As has been reaffirmed over the past couple of years, the mainstream media will let you know as only they can which Republican public figure they fear the most. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis easily beats out the competition time and time again for the MSM’s prestigious “Worse than Trump” award.
And, of course, the closer we get to the start of the GOP presidential primaries – with the first debate being tonight, the more predictable their attacks against DeSantis and some of the other candidates will get. We saw this most recently with how they added fuel to the fire of the Trump campaign/influencer outrage over DeSantis’ “listless vessels” comment by taking it out of context.
Not to be outdone, the New York Times is – as other media outlets, including the NYT, have done in the past – reviving the “Kavanaughing” of DeSantis by digging into his days as a Yale student and baseball player, interviewing mostly former students and alleged fellow frat/secret society members who described DeSantis as a supposedly “arrogant” and “bullying” figure, and one who – gasp – allegedly rolled his eyes when one Hispanic female student recalled her time growing up in Texas (archived link here):
His arrogance could startle. At a “captain’s practice” that fall, the [baseball] team’s revered coach, John Stuper, delivered a brief pep talk to the freshmen. After he left, Mr. DeSantis told the team that their coach, a former major league pitcher, didn’t know what he was doing.[…]During the [Delta Kappa Epsilon] fraternity’s “hell week,” pledges wore costumes smeared with rotten food and condiments. They might be ordered to simulate sex with one another or do outdoor calisthenics in the winter air. According to four former pledges and brothers, Mr. DeSantis required one pledge, for whom he served as “father,” to wear a pair of baseball pants with the back and thighs cut out, exposing his buttocks and genitals.Another D.K.E. brother, Scott Wagner, a friend of Mr. DeSantis who served on the governor’s Florida transition team, said none of the pledges’ costumes involved nudity. Reached by The Times, the former pledge, who asked not to be identified, confirmed that he was made to wear the revealing costume but declined to discuss the experience further. Today, some of the former brothers and pledges regard Mr. DeSantis’s behavior as foreshadowing a comfort with power — and with using it to bully others.[…]At [secret society] meetings, the members took turns delivering their “bios,” or life stories, in the living room, in speeches that could last hours. Mr. DeSantis often showed up in his baseball uniform; his own bio leaned heavily on baseball, his Florida roots and his journey to Yale. But when it came time for others to tell their stories, Mr. DeSantis tuned out, according to former St. Elmo members. He rolled his eyes as one member, Cristina Sosa Noriega, talked about growing up as a Hispanic public schoolgirl in San Antonio, Ms. Sosa Noriega and two other members recalled. “He seemed bored and disinterested,” Ms. Sosa Noriega said. “It was like I wasn’t worth listening to. I had the feeling that he assumed that I didn’t deserve to be there.”
Not surprisingly, others in the MSM pounced and seized on the Times report as further proof that DeSantis is an insensitive bigot or something. It didn’t take long, however, before the mocking began – and their ridiculousness was called out:
Then I guess that means I’m disqualified from running, too. Oh well…
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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