{"id":829177,"date":"2022-10-06T16:41:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T16:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/?p=409825"},"modified":"2022-10-06T16:41:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T16:41:47","slug":"ron-desantis-claim-that-regime-media-wanted-hurricane-ian-to-hit-tampa-echoed-fox-news-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/10\/06\/ron-desantis-claim-that-regime-media-wanted-hurricane-ian-to-hit-tampa-echoed-fox-news-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron DeSantis Claim That “Regime Media” Wanted Hurricane Ian to Hit Tampa Echoed Fox News Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday,<\/u>\u00a0Republican\u00a0Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told a right-wing journalist that “regime media” in the United States had “wanted to see Tampa” devastated by Hurricane Ian “because they thought that would be worse for Florida.” A\u00a0clip<\/a> of the conspiratorial comments quickly went viral \u2014 largely because many of DeSantis’s critics on the left had no idea what he was talking about. The detractors were\u00a0shocked at the\u00a0offhand comparison of American news organizations outside the conservative media ecosystem to state-run propaganda outlets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

DeSantis had been asked by Brendon Leslie, the founder of a conservative news site \u2014 and a Republican activist who told local news<\/a> on January 6, 2021, that he was following President Donald Trump’s orders when he stormed the U.S. Capitol<\/a> \u2014 if the media was at fault for storm forecasts that had stressed the danger to the city of Tampa instead of other areas that were badly hit.<\/p>\n


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I asked Governor DeSantis about media accountability and he absolutely demolished them<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t care about the people of this state\u2026 they want to use destruction from storms as a way to advance their agenda\u201d pic.twitter.com\/IErBHfwkuJ<\/a><\/p>\n

— Brendon Leslie (@BrendonLeslie) October 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n