Florida

CNN Anchor Cues NAACP Smear: DeSantis Has 'Waged War on Black America'
In the aftermath of a racially motivated murder spree in Jacksonville, Florida, CNN host Fredricka Whitfield on Sunday afternoon allowed two of her guests to try to push blame onto Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) while discussing the killings. The NAACP guest said DeSantis "waged war on black America."

CNN: Florida May Make It 'Illegal to Read About an Enslaved Person'
CNN Tonight host Laura Coates previewed the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington on Friday by welcoming The Beat Goes On director Mario Van Peebles and executive producer who promptly used the occasion to push not only left-wing agendas, such as abortion, but to spread fake news about how Florida Republicans make it “illegal to read about an enslaved person.”

Fact-Checkers Falsely State Florida Didn't Ban CRT, Again
The assortment of online fact-checkers really did not appreciate Republican presidential candidates criticizing Democrats’ extreme abortion policies during their Wednesday debate, but abortion wasn’t the only topic they incorrectly condemned the candidates on. The same cabal of self-appointed guardians of the truth also declared Critical Race Theory to be a made up issue that Republicans,…

Historic USA Today Anti-FL Hit: ‘Ridicule, Discrimination,' Violence?
A truly amazing 5,500-word anti-Florida, anti-Ron DeSantis hit job appeared on USA Today on Monday: “DeSantis war on "wokeism" leaves many missing a Florida they once knew.” The story by Tom McLaughlin, a reporter for the Pensacola News Journal, included five other Florida-based contributors and appeared originally in the PNJ: “Proud purple to angry red: These…

MSNBC Labels Anti-Semitic Democrat a Republican to Smear DeSantis
Protesting emeritus Prof. Marvin Dunn joined Thursday’s Jose Diaz-Balart Reports on MSNBC to discuss his opposition to Florida’s new history standards on slavery. During his rantings, Dunn argued that one of the experts who wrote the standards is an anti-Semite who once thanked God for slavery. There was just one problem: that woman opposes the standards and is an elected Democrat.…

PolitiFact Rates DeSantis 'Mostly False' For True Statement About CRT
Florida Governor and 2024 GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis recently declared that “we’ve eliminated Critical Race Theory in our K through 12 schools.” It was a rather simple statement, but was true, but yet, PolitiFact's Samantha Putterman still rated it “mostly false” on Monday.

Column: Republican Racism 'Weaponized' Kamala Harris?
One of the most annoying ploys of liberal journalists is to advise Republicans that the truly wise path in politics is to surrender to liberals on everything, and the dumbest path is to oppose them emphatically.

Media Attack Florida Education Rules, Whitewash Dems' Race History
Ya can’t make it up.

NY Times Seeks to Undermine the DeSantis Record Defying Media on COVID
Sunday’s lead New York Times story by Sharon LaFraniere, Patricia Mazzei, and Albert Sun, “The Steep Cost of Ron DeSantis’s Vaccine Turnabout,” was a retrospective hit piece for the 2024 presidential race, reaching back before current culture war controversies to focus on Florida’s Republican governor-presidential candidate and the alleged deadly medical malpractice he performed by…

CNN Accuses DeSantis Of Trying 'To Soften The Brutality' Of Slavery
Late Wednesday night saw people close to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defend the state’s new history guidelines on slavery by pointing out that the Advanced Placement course that the media demanded the state adopt has very similar standards. However, Thursday’s viewers of CNN News Central were not informed of these latest developments as host Jim Sciutto conducted a softball interview…

PolitiFact Defends Harris On Florida's 'Offensive' History Standards
PolitiFact waded into the controversy surrounding Florida’s new history standards by rating Vice President Kamala Harris “mostly true” for her statement that the state is teaching “enslaved people benefited from slavery.” To reach such a conclusion the trio of Sofia Bliss-Carrascosa, Louis Jacobson, and Amy Sherman had to tie themselves into a giant pretzel by simply downplaying evidence…

Florida Man Shoots & Kills Pregnant ‘Boyfriend’
Nope, you're not seeing things or waking up from a fever dream. That’s not a typo in that headline.

Juan Williams SLIMES Fla. Black History Standards with 9/11, Holocaust
The pundit panel on Fox News Sunday took on the subject of Florida's new standards for teaching black history in public schools. Juan Williams took the Democratic hot takes to a new level, that Florida was teaching something like "Jews picked up some skills in concentration camps" and "engineers learned a lot" from 9/11. He folded that subject, redistricting in Alabama, and leftist…

PBS Cheers Harris Attacking Florida's New History Standards
Washington Post contributor Gary Abernathy and associate editor Jonathan Capehart joined PBS NewsHour’s Geoff Bennett to recap the week that was by not only excluding any mention of the House hearing on IRS whistleblowers alleging improper interference in the Hunter Biden investigation, but finding consensus that Vice President Harris is correct to attack Florida Gov. Ron…