Voters who only read headlines might think Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is teaching children that slavery was a good thing, but there are lies, damn lies, and Democratic media talking points.

Florida’s history standards would be uncontroversial if they had been produced by anyone other than former President Donald Trump’s top rival for the presidential nomination. The liberal media are, in this as in many other things, proving themselves to be nothing more than lap dogs for the Democratic Party.

Vice President Kamala Harris, who once falsely claimed DeSantis had banned teaching about slavery entirely, started the latest round of mendacious attacks on DeSantis with a speech in Indiana in which she falsely claimed, “In the state of Florida, they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery.”

Instead of reading what the standards actually say and comparing that with the truth, the liberal media parroted Harris’s grotesque deliberate deception. "New Florida standards teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery,” blared NBC News. “New Florida teaching standards say African Americans received some personal benefit from slavery,” read Politico. The Washington Post editorial board even weighed in with, “DeSantis seeks to whitewash slavery in Florida curriculum.”