As Legal Insurrection has extensively documented, the media/leftist attacks on Florida’s First Lady, Casey DeSantis, have escalated since Gov. Ron DeSantis declared his 2024 presidential candidacy in May.
There was the Washington Post‘s Lady Macbeth-ish portrayal of Mrs. DeSantis last month. Prior to that was a so-called Florida historian who claimed a “where woke goes to die” leather jacket Casey DeSantis wore to an Iowa campaign event was racist because it had an image of an alligator on it. The Daily Beast infamously referred to DeSantis as “Walmart Melania.” Then there was the Politico hit piece on Casey DeSantis that used Trump confidant Roger Stone as a source.
The latest media attack on Casey DeSantis revolves around . . . her eyebrows and the burning question of whether or not Mrs. DeSantis has gone over the top with them:
Slate staff writer Heather Schwedel was hot on the story:
Judging by how she’s dressed at several high-profile events in her husband’s political career, first lady of Florida Casey DeSantis’ desperation to win Jackie Kennedy comparisons is almost palpable. It’s only kind of worked—she did earn the nickname “Tacky Onassis” in some circles and has recently been dubbed “Walmart Melania”—but the intent is plain: She wants to be thought of as classy, prim, and put-together. So she would probably be absolutely appalled to find out that there’s currently a sizable amount of people online who are horrified by her eyebrows.[…]Just how thick are this lady’s brows? Have they been growing? Are Casey DeSantis’ eyebrows angling to seize new territory? Do they have … political ambitions? Is it possible they are bodily manifestations of her increasing influence over her husband’s presidential campaign? Should we treat them as prophets?[…]But she does favor a strong brow, and DeSantis might be an anomaly in this way—I can’t think of many other conservative women known for their dark eyebrows. There’s also probably a strong correlation between the lack of strong-eyebrowed women in the Republican party and the preponderance of blond women in conservative politics.
The supposedly original, unaltered photo appears to have first been posted by Gov. DeSantis hater Ron Filipkowski during a DeSantis campaign stop in Nevada in June:
Jon Cooper, who says in his Twitter bio that he is a former national finance chairman for the Draft Biden campaign, couldn’t resist weighing in:
Photos showing Mrs. DeSantis’ eyebrows as exaggerated are also circulating on Twitter:
Newsweek was able to confirm that some of the images that have been posted to social media claiming to show DeSantis’ eyebrows have indeed been altered:
However, questions have arisen as to whether the viral image is even real.Newsweek can confirm that many of the images that have begun circulating of DeSantis have been edited to increase the size of her eyebrows.
Understandably, Slate got pilloried for turning a meme circulating among the Very Online Left into a story:
Nope, you sure couldn’t.
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