) April 19, 2022
5 weeks maybe..
— J Sauce (@ugaj311) April 19, 2022
She did that so she could say that you “could not be reached for comment”
— LeXplorer (@RedditLs) April 19, 2022
She's amazing in the worst possible way
— Wait….What??? (@WaitWhatHowHu) April 19, 2022
Bad faith actors, every single one of these reporters.
— Once Bitten, Twice Vampire (@Corbin_Dallas_5) April 19, 2022
Slob move on @TaylorLorenz’s part
— Not buying into the nonsense. (@pharmdeezy) April 19, 2022
Is she just straight out admitting that she was going to lie in her article? What a terrible "journalist"
— Larissa Lopez (@LarissaMVLopez) April 19, 2022
Shaming hypocritical liberals using their own words is a noteworthy topic. It's hilarious that her angle is the shamer and not the shameful.
— Chris Wilson (@SeeWilsonGo) April 19, 2022
They’re so scared of DeSantis running in 2024 that they’re now going after his press secretary.
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Libs of Tik Tok shares message Taylor Lorenz sent to wrong account threatening to expose them 'as starting a hate campaign against LGBTQ people' https://t.co/ecscbG4kPZ
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 19, 2022