Welp, our pals in the media and the Democratic Party are once again trying really super hard to paint DeSantis as some sort of homophobe over a bill that prevents teachers or school admin (or any adult) from talking about sexual identity with 4-8-year-olds.
Oh, yeah, that’s the bill.
It has nothing to do with ‘Don’t Say Gay,’ and it absolutely is targeted to protect children in public schools but you know, it’s far edgier to pretend he is trying to cancel gay people.
Or something.
And the media is going along with it, reporting the bill as if it is actually called the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill.
Yeah, they’re d i c k s.
Re FL's proposed new law ("Don't say gay"): It's weird when news organizations take a partisan nickname for a bill and use it as if it is the official name of the bill. It's even less defensible when that nickname intentionally misleads people about the contents of the bill.
— AG🌻 (@AGHamilton29) March 8, 2022
This is what’s called propaganda.
Yup.
We know, we shouldn’t be surprised by news outlets who actually took money from the feds to push vaccines ‘in a media campaign’ pushing a partisan nickname in their coverage of a bill to protect children but c’mon.
Here is the actual text of the controversial portion. One can certainly debate whether this is a good law, too broad etc.
But it's rather clear that most news consumers are being misinformed about what the bill does. pic.twitter.com/EpXeOZR9JW
— AG🌻 (@AGHamilton29) March 8, 2022
Gosh, gay isn’t even in the bill.
Who knew?
Oh, that’s right, EVERYONE NOT ON ON THE LEFT OR IN THE BRAIN-DEAD MEDIA.
Even worse when media does it. https://t.co/KHdzhd7mgf
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) March 8, 2022
Look at those headlines.
Obnoxious aren’t they?
It’s not weird it’s propaganda and news organizations are active participants
— DaveinTexas (@DaveinTexas) March 8, 2022
News orgs have a disproportionate amount of gay people in them. It's often reflected in its coverage of things like this.
— Jon Nicosia (@NewsPolitics) March 8, 2022
And they’re terrified of DeSantis, who is just as good on policy as Trump was, without any of the ‘mean tweets.’
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