Instantly and with none proof, the Saturday version of CNN This Morning Weekend urged that if Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have been to change into president, he may goal firms who produce advertisements with interracial {couples} in the identical manner he went after Disney.

As Disney formally loses its sensible city-state standing, host Boris Sanchez requested professor emeritus of political science at Rollins Faculty and creator of Married to the Mouse: Walt Disney World and Orlando Richard Foglesong, “And notably as you talked about, Governor DeSantis does have probably presidential aspirations. Within the latest strikes that he is made, it’s notable that as you mentioned, he’s a Republican. Republicans are sometimes a lot extra pleasant to non-public companies, proper? What do you make of what critics are calling an infringement on a non-public entity?”

There’s a large distinction between being pleasant in the direction of non-public enterprise and permitting enterprise to function independently of state legislation and talking of state legislation, CNN’s chyron continued the custom of peddling the false narrative that the legislation is named the “Don’t Say Homosexual Regulation.” 

For his half, Foglesong’s response began effectively sufficient. Attempting to be the dispassionate educational, he recalled that he was “shocked final summer time when this was proposed” and that point will inform if it pays off for DeSantis, “we’ll see whether or not politics have modified sufficient in order that an anti-wokeness technique that he is pursuing perhaps subsequently in his presidential marketing campaign will work even when he’s utilizing it in opposition to main company and punishing them, in impact, for talking out.”

Nevertheless, Foglesong then took a pointy left and launched right into a wild hypothetical, “Will different large firms, Ford Motor, those that publicize at the Tremendous Bowl, are they be frightened that this governor, if president, would do the identical factor to them once they run commercials that present racially blended {couples} collectively. We’ll see if that occurs, however politics has modified. It is extra about cultural points as of late than it was about — than it’s about economics, taxes, problems with that kind.”

At no level has DeSantis or another Republican come out and mentioned that they’ve an issue with interracial relationships. If firms are frightened it’s due to conspiracy theory-filled TV segments like this one.

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Here’s a transcript for the February 11 present: 

CNN This Morning Weekend

2/11/2023

7:47 AM ET

BORIS SANCHEZ: And notably as you talked about, Governor DeSantis does have probably presidential aspirations. Within the latest strikes that he is made, it’s notable that as you mentioned, he’s a Republican. Republicans are sometimes a lot extra pleasant to non-public companies, proper? 

RICHARD FOGLESONG: Completely.

SANCHEZ: What do you make of what critics are calling an infringement on a non-public entity? 

FOGLESONG: Yeah, I used to be shocked final summer time when this was proposed and I am shocked now too. We’ll see the way it performs for him. He’s a cultural warrior. We all know that. This all began together with his assault on wokeness, wokeness in our public faculties, wokeness within the range and coaching program used on campus, so to talk, by the Disney firm and we’ll see whether or not politics have modified sufficient in order that an anti-wokeness technique that he is pursuing perhaps subsequently in his presidential marketing campaign will work even when he’s utilizing it in opposition to main company and punishing them, in impact, for talking out. Will different large firms, Ford Motor, those that publicize at the Tremendous Bowl, are they be frightened that this governor, if president, would do the identical factor to them once they run commercials that present racially blended {couples} collectively. 

We’ll see if that occurs, however politics has modified. It is extra about cultural points as of late than it was about — than it’s about economics, taxes, problems with that kind.