Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL)
Florida Representative Matt Gaetz has put the Miami Herald on blast after one of their reporters tweeted last month that "packed beaches should work nicely to thin the ranks of Trump/DeSantis/Gimenez supporters in Florida who value money over health."
Rep. Gaetz said that he was contacted by David Smiley, a Miami Herald reporter, who was looking for comment on Gov. Rick DeSantis's plan to reopen beaches, when he reminded them what their columnist Fabiola Santiago had said about Republicans.
Santiago has deleted the tweets, but remains employed by the Miami Herald.
"Miami Herald lies about Gov. Ron DeSantis, allows columnist Fabiola Santiago to wish DeSantis-supporting readers *dead* w/o repudiation, and now wants to talk 'politics' with me as their smears have been proven false by the data," Rep. Gaetz tweeted with a screenshot of the conversation.
In the text, Rep. Gaetz told the reporter that it's "hard to take your request seriously. Your publication should be embarrassed by its coverage of Gov DeSantis & what your content creators have said about wanting his supporters to die w no repudiation by the Herald."
At the time of the tweet, Santiago was called out by Donald Trump Jr., who tweeted that the Miami Herald is biased and "disgusting."
"This tweet from a Miami Herald columnist tells you all you need to know about her, and based on their hiring choices, likely everything you need to know about the Miami Herald as well. Their flagrant bias continues to go on unchecked. Disgusting," Trump Jr. tweeted.
Santiago later apologized for the tweets, saying her words "didn't accurately convey my sentiment and I want to apologize for the phrase I used that offended many people."
Of course it's been no holds barred around here since 3/17/20; a simple read of the comments to any of the (very, very few) stories about protests will reveal a veritable virtual lynch mob of chortling self-defined (but PTB programmed) 'liberals', (sic), upset at people not being ecstatic with being locked down and snidely wishing death and destruction one their fellow 'Kants. "You fools! You'll all die! Serves you right!" etc. etc.
Hands down, the worst official BULLSHIT (aside from the comments, which have been over 70% PRO-lockdown,* and beyond the pale since day one), was an article at Vox entitled: [Link]
Yeah, right! the whites want to leave their privileged existence so they can get out there and sweat (applies to all, white collar jobs included, by just stepping outside; Florida’s too damn hot) and play 'Da Man' and oppress 'Willi and Da' Po' Boys' down in the hood. (Sarcasm.) Jesus H. F'g Christ!
Last, given the short attention span of all involved, an article three weeks old is hardly still news. He should've bitched earlier.
In sum, Tweets are and for twits, the vast majority of whom are simply AmeriKants.
ARGH! WAFF!
R.C.
*Indeed, Florida has had, since late March, a petition pending for a COMPLETE lockdown with over 400K (certainly over 500K by now). And that’s out of 12M registered voters! See, [Link] and, [Link] .
**Even here at SOTT, the same sad silly level of feelings-full, fact-free, knee jerk judgmentalism is seen in many of the comments on the 'All MSM, All The Time!' Georgia shooting (Trayvon/Ferguson MO redux), and the unalterable 'judgments' based not upon facts, but on feelings
Again, Tweets are for twits.
RC