DeSantis' new Gadsden flag Florida license plate 'symbolizes a dangerous far-right extremist ideology:' NPR

NPR Hitting Piece Takes Aim At Florida Gov. DeSantis, New 'Gadsden Flag' License Plate

Charlie Kirk

Friday, Baronial 12, 2022

Taxpayer-subsidized NPR continues to serve as a propaganda outlet for the Democratic Party, merely like most other for-profit mainstream media outlets.

The latest case is embodied in a hit piece against Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis and a new license plate his state just unveiled.

On Wednesday, the outlet accused the Sunshine Land governor of creating a controversy for tweeting out the new plate which contains the Gadsden flag.

The hit piece's author, Scott Neuman, claimed that the "Don't Tread On Me" symbolism on the flag which stems to the nation's founding is now, suddenly, allegorical of "far-right extremist credo."

The flag, by the mode, was flown during the Revolutionary War as a symbol of resistance.

"The imagery of the Revolutionary War-era Gadsden flag dates to Benjamin Franklin but has, for many, come to symbolize a far-correct extremist credo and the 'Stop the Steal' motility that sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election results," Neuman asserted.

NPR's tweet itself was a mini-hit piece: "Gov. Ron DeSantis said a new Florida license plate featuring the Revolutionary War-era Gadsden flag sends a 'clear message to out-of-state cars.' Critics say it symbolizes a unsafe far-right extremist ideology."

Gov. Ron DeSantis said a new Florida license plate featuring the Revolutionary War-era Gadsden flag sends a "articulate message to out-of-state cars." Critics say it symbolizes a dangerous far-right extremist ideology.https://t.co/7rU6zTwj9p

— NPR (@NPR) August 11, 2022

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DeSantis has long used the Gadsden flag as a symbol of Florida's freedom. He tweeted out the paradigm on July 30 with a call for pre-orders for the plates while announcing that the proceeds would go to the Florida Veterans Foundation.

He tweeted a Florida-inspired version of the Gadsden flag in 2021 after calling for a special session to ban vaccine mandates also.

"The gratis state of Florida has a new license plate for pre-club that benefits the Florida Veterans Foundation and sends a clear message to out-of-state cars, 'Don't Tread on Me' or Florida," DeSantis noted on the platform.

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— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) July 30, 2022

For his hit piece, Neuman fabricated sure to quote conservative-hating leftist 'experts' like Rachel Carroll Rivas, the deputy managing director of enquiry and assay for the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Heart.

"She says it'due south become clear that the flag has been used for some 'really awful' causes, most notably the Jan. half dozen insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, where violent protesters attacked police as part of an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election," Neuman wrote.

He and so noted — correctly — that while the flag symbolism is certainly protected speech, information technology's not something he agrees with.

"Extreme or non, Kickoff Amendment scholars such equally Eugene Volokh of the UCLA Schoolhouse of Police say the Gadsden flag and the 'Don't Tread on Me' motto are legitimate — and protected — speech, whether they are on a flag waving within the besieged U.S. Capitol or on a vehicle license plate heading down a Florida highway," he noted.

NPR should lose all public funding and so see if the outlet tin stand up on its own. It is pathetic that a taxpayer-supported 'media' outlet tin so casually insult more than half the country.