The legacy media has largely grappled with facts about Tuesday’s vice presidential debate between Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz – namely, that Walz got his ass kicked quite politely by Vance. But some on the far left – the crazy left, in fact – are still trying to do damage control. And in the media, aside from publications like Mother Jones or The Nation, they’re not much further to the left than the crew from “The View.”
Yes, they rooted for Team Kamala Harris reluctant to acknowledge the obvious:
“The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said Wednesday that Gov. Tim Walz “dropped the ball” during the show Vice President Debate by failing to fact check Senator JD Vance.
“I honestly thought Tim Walz had the rockier night from a performance and delivery perspective,” Griffin said, although he argued that Vance’s difficulty answering a question about Jan. 6 at the end of the debate was the most painful part of the evening was.
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The “rockier night”? If that’s not the understatement of the year, it will do until a better one comes along. This wasn’t a rocky night; JD Vance went off on Tim Walz with one of the most cheerful and polite insults ever since presidential and vice presidential debates became commonplace. Vance was informed, he was focused, and he won the debate in every way – content, presentation, style – in every objective way.
Not even “The View” can deny that; You also can’t deny that Tim Walz wasn’t awake at the moment. Griffin continued:
I think JD Vance was strategic about making “Midwestern nice” and disarming Tim Walz. And Tim Walz took the bait so he wasn’t in fight mode. There were some fact checks he could have done and he dropped the ball on them.
By “fact checks,” Griffin, of course, means “talking points,” because the only clear factual statement Tim Walz made in this entire debacle was the observation that he was sometimes “a moron.” You can’t argue with that.
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But you can count on “The View” co-hosts to do this shoot:
Griffin added, “I thought Josh Shapiro or Pete Buttigieg would have wiped the floor with JD Vance.”
However, she also said that Vance wasn’t being genuine and the other co-hosts agreed.
“I found moments where I thought, ‘Wow, I really want to believe that he’s showing compassion and compassion for Walz, but I just remember the guy who insulted cat ladies,'” Griffin said.
Not genuine? One of JD Vance’s main advantages is that he is genuine; he is real. JD Vance grew up in a petite community in the Upper Midwest, just as I grew up in a petite community in the Upper Midwest. I know what kind of person JD Vance is because I grew up around people like him. I know the type of family JD Vance comes from because I knew many families who suffered from similar problems that Vance describes from his mother and grandparents.
JD Vance is real, and that just made Tim Walz look even more phony. And at the top of the wrong bunch is Tim Walz’s would-be boss, Kamala Harris.
I suppose we can give Griffin a little credit for admitting the painfully obvious: that Tim Walz was eliminated on Tuesday. But in this last statement she returned to form; And just watch, the show will be back to calling JD Vance all sorts of names within hours of admission while praising the Harris/Walz ticket. It’s what they do.
