Posted on 01/06/2022 7:46:45 PM PST by datura
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis mocked the corporate media’s “nauseating” coverage of the Jan. 6 Commemoration at the Capitol Thursday, calling it “Christmas” for Democrats, and a “politicized Charlie Foxtrot,” using military slang for a poorly-managed operation, or “clusterf-ck.”
”This is their Christmas,” DeSantis said, meaning Washington and New York-based media outlets. “They are going to take this and milk this for anything they can to be able to smear anyone who ever supported Donald Trump,” he added. DeSantis made the remarks during a news conference about COVID-19 testing in West Palm Beach. The governor took a number of questions from reporters on COVID-related issues. The last question related to the Jan. 6 anniversary of the Capitol Hill riot.
The likely 2024 presidential contender told reporters that “obviously” he would not be watching any of the media’s histrionic coverage.
“I don’t expect anything good to come out of anything that [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi and the gang are doing,” he said. “I don’t expect anything from the corporate press to be enlightening. I think it’s going to be nauseating, quite frankly, and I’m not going to do it.”
DeSantis compared the media’s obsessive nonstop coverage of the Jan. 6 riot to their light coverage of the congressional baseball shooting in 2017, when a left-wing activist opened fire on Republican lawmakers as they were practicing for the next day’s Congressional Baseball Game for Charity.
On June 14, 2017, Bernie Sanders supporter James Hodgkinson came to the park with a GOP kill list, and shot U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, U.S. Capitol police officer Crystal Griner, congressional aide Zack Barth, and lobbyist Matt Mika.
DeSantis, who was one of the 24 Republicans who was in the park that day, said that the Capitol Police protected them and saved lives.
But the media, he noted, turned the attempted slaughter into “a one-day, two-day story” because “that’s not something that the Capitol-based press wanted to talk about.”
The governor said the reason for the media’s disinterest was “because it totally undercuts their preferred narratives. Jan. 6 allows them to create narratives that are negative about people who supported Donald Trump.”
“I just look back and compare when I was in Congress, what event that we faced was the attempted assassination of Republican members of Congress on the baseball game,” DeSantis exclaimed.
“I was actually on the field, this guy, who was a big Bernie Sanders guy, it definitely was a politically motivated attack, came up and pulled his van in…we walked out to go to the car and we came in contact with him. He wanted to know if it was Republicans out there.”
The governor went on to blast Democrats who have compared the Jan 6 riot to the al Qaeda terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, and questioned the widespread use of the term, “insurrection” to describe a protest that got out of control.
“But let’s just be clear here, when they try to act like this is something akin to the September 11 attacks,” he said. “That is an insult to the people who were going into those buildings and it’s an insult to people when you say it’s an insurrection and a year later nobody has been charged with that. People are being charged with disrupting proceedings,” he noted. “I think it’s very important in fact that if this is what you said it was, why are you not charging people?”
DeSantis also questioned why a year later we still don’t know— if this was a planned “insurrection”—who was behind the planning of it. He pointed out that some individuals [like Ray Epps] were actually pulled off the FBI’s Most Wanted list.
“I think that this is something that is being used for political narrative and posturing purposes,” he added.
Ultimately, according to DeSantis, Florida residents have more pressing concerns than Jan. 6, such as inflation, gas prices and rising crime rates.
There is an obsession with this among the DC-New York journalist class, and I think it’s because it allows them to spin a narrative that they want to spin,” he said.
The entire speech video is at the source link.
DeSantis 2024
Compare this to what Ted Cruz said.
Wow , moron Bushie DC lawyer and Goldman Sachs puppet Cruz
sides with DC media and globalist pals.
Quite a contrast .
Right?
I also appreciate that he brings up Ray Epps.
Just when I think I can’t admire DeSantis any more than I already did…
Charlie Foxtrot. I love it.
RDeS shoulda also called out the obfuscating Fey Wray and Meritless Garland.
Warning- rant ahead!
Notice how the insane liberals want to associate 1/6 with 9/11 and 12/7?
