Fox Is Giving DeSantis A Leg Up!

DeSantis is being groomed by Fox.

 

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The far-right outlet is trying to groom the controversial Florida governor for 2024 once Washed Up 45 is out of the picture. We are still under the impression that the former president is seeking to run for election in 2024.

If he does run, he will likely suck the air out the room. But in case he doesn't run, the far-right outlet is propping up Florida governor Karen DeSantis.

Do you remember when DeSantis barred most of the junk food media from the signing of the controversial voting law? I remember that only one network was allowed to be in the presence of the governor and Republican lawmakers.

Fox.

That is one of the many controversial things the far-right outlet and governor are conspiring towards a soon to be announcement of running for president.

In a global pandemic in which 645,000 Americans are killed from the COVID-19 delta and lambda variants, DeSantis believes that it's essential for Floridians and Americans to get back to work.

The Tampa Bay Times has found, with the two sides coordinating coverage and story elements in an effort to build up the governor’s profile as the new star of the Republican Party.

The network has elevated DeSantis especially on his opposition to COVID-19 lockdowns — or even any public health restrictions at all, with the governor now opposing local mandates for everything from masks in schools to vaccinations in hospitals. This summer, the state’s hospitalizations have broken its previous records from 2020.

And while DeSantis has even banned private businesses from requiring their customers to be vaccinated, thus further hindering efforts to stop the spread of infections, he is now also promoting the therapeutic use of Regeneron, the monoclonal antibody treatment that former president received in 2020 — and which is also being promoted by Fox host "Softball" Hannity.

The Tampa Bay Times obtained via a records request 1,250 pages of emails between Fox News and DeSantis’ office, spanning a four-month period beginning near the end of 2020. The paper’s analysis found: “From the week of the 2020 election through February, the network asked DeSantis to appear on its airwaves 113 times, or nearly once a day.” The paper also found that in the first six months of 2021, DeSantis had appeared on Fox eight times with Hannity, seven times with Karen Ingraham, and six times with Tuckems.

In one example, a Fox producer told DeSantis’ office that anchor Karen MacCallum had set out to “look forward and really spotlight the STARS of the GOP,” and that “she named Gov. DeSantis as one.”

Another producer bluntly said in an email: “We see him as the future of the party.” Indeed, more than being just the “future” of the Republican Party, Fox itself played a key role in DeSantis’ past ascent to the GOP nomination for governor back in 2018, when the then-congressman’s frequent appearances on the network helped bring him to the attention of the network’s most important viewer at the time Washed Up 45.

The article opens with an incident from January when, “during a period marked by confusion and images of seniors in long lines desperate for a shot, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office devised a pitch to air a more flattering view. “ Fox & Friends was given exclusive coverage of an event featuring DeSantis with senior citizens receiving COVID-19 vaccinations — and as the article notes, “No other media would be allowed in.”

Fox's most annoying media personality is notorious for softball interviews with Republicans.

“I honestly think he could host the show with the chops we saw from him at the vaccine site,” said a Fox producer, in an email to DeSantis’ deputy director for communications.

It is worth adding that a similar event occurred later in May, beyond the scope of the newspaper’s analysis, when DeSantis gave Fox & Friends exclusive coverage for his signing of a new voter suppression law. DeSantis signed the bill live on cable television while barring media outlets in Florida from being able to cover the event, a move that violated decades of First Amendment jurisprudence and the principles of free speech.

But perhaps the single most egregious example happened earlier this year, when DeSantis was set to appear on the January 28 edition of Fox News Primetime with rotating host and Fox anchor Karen Bartiromo. Hours before the show, DeSantis’ office sent Fox a graph that compared the hospitalization rate in Florida to the “locked down states” of New York and California.

When DeSantis appeared on the show, Fox aired the graph, simply redone in its own house style, while still carrying the same heading text of “Hospitalizations per 1 Million” and “Florida vs. Locked Down States,” and even the same color scheme for labeling the names of each state. The newspaper notes that there was “no indication from the broadcast that the chart had originated in the governor’s office.” But actually watching the video makes the whole thing far worse, as anybody watching the show would have thought the graph had originated from Fox’s production team, rather than DeSantis’ staff.

During the broadcast, Bartiromo said that “We have graphics here that show how well Florida is doing.”