Bryan Griffin shares Forbes journo's inquiry on DeSantis catering to racists and graciously responds

Sarah D | 2:32 PM on March 27, 2023

Journalists really don’t seem to be getting the message when it comes to dealing with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ press team. Seriously. It seems like no matter how many times reporters get shot down and publicly humiliated by Team DeSantis members like press secretary Bryan Griffin, they just keep coming back for more and more, over and over again.

Today’s faceplant comes courtesy of a Forbes Careers Senior Contributor who shall unfortunately remain nameless (we wish we could give him a personalized shout-out!):

.@Forbes reporter: "Hi, I'm going to call you a racist. I need your comment by 2:00PM!"

Cheap, partisan activism. Not journalism. pic.twitter.com/wLQl5g0LrE

— Bryan Griffin (@BryanDGriffin) March 27, 2023

Wow. That is … that’s something.

“Weaponinging”

— Pat Lehmann ✝️ 🇺🇸 (@lehmann_dev) March 27, 2023

Weaponinging

Forbes can’t even write an email, awesome

— Andrew Kloster (@ARKloster) March 27, 2023

Too many journalists are weaponinging their ineptitude these days. And failing miserably.

Same line of leading questioning as "when did you stop beating your wife?"

— ceneblock (@ceneblock) March 27, 2023

It's the "best regards" at the end that really makes this

— Princess of Power (@AKASheRah) March 27, 2023

Incredible https://t.co/0Z2Oj74ee7

— John 'pro-norms' Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) March 27, 2023

Maybe “incredible” is the wrong word, only because we’ve now seen several examples of inquiries like this to DeSantis’ press people. It’s become normal, in a way.