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.
Good thing Team DeSantis has gotten quite good at handling these people:
The response. We will see what ends up in the article. pic.twitter.com/VmG4nMozJA
— Bryan Griffin (@BryanDGriffin) March 27, 2023
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