MRC Still Defending DeSantis’ Anti-LGBT Education Plans

The Media Research Center has been an enthusiastic defender of all things Ron DeSantis, but especially his efforts to make education in Florida skew more toward right-wing indoctrination. Kevin Tober complained in a March 22 post:

With the news of Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis giving a lengthy sitdown interview with Fox Nation’s Piers Morgan in which he called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal,” ABC’s World News Tonight used that as an opportunity to bemoan DeSantis also seeking to ban LGBTQ and other forms of sexual indoctrination and grooming in 4th through 12-grade public schools. Since the Democrat Party [sic] narrative was more important than facts on ABC, anchor David Muir referred to Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law as “don’t say gay.” This was despite the fact that the word “gay” appears nowhere in the text of the law. 

Regardless, Muir was either ignorant of that basic fact or he knew what he was saying wasn’t true and decided to say it anyway. After teasing the story on DeSantis’s comments during the Piers Morgan interview, Muir previewed the news, saying, “DeSantis and a potential plan to extend Florida’s don’t say gay policy in schools all the way to the 12th grade.”

Leftist hack and ABC senior congressional correspondent Rachel Scott used a portion of her report to bemoan how DeSantis was expanding his anti-grooming legislation to include fourth through twelfth grades:

The term “anti-grooming” doesn’t appear in the text of the law either, which means that by his own rules, Tober  is not allowed to refer to it as “anti-grooming legislation.” He also did not explain how merely acknowledging the existence of LGBT people in a school setting equates to “grooming.”

Tober went on to rant that “Regurgitating the talking points of gay and transgender activists, Scott ghoulishly suggested the legislation could cause some students to commit suicide: ‘[O]pponents say students all the way up to their senior year who may be struggling, could be cut off from teachers who could help.'” Tober, of course, is regurgitating the talking points of right-wing anti-LGBT activists, and he didn’t disprove anything Scott said, despite whining that “leftists like her want to impose their sexual issues on young school children.” How is acknowledging that LGBT people exist a “sexual issue”? Tober didn’t explain.

Houck spent a March 23 post complaining that a non-right-wing news outlet didn’t sound like DeSantis’ PR team:

Thursday’s Good Morning America continued ABC’s smears of Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) by lamenting he’s “doubl[ing] down” on the “controversial” “Don’t Say Gay policy” as part of his obsession with exacerbating “hot button issues” and “cultural divisions” that pose a risk to the mental health of students by not allowing them to explore sex.

“DeSantis doubles down. Details on the Florida governor’s new move to expand what critics call the Don’t Say Gay policy and the reaction this morning,” announced fill-in co-host Whit Johnson, adding later at the start of the formal segment that DeSantis wants to expand “the controversial law.”

Senior White House correspondent and Biden shill Mary Bruce was on the case. After she said “DeSantis has become a real champion for conservative, cultural concerns” and has “lean[ed] even more into…hot button issues,” she also dubbed his call to expand the Parental Rights in Education Act.

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Shifting into defensive mode, she posited that “opponents say it could put students at risk, barring young people, even those in their senior year, from seeking a teacher’s help if they’re struggling with their identity.”

Ah, so it’s harmful that students can’t engage in gender mutilation?

Like a good, unofficial White House flack, she touted Karine Jean-Pierre’s attack on DeSantis, summarizing her thoughts as arguing he’s “part of a disturbing and dangerous trend of laws targeting the LGBTQ community.”

Houck sounds like a good, unofficial DeSantis flack, so his attack on Bruce is painfully ironic. Still, he went on to whine: “No word on what she thinks about men competing in women’s sports or what age she thinks is too young for kids to change their gender or discuss sex.” No word from Houck on what age people are allowed to learn that LGBT exist — or if thinks all mention of them should be ciomplegely eradicated from society so knowledge of their existence is punishable by law.

Tober returned to rant in a March 26 post:

Proving that their DeSantis derangement syndrome is incurable, Sunday’s “Powerhouse Roundtable” on ABC’s This Week went after Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis for wanting to protect public school children from perverted groomers and racial arsonists. ABC contributor and former Democrat National Committee chairwoman Donna Brazile lashed out at DeSantis and proclaimed he is “running on a 1950s America, not a 2050 America.” Moments later Politico associate editor Alex Burns said with a straight face that President Joe Biden was “always more of a centrist.”  Going from trashing DeSantis to praising Biden within moments is the kind of contrast that makes even the casual viewer realize ABC is essentially state-run television on behalf of the Biden regime. 

Again, Tober didn’t explain how acknowledging the existence of LGBT people equals “grooming,” or how pointing out that slavery and discrimination is bad makes one a “racial arsonist.” And if ABC is “essentially state-run television on behalf of the Biden regime,” the MRC is clearly a state-run website on behalf of the DeSantis regime.