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RE: Gov Abbott sends migrants to VP residence
(09-22-2022 11:44 AM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote: 'Punked': DeSantis 'Plan' to Ship Illegal Aliens to Biden's Delaware Home Arrives...Not Even Close
Quote:Oh, this was good. And you know Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis loves every minute of it. After sending 50 illegal aliens to Martha’s Vineyard, setting the stage for traumatized Vineyard residents to reveal their hypocritical selves to the world, word had it that DeSantis’s next target was Joe Biden’s Delaware home.
The media being its silly media self, ran with the “news” like wildfire. Daily Mail proclaimed in a headline:
First Martha’s Vineyard, Now Joe’s Backyard! Delaware Readies for Surprise Influx of Migrants After Plane Used by DeSantis to Drop Venezuelans in Martha’s Vineyard Prepares to Touch Down
Game on. DeSantis’s cat-and-mouse game, that is. Reuters warned:
Delaware braces for migrant flight in U.S. political standoff
Oops.
More via Reuters:
Local government officials, advocates and reporters swarmed a small coastal airport near President Joe Biden’s vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Tuesday in anticipation of a possible flight carrying migrants from Texas.
Flight tracking websites showed a scheduled flight set to leave San Antonio, Texas, heading to Georgetown, Delaware, on Tuesday chartered by the same company that was used by Florida’s Republican governor Ron DeSantis to send migrants to the wealthy island of Martha’s Vineyard last week.
Sorry, not even close.
As one might assume, The Most Trusted Name in News was all over the “breaking” news, as well.
NBC News digital national political reporter Marc Caputo quoted a source close to DeSantis:
The source told NBC:
He didn’t tell anyone and purposely left people in the dark. So technically the media, the Democrats, everyone got punked who decided to heed some s— on Twitter instead of waiting for confirmation from the governor’s office. The entire point of this is to put a spotlight on the border. It’s what the governor has said.
And DeSantis, along with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, has masterfully done exactly that.
DeSantis campaign rapid response director Christina Pushaw nailed it in a tweet, as well.
Lol yup. All these reporters who are suddenly so interested in illegal immigration that they swarmed Delaware today, should try visiting the border once in a while. They’ll find plenty of illegal immigrants there.
To be fair, RedState also reported on the story, under the title (emphasis mine), Ron DeSantis May Have a Special Delivery for Joe Biden in Delaware, in which we included an image of a purported flight plan. That said, we made the point, as did Christina Pushaw, that the real issue is the continuing Biden Border Crisis.
So, what did happen?
If the flight never arrived near Biden’s Delaware home, where did it land? Some reports suggested New Jersey; others said it never left the ground. But, as The Tampa Bay Times reported, after hours of delays, the flight departed San Antonio and headed to Nashville. The Times further reported there were no indications that illegals were aboard the flight, after all.
Here’s more from The Times:
Before the change, the flight’s ultimate destination had appeared to be a Delaware airport near Biden’s Rehoboth Beach vacation home, according to data posted on the website FlightAware. That followed a pattern: Former president Barack Obama owns a vacation home in Martha’s Vineyard, an island in Massachusetts.
It’s not clear what happened and DeSantis’ office didn’t respond to questions.
So, was this the punk job of the year — or did the rabid liberal media get out over their skis?
Was the flight originally destined for Delaware but ended up diverting to Nashville? That seems highly unlikely given there were apparently no illegal aliens aboard. Either way, does it matter? No.
Why? Because, as was the case with the brilliantly orchestrated Martha’s Vineyard drop-off of 50 illegals and the hypocritical left’s histrionic response, this time DeSantis didn’t even have to pull the trigger to once again illustrate the left’s hypocritical concern about a bunch of illegals “coming to a town near (liberal) you.”
The bottom line:
As the media continues to rage about flights of illegal aliens by Governors DeSantis and Abbott to Democrat strongholds as “inhumane,” “illegal human trafficking,” and worse, it’s these two “We’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore” governors who continue to demonstrate real democracy — a far cry from Biden’s silly warning that Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are “the greatest threat to our democracy.” Unless that is, we’re talking about Democrat Party-style “democracy.”
Outrage Shift In The Press As Today Ron DeSantis Is Cruel for NOT Engaging In ‘Human Trafficking'
Quote:Last week’s outrage makes a complete 180 as today Ron DeSantis not flying immigrants across the country is the problem.
Think of all the hysterics we have been presented with this past week, regarding the flight of 48 migrants to Martha’s Vineyard by Governor Ron DeSantis. It was “human trafficking”, and/or it was “kidnapping”. A lawsuit has been drawn up as a result – of course. A camera-snuggling sheriff in Texas is making the media rounds claiming he will investigate DeSantis…despite saying, “I’m not able to definitively say here’s the statute that they broke.”
Now today, DeSantis is accused of more human rights abuses – because he did not do these same things.
Yes, according to the reliably error-prone Miami Herald, Ron DeSantis is now considered in the wrong because he did not engage in kidnapping and human trafficking. It would all be laughable if it was not so reflective of just how off-kilter our press industry has become. The latest contempt stems from the flight to Delaware that had the press in a tumult yesterday but never materialized. Based on Twitter assertions, journalists flocked to the tarmac at Delaware Coastal Airport to capture the event.
The possibility of a few dozen immigrants brought to Biden’s doorstep drew more media interest than hundreds of thousands spread across the Texas border landscape.
The anti-climatic drama around this flight had the press perturbed. USA Today was bothered because based on the internet hype the outlet dispatched reporters and camera crews to airports in Texas and Florida. To properly underscore the melodramatics, the outlet said the non-news of the flight “sowed chaos across three states on Tuesday and brought public condemnation from the White House.” I would offer a brief edit to the coverage; “self-sowed chaos” would be a better description.
At the Miami Herald, the lack of a flight to become enraged about did not stop the paper from becoming enraged at Ron DeSantis. Today the paper decided that since this flight transporting migrants did not take place then that would become the reason to shriek in print at the governor. It turns out, according to the dependably dyspeptic demagogues at The Herald, that migrants in Texas have been “stranded” by Governor DeSantis.
The migrants didn’t know that they were being swept up in an operation that bore striking similarities to one organized the week before by operatives for Gov. Ron DeSantis that ended with 48 Venezuelan migrants dropped off on a Massachusetts island. They also didn’t know that an anonymous source close to DeSantis would suggest to NBC News that a planned charter flight from San Antonio to Delaware — that was destined for an airport not far from President Joe Biden’s summer home, according to flight records, and dominated cable news on Tuesday — was canceled without explanation.
Let’s follow along with their fractured logic. After roughly a week of wailing that DeSantis is a criminal, a human rights abuser, a kidnapper, and a vile politician for flying migrants across the country, today he is just as vile and worthy of scorn for not engaging in those immoral acts. In the article the Herald offers a video shot on Martha’s Vineyard where Domingo Garcia, of the League of United Latin American Citizens, referred to these flights as being political stunts, “and we want them to stop.”
Now when DeSantis does not fly migrants out he is demonized anew, this time because he left migrants stranded? These people avoided inhumane treatment and did not have their human rights violated, to use the charges from the press this past week. This should be considered good news.
Meanwhile, the press in Delaware packed up and went back to their respective offices of the news outlets. They did not go to the border. The story of migrants near Biden’s home was important, not the flash flood of arrivals in Texas – which gets covered by Bill Melugin and angers Biden in the process.
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