For someone who has gone out of his way countless times to make it clear just how much he disdains the national media, Ron DeSantis is now remarkably trusting of his newfound friends outside of Fox News.
NBC on Monday aired what is only the second non-Fox national TV interview, and for reasons that remain a mystery, DeSantis once again agreed to let them cut up and cut out his answers for the final product. He previously granted an interview to Jake Tapper under the same condition.
Both events have been disasters.
It’s truly astounding that there still exist Republicans who haven’t yet learned a fundamental fact about the media: You can trust them to relay the truth the same way you can trust Lizzo to fast for a day.
And when they’re not explicitly deceiving the public, they’re engaged in some other trifling behavior for the purpose of sabotaging whichever Republican is dumb enough to give them the benefit of the doubt.
The interview DeSantis taped last month with Tapper aired in the dead-asleep 4 p.m. ET hour, and every other question was interrupted with live segments analyzing Donald Trump’s latest legal woes. The full video was under 20 minutes and was only played in 3-minute increments before Tapper and some other CNN dork cut it off to talk about something else. There is no point in wasting the time to do the interview if that’s how it’s going to be delivered.
If that wasn’t terrible enough, the NBC
