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This week’s Liberal Media Scream features one of the first indications that left-leaning news outlets are starting to believe Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is emerging as the top choice to replace former President Donald Trump on top of the GOP 2024 ticket.
Exhibit A is MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, who chastised DeSantis for vetoing $35 million for a new Tampa Bay Rays baseball practice facility after the team tweeted in favor of gun control.
On Monday’s Morning Joe, Scarborough went on a rant denouncing DeSantis for “punishing a public enterprise because of their political views.” He added of the likely 2024 GOP primary candidate: “It’s just craziness. This is not conservative. This is authoritarian. It’s plain and simple, and conservatives know that.”
<mediadc-iframe data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1654546199020,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"00000162-07b3-de22-a173-2ffbab450000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1654546199020,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"00000162-07b3-de22-a173-2ffbab450000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"iFrameEmbedCode":"","_id":"00000181-3aa3-dfdd-a99b-beb74d490000","_type":"00000161-b425-d761-a563-f7e77e270000"}”>iFrame ObjectScarborough, a onetime Florida House member, on Monday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC, setting up guest Dave Aronberg, the state attorney for Palm Beach County, Florida:
“If it were just about the sports stadiums, he could have vetoed it and said, ‘I don’t support giving money to sports stadiums or sports outfits,’ when, of course, Marc [NBC reporter Marc Caputo] just pointed out, he does for ones he prefers. But again, there is an authoritarian streak here. If you tweet something that a governor doesn’t like, he will veto your spending, and he will tell you that’s why he vetoed the spending. He could have just vetoed it and said, ‘I don’t like sports stadiums,’ and leave it there. But no, he wanted people to know.
“He’s punishing a public enterprise because of their political views with taxpayer money. Same thing again, I talked about it before with Disney. Talked about with cruise lines that wanted, at the height of COVID, to keep their people safe, to have them wear masks, which any doctor, sane doctor, would have said, ‘This makes sense.’ Told them they couldn’t do that. Told small businesses they couldn’t have mask mandates if that’s how they wanted to run their small business. Told school boards what they could or couldn’t do despite the fact there’s 67 counties in the huge state of Florida.
“I mean, it’s just craziness. This is not conservative. This is authoritarian. It’s plain and simple, and conservatives know that.”
Brent Baker, vice president of research and publications for the Media Research Center, explains our weekly pick: “Conservatives admire DeSantis because he takes it to those trying to undermine conservative values. Liberals like Scarborough don’t like him because he’s so effective at doing that, so they apply the media’s universal derogatory label to him, ‘authoritarian.’ Supporters of DeSantis would say that if he were a liberal Democrat doing the same thing, journalists would be praising him.”
Rating: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
