'Reporter' Says It's Her Job to Make Ron DeSantis 'Uncomfortable,' Things Don't Go as Planned

Ron DeSantis’ ability to zero in and take down the left-wing narratives that so-called “reporters” arm themselves with during press conferences has become the stuff of legends in conservative circles.

Tuesday was no exception to that rule.

During a presser DeSantis held alongside Republican leaders from the state legislature to announce “comprehensive legal reforms” that are “more in line with the rest of the country and that will bring more businesses and jobs to Florida,” First Coast News reporter Atyia Collins was overheard talking about how it was her job to make the Florida governor “uncomfortable” by asking “tough questions.”

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For reference, this is the journactivist today: pic.twitter.com/A6J0cRIil6

— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) February 14, 2023

Now while Collins was right in that members of the media should not treat elected officials with kid gloves and should indeed ask them tough questions, the problem here is that a) the mainstream media is never consistent on this, as evidenced by the many, many times Democrats get softballs from the press, and b) the “uncomfortable” questions they ask oftentimes sound like “woke” left-wing talking points in question form.

And option “b” is exactly what happened in this particular case, as you can see from the below clip. But DeSantis of course wasn’t “uncomfortable” at all. In fact, he nuked the “book banning” narrative Collins tried to push regarding Florida’s guidelines on keeping children’s books kid friendly and not pornographic in short order:

Referring to a video of empty bookshelves in a class library, DeSantis said it was a fake video and that “the books hadn’t been put out” in the first place and was just an attempt at “creating some narrative.”

“There’s no need for all of that stuff, what they’re trying to do is they’re trying to act like we don’t want books,” DeSantis said. “You hear people talk about felony charges. Understand, nothing we’ve done since I’ve been governor has done any of that. Now, there is longstanding Florida law that prohibits an adult from giving a school child pornography. Don’t we think that’s inappropriate to do? But that’s been a law for a long time.”

The governor said people were complaining to “virtue signal” and that he had instructed the Florida Department of Education to speak with schools about content and removals. He also said the state was intent on providing power to parents when it came to content access.

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Gov. DeSantis refutes false media narrative about "book bans":

"Florida law prohibits an adult from giving a school child pornography…that's been the law for a long time. So understand, they're talking about long standing Florida law that's trying to protect young children." pic.twitter.com/FxsydC4PRQ

— DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) February 14, 2023

As the Florida Dept. of Education also noted, it’s not DeSantis but teachers’ unions – unsurprisingly – that are the ones scaring Florida educators into thinking they’ll be arrested and charged with a felony if they put something on their bookshelves DeSantis doesn’t like.

Just another day in the life of reporters and DeSantis in Florida, with DeSantis – and concerned parents – coming out on top.