Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis, as normal, hit the nail proper on the pinnacle the opposite day.
Fox Information headlined:
DeSantis requires media to carry Democratic California leaders accountable for wildfires: ‘Haven’t seen that’
DeSantis stated he’d wish to ‘see some steadiness’ in how Democrat and Republican leaders are handled by some media
The story reported as follows, with daring print for emphasis provided:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis known as out a reporter on Thursday for the dearth of blame being positioned on California leaders for the devastating wildfires, declaring that it is in stark distinction to how Republican leaders are sometimes handled within the wake of disasters.
DeSantis, and all different Republican governors, had simply wrapped up a dinner with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday night when the heated trade with a reporter passed off.
The reporter gave the impression to be asking one other governor if it was applicable for Trump to criticize Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom as lethal wildfires rage all through the state.
The query prompted DeSantis to step ahead and ask, ‘Is it applicable for folks in your trade to attempt to create division and to attempt to create narratives any time these items occur?’
‘Now, you are not as excited by doing that as a result of Newsom is a D. If Newsom was a Republican, you guys would go attempt … you’ll have him nailed to the wall for what they’re doing over there,’ he continued.
Bingo.
Have been Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and California Governor Gavin Newsom Republicans, DeSantis is 100% right that the media would have come down on the 2 just like the proverbial ton of bricks.
Examples?
Recall the varsity taking pictures in Uvalde, Texas in 2022? Terrible. There have been 19 college students and a pair of lecturers shot to loss of life by a former scholar. Right here’s a pattern headline from that occasion that appeared in the Texas Tribune:
Households of the Uvalde taking pictures victims denounce Gov. Greg Abbott’s inaction on gun reform
The governor has made a vocal enemy within the households of Robb Elementary taking pictures victims. They’re demanding a particular legislative session to achieve a compromise on the minimal age to buy semi-automatic rifles.
Then there was this headline within the lefty New Republic following Hurricanes Helene and Milton, zeroing in on Home Speaker Mike Johnson:
Mike Johnson Has Infuriating Response to Requires Hurricane Support
Home Democrats urged the speaker to reconvene Congress and cross further funding for FEMA, however Johnson had a greater concept.
Additionally in 2022, following a college taking pictures in Parkland Florida, there was a taking pictures at a grocery retailer in Buffalo, New York. The Newsweek headline:
Parkland Father Blames Ron DeSantis, Different Republicans for Buffalo Taking pictures
And on it goes.
Decide a tragedy – a college taking pictures, a hurricane to call two – and the media is fast to zero in if the governor or different high official is a Republican.
But right here we’re watching the horrific fireplace sweeping the Los Angeles space and lo and behold, Mayor Bass and Governor Newsom, each with duties to guard Los Angeles from the looming potential of the pure catastrophe that’s these fires, and the media falls silent on their efficiency.
In contrast, in a single case that passed off by sheer accident, there was this second in California the place a distraught Mother discovered herself in a parking zone with Governor Newsom. Due to somebody with a mobile phone, there’s video, which the New York Put up received maintain of, headlining:
Livid mother confronts Gov. Gavin Newsom over LA fires as he bizarrely claims he’s ‘actually’ calling Biden
This gem of a narrative studies:
A distraught Los Angeles mom confronted California Gov. Gavin Newsom within the ashen stays of her neighborhood, demanding to know what he was doing concerning the wildfires devouring the town — to which the embattled governor claimed he was calling President Biden for federal assist, however simply couldn’t get reception.
‘Governor! Governor! I stay right here, Governor! That was my daughter’s college!’ stated Pacific Palisades resident Rachel Dervish as she chased after Newsom by way of LA’s carnage Thursday.
‘What are you going to do for her?’ she stated, cornering him alongside his automobile in an interplay filmed by Sky Information.
….Dervish then demanded to know what Newsom — whom President-elect Donald Trump accused of hindering Southern California’s water provide — was doing to assist the group, and why issues ended up the way in which they did.
‘Why was there no water within the hydrants, Governor? Is it going to be completely different subsequent time?’ she requested.
‘It needs to be, it needs to be, after all,’ he replied in a hushed tone
‘What are you going to do?’
‘I’m doing the whole lot I can,’ the governor stated. ‘I’ll do no matter I can.’
‘However you’re not!’ she shot again.
Ouch. Ouch.
However all of those incidents show the DeSantis level precisely. If the individual in control of these episodes have been Democrats, the media would preserve appreciable distance from putting blame on the Democrat in cost. (Except you might be an offended, distraught Mother who unintentionally finds herself head to head with a reluctant Governor Newsom.)
But when the Governor or different official in cost is a Republican — a Texas GOP Governor Abbott, a Home Speaker Johnson or, no irony, Governor DeSantis himself — then the media will swoop in with a decided effort to headline that GOP official’s accountability for no matter tragedy is at hand.
It is rather protected to say that Governor DeSantis stepped ahead the opposite day to level out this hypocrisy as a result of he has seen it shut up and is aware of how the lefty media performs this sport.
Any sense of disgrace from the media? Will they zero in and apply in any severe method an updated model of that outdated Watergate scandal query to Newsom and Bass?
As in, “What did Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass know concerning the looming risks of this fireplace – and when did they realize it?”
Don’t maintain your breath.
