Posted on 11/10/2021 7:55:54 AM PST by rktman
A TV news reporter for a CBS affiliate got schooled by Ron DeSantis on Monday when he pressed the Florida governor about a recent joke in which the Republican referred to the Biden administration as "the Brandon administration."
"Do you feel that that is the proper level of exchange between a governor and a president?" Jay O'Brien of WPEC-TV in West Palm Beach, Florida, asked DeSantis.
"Well, let me ask you how he's treated us. Well, look, I think it's a joke but honestly, one of the reasons why that has taken on is because a lot of your folks in the national media, they get very sensitive to it," DeSantis said. "Because what happened was people were chanting something else very colorful."
O'Brien interjected: "It's a swear about the president."
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amazing when reporters are universally defending a president against “disrespect” from political opposition
even in the 1950s there was not even remotely this level of media collaboration with the president....probably not even in wwii if we were honest
All he had to say was “where were you during the Trump presidency?”.
Heaven have mercy! I believe O'Brien is getting the the vapors!
Thats a destroy? I’ve beltched better comebacks.
Was it you that I gave permission to use my li ne as your TAGLINE??
He basically did at the end of the clip.
If you can’t make a joke about a president, then you really don’t have a president. You have a king.
The French even had a term for that: Lese-majeste, an offense against the dignity of the king.
We obviously shouldn’t be moving in that direction.
Media Morons spent four years lampooning, lambasting, and flame-throwing a sitting President, and now they want their ‘unity’ back
The commies hadn’t yet completely taken over the news media in the 1950s.
I challenge anyone to tell me where the swear is. The meme replaces Biden with Branden and expresses the desire that Biden “Go,” any other words, no longer be President. Like “Let’s Go Grandpa, let’s move it along so you get to dinner on time before you need a diaper change.”
All the while clutching his/her pearls.
Remember when that redhead comedian woman had a bloody decapitated head of Trump?
Not a peep from the Bolshevik media (enemy of the people).
Let's go, Brandon!
Jounrnalists have different...........well, I was going to say standards, but remembered they don’t have ANY.
Exactly. It went right in one ear and out the other with that reporter. Liberals don’t even know how to spell the word shame. That reporter Wil, be right back asking the same old dumb questions again. DeSantis gave a good response, but the reporter is far from shamed over it
[[O’Brien interjected: “It’s a swear about the president.”]]
Bet DeSantis was wanting to say “ gosh Nancy, you ain’t gonna faint are you? Trump took 8t day in and day out and you media dished it to him by the bucket loads. He took it like a man. Is your president biden so delicate that he can’t handle criticism are you so de,icate that you fall all to,pieces when you get back what you folks dished out for so many years to Trump?”
We’ll, basically the entire Democrapic Potty is chanting “F——— Americans” all day every day, so I have absolutely no hesitation to give it back to them.
but the point is, even when the media were the good guys, they weren’t utterly deferential to the president
And that’s a good thing
regardless of the media is left or right leaning, and regardless if the president is left or right leaning
EVERY American President needs to be criticized (factually) and within the editorial and entertaiment functions of media, every President needs to be laughed at and editorially criticized
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