The New York Times tried — and failed — Wednesday to fact-check Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) claim that Florida is not banning books. DeSantis called the claim, repeated by Democrats like Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), a “hoax.”
Newsom and other Democrats — including, on Wednesday, White House Press Secreatry Karine Jean-Pierre — have used the book ban hoax to smear DeSantis and Republicans:
Reading some banned books to figure out what these states are so afraid of. pic.twitter.com/z6eJ01NZJe
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) March 31, 2022
(Ironically, one of the books Newsom posed with in the photo above, To Kill a Mockingbird, was actually banned temporarily by a school district in Newsom’s own State of California because of concerns about the use of racial language in the text.)
“The whole book ban thing is a hoax,” DeSantis said, during his…
