DeSantis spox unloads on reporter after attacks: ‘You’re a pathetic and disgusting misogynist’

Unlike the path of Hurricane Ian, there isn’t much to the “cone of uncertainty” when it comes to the progressive game plan and when one pundit turned a political attack against Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) over his handling of the hurricane into a personal attack against his Rapid Response Director Christina Pushaw, she had more than a few things to say about the “disgusting filthy bottom feeder.”

Latching on to The New York Times Monday morning quarterbacking on the statewide response to Ian ahead of it making landfall, Peter Schorsch, of the website FloridaPolitics, was readily called out for suggesting that DeSantis had not been warning Floridians about the dangerous storm, but was instead attending a high school football game.

After the governor’s communications director Lindsey Curnutte corrected Schrosch for his remarks tweeting, “This is false and dishonest. That Friday, the Governor issued a State of Emergency [Executive Order] that included SW FL as Ian’s path was only beginning to form. Between that time and landfall, [DeSantis] has held 12 press [conferences] and consistently advised to follow local evacuation orders.”

Instead of letting the matter go, Schorsch continued his escalation that ultimately brought down the wrath of Pushaw.

“This is a Governor who, without telling the elections police chief what the purpose of a press conference he was ordered to go to, can fly into one county to announce arrest of misled ex-con voters but he couldn’t fly to SW Florida on Fri or Sat and issue a warning about storm?… instead he went to a high school football game. The folks in SW FL are [DeSantis’] people! They worship the guy. He could have been more forceful. He’s doing good [with] recovery but this is a black mark,” Schorsch maintained as he evidently tweeted from more than a thousand miles away in New York City.

It was then that Pushaw chimed in, slamming Schorsch not only for misrepresenting the timeline which initially showed the hurricane making landfall further to the north, but also for evidently predicting what the National Hurricane Center (NHC) hadn’t, and then keeping it to himself.

“This is what the NHC predicted last weekend,” she replied with a screenshot depicting the expected trajectory of Ian. “Landfall in Big Bend and thru Tallahassee. Why would the Governor have flown south to warn of a hurricane hitting St. George’s Island hundreds of miles away? If you predicted the true track when NHC didn’t, why didn’t you warn anyone?”

Again, instead of letting the matter drop when confronted with facts, Schorsch seemed determined to escalate, and this time he took his gripe with DeSantis’ disaster management and made it into a personal attack against Pushaw writing, “I know Xtina is still relatively new to Florida so we’ll excuse her for not grasping the ‘cone of uncertainty’ concept.”

Her reputation for handling trolls on Twitter was well represented in her comeback to Schorsch when she fired off a one-two punch obliterating his broken logic: “You literally said he should have flown to SWFL last weekend to tell people to evacuate there. SWFL was not in the cone. You are a pathetic and disgusting misogynist, and this state is worse off because of you.”

“Or is your position that the governor should have ordered an evacuation of the entire State of Florida because all of it was in the cone at one time or another?” Pushaw asked. “How in the world does that make any sense? I may be ‘new to Florida’ but I know when you’re full of [sh*t].”

Try as he might to bite back after getting summarily owned for his shoddy attempt to politicize DeSantis’ hurricane response, Pushaw still looked to get the better of him after he came back with, “You’re getting angrier and angrier, Xtina. I’d hate for you to burst a cheekbone.”

“Yes,” she assented, “how dare I get angry at you, a disgusting filthy bottom feeder sitting in NYC trying to politicize a fatal disaster in Florida for clicks?”

Pushaw’s efforts were well supported on social media as others responded to her takedown of Schorsch.

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