Was I dreaming, or was Andrea Mitchell once a relatively trustworthy journalist? Was it working at MSNBC that rotted her professionalism away completely, as with poor Chris Matthews?

Because this is disgusting.

Last week, on her pompously titeled show “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Mitchell asked Kamala Harris, “What does Governor Ron Desantis not know about black history and the black experience when he says that slavery and the aftermath of slavery should not be taught to Florida schoolchildren?” Florida’s governor never said that, not has he advocated that, nor has any other Republican official or pundit not now residing in a padded cell. That’s a deliberately dishonest Democratic, anti-DeSantis, pro-Critical Race Theory talking point designed for consumption by lazy, gullible and uninformed citizens.

Harris might have won a bit of respect had she corrected Mitchell, but she’s an unethical hack too, so naturally she acted as if it was a fair question.Or she didn’t know it was nonsense: with Harris its hard to tell.

DeSantis’s press secretary was on the job, tweeting,

Indeed it does. From the  state requirements,  guidelines DeSantis supported and approved:

…Instructional personnel may facilitate discussions and use curricula to address, in an age-appropriate manner, how the individual freedoms of persons have been infringed by slavery, racial oppression, racial segregation, and racial discrimination, as well as topics relating to the enactment and enforcement of laws resulting in racial oppression, racial segregation, and racial discrimination and how recognition of these freedoms has overturned these unjust laws….

Students shall develop an understanding of the ramifications of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping on individual freedoms, and examine what it means to be a responsible and respectful person, for the purpose of encouraging tolerance of diversity in a pluralistic society and for nurturing and protecting democratic values and institutions.

Thus Mitchell’s statement to the Vice-President was either deliberate lie or incompetent misrepresentation. That’s not opinion, as Marissa Tomei told Fred Gwynn in “My Cousin Vinny,” it’s fact. Yet neither Mirchell nor her Dark Lords at MSNBC thought it necessary to correct their falsehood, probably because they were doing their job as anti-Republican operatives well.

After days passed without a correction or an apology, Griffin tweeted,

Well, that’s a bit of fiction: it’s certainly too late for the truth to cleanse the obvious perfidy and journalistic disgrace practiced by MSNBC and Mitchell. Finally, Mitchell deigned to tell viewers that what she had said wasn’t exactly accurate, and lied again. This time DeSantis’s Deputy Press Secretary Jeremy Redfern “pounced”:

Thus did Mitchell add deceit to her outright lie. Stating X as fact when the truth is Not X isn’t being “imprecise,” and after that misrepresentation, Mitchell resorts to the tactic of representing some “historians and teachers”—those dedicated to an anti-white, anti-US “1619 Project” distortion of U.S. history— as most or all historians and teachers. It was neither an apology or a correction. Mitchell doubled down on her lie.

That’s “advocacy journalism” for you! It’s also partisan propaganda, flagrant hackery, and the kind of biased and deliberately misleading journalism that led Donald Trump to conclude that the 2020 election was stolen…for which there is “no evidence,” as Mitchell’s colleagues at the Post and the Times will say until the stars turn cold.

No evidence but Andrea Mitchell and her ilk, every day, in myriad articles, news stories and broadcast news reports…

DeSantis, through Griffin, reacted the way the Trump administration should have once it became clear that the news media had abandoned journalism for partisan warfare:

Perfect.