Aren’t these the ones who have systematically forgotten 9/11? They hardly want to remember what radical Islam did to us. They are reluctant to even show video of the attack anymore because they HATE America and 9/11 brought American citizens together.
Marxists are DIVIDERS.
Even after all these DOJ/FBI investigations, not ONE person has been charged with insurrection!
ON 1/6, only one person was killed (murdered) — by a reckless cop- with no warning. He was exonerated but admits he couldn’t SEE what he was shooting at.
There were no firearms found on any of the rioters.
There’s a HUGE story yet to told about federal agents IN the crowd, some of whom were urging the crowd to go into the Capitol.
Who is the so-called “scaffold commander”?
There’s a BOATLOAD of surveillance video that isn’t being released. Why?
Nancy Pelosi is responsible for Capitol security- she is the principle CAUSE of the 1/6 Capitol break-in, so she initiates a 1/6 investigation (rejecting Jim Jordan’s participation) so she can prolong the deception and deflect questions of HER role in the matter. Did she coordinate events that led to the events in 1/6?
“Break-in”?? We’ve all seen video of Capitol Police opening the doors and allowing protestors to enter the building. WTF?
Many people have been stuck in the DC gulag (jail)- for a YEAR -never having any arraignment or formal charges filed against them.
There’s more. Pray that it all sees the light of day.
Ironically, the biggest insurrectionists and coup plotters are actually the media. They have taken it upon themselves to ‘direct’ the thinking of American society. No one should have the hubris to act this way, but they in particular are so unqualified to be directing anyone.
Completely agree. The DOJ is merely the KGB for the Rats now.
Good for him calling it as it is!
Trump MUST make DeSantis the VP!!
But Trump will have to change residency. I believe the Constitution requires Pres. & VP to be from different states. There was an issue about that with Bush/Cheney from what i recall.
DeSantis is right, these Washington DC phonies and frauds are nauseating.
Its ludicrous and insane to compare a protest with some rioting to Pearl Harbor & 9/11, where thousands were killed.
Trump 2024
Oops. Replied on another thread about this.
This is the onLy thing these commie Dems can squawk about. Sad they have no other “riotous” event from Repubs to beat on after all these decades.
Dems are absolutely absurd. Their whole approach is non-sequiturs and absurdity.
There is ZERO comparison between 9/11 and this stupid disorderly conduct. I will never be watching endless films of Jan 6 even now, as I do for 9/11.
People died…innocent people. LOTS of them in a short time. In an atrocious ambush. There has never been anything like it in history, period (not just US).
Meanwhile, 1 person died in the so-called “riot”, which was clearly seen and known. The only person who died directly, was part of the “attacking” side.
Oh these people need to shut up.
Trump will just move his residency from Florida to New Jersey or New York. Cheney did the same kind of thing with W in 2000.
Presto, Constitutional compliance and Florida is a lock.
Trump will stay out of blue states for now. He doesn’t need these kooks and crazies (Lawrence Tribe types) harassing him anymore than they already are.
“Ironically, the biggest insurrectionists and coup plotters are actually the media. They have taken it upon themselves to ‘direct’ the thinking of American society. No one should have the hubris to act this way, but they in particular are so unqualified to be directing anyone.”
The media just preaches to the urban choir. If they piss of the urban voter, they’ll bail on them for a farther left media.
The media also has zero curiosity outside of a narrow minded world view. I should also mention that many of them are stupid and lazy.
Ron DeSantis rocks - better than the best. He calls BS, where he sees it, and it rings so true to any thinking person... that is why the Marxists hate him so much.
The person who commented the FBI/CIA etc are just enforcers for the Marxists Democrats now, basically an American KGB they could not be more correct. It is frightening to think we have a ruling class with their own Gestapo... but that’s where we are. Unelected leaders, installed via fraud, enforced by the Deep State. This is not the America I was taught about in school... not even close. Just think about the moronic facade going on in DC today, it quite sick and unbelievably stupid - like Jussie Smollet X 10,000.
And Mary Garland was the pivot man.
All President Trump has to do is change his residency to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Problem solved.
Then be subject to NJ taxes. Problem created.
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