There’s an entire cottage industry in America centered around trashing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis with the national media setting the standard — all of which suggests how much the left fears a possible 2024 matchup with the popular Republican.
In the quest to tarnish DeSantis, nothing is off limits, including attacking his wife Casey DeSantis, the mother of three small children who not too long ago emerged from a battle with breast cancer. Any topic is game and in the rush to carry its share of the water, Business Insider inaccurately reported that more people moved out of Florida in 2021 than California or New York.
Preserved for their eternal embarrassment:https://t.co/6ET8hPQuHy
— Bojac (@HeartlessBojac) July 11, 2023
But the liberal outlet was left with egg on its face after Team DeSantis pointed out that the reporter got it wrong in claiming that 674,740 residents left Florida, while 433,402 residents left California and 287,249 residents moved from New York — Business Insider said in the article that the data “undercuts the narrative that people are leaving states like New York and California more disproportionately than other highly populated states.”
“Business Insider journalist @NeubauerKelsey apparently does not know how to read a spreadsheet. That figure — 674,740 — is people who moved TO Florida, not OUT OF Florida. Retraction needed,” Rapid Response Director Christian Pushaw tweeted.
Business Insider journalist @NeubauerKelsey apparently does not know how to read a spreadsheet.
That figure — 674,740 — is people who moved TO Florida, not OUT OF Florida.
Retraction needed. https://t.co/JTuDt7Ae66
— Christina Pushaw (@ChristinaPushaw) July 11, 2023
Business Insider would be forced to delete a tweet promoting the hit piece and reworked the original article to admit, “We got it wrong: More people moved out of New York and California than Florida in 2021.”
“This story has been updated to correct an error regarding Census data. In 2021, an estimated 469,577 people moved out of Florida, while 674,740 people relocated to the state. An earlier version of the story switched those numbers,” a note from the editor read.
With so many people flocking there, Florida’s real estate market is thriving and, par for the course, DeSantis is attacked for housing costs being on the rise in the Sunshine State, with critics claiming this is the result of his poor management.
In calling attention to the reporter extraordinaire’s pronouns, Pushaw said in a follow-up: “Kelsey Neubauer (she/her pronouns) is a Columbia University journalism graduate and … get this… a REAL ESTATE REPORTER. If more people moved OUT of Florida than any other state, please explain why the Florida real estate market is like this….”
Kelsey Neubauer (she/her pronouns) is a Columbia University journalism graduate and … get this… a REAL ESTATE REPORTER.
If more people moved OUT of Florida than any other state, please explain why the Florida real estate market is like this…. pic.twitter.com/JorbOK5TSE
— Christina Pushaw (@ChristinaPushaw) July 11, 2023
She also tweeted, “I am not sure what their editorial process is at [Business Insider] — but an error of this magnitude obviously should have been caught by an editor well before publication. This calls into question the accuracy of all their real estate reporting.”
DeSantis press secretary Jeremy Redfern responded to the controversy by expressing his appreciation for the correction.
“I do want to thank @nichcarlson for taking this error seriously and ensuring that the record was corrected publicly. Very rare these days for me to get a public correction. Most outlets delete the story and pretend it never happened,” Redfern tweeted.
I do want to thank @nichcarlson for taking this error seriously and ensuring that the record was corrected publicly.
Very rare these days for me to get a public correction. Most outlets delete the story and pretend it never happened.
— Jeremy Redfern (@JeremyRedfernFL) July 11, 2023
The entire story was summed up nicely by a photo shared on Twitter — it features a Florida license plate that reads: “FLED NJ.”
— The Beach From Florida (@BeachFrmFL) July 11, 2023
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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