The media has done it again: fully supporting the Democrats while constantly sowing false controversy—see “Cat Lady” and “Arlington National Cemetery”—when it comes to Republicans. We’re used to this, but sometimes they go even further and misrepresent or even completely distort the positions and words of GOP politicians.
Take, for example, Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance’s comments on Thursday about the tragic school massacre in Georgia that left four people dead. Vance:
“I don’t like that’s a fact,” Vance said. “But if you’re a psychopath and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are easy targets. And we need to beef up security in our schools. We need to beef up security so that a psychopath who wants to come through the front door and kill a bunch of kids can’t do that.” [Emphasis mine.]
But here was the Associated Press headline on the event: JD Vance calls school shootings a “fact of life” and calls for more security.
They have now changed it and at the time of writing this article it says: JD Vance says he complains that school shootings are a “fact of life” and called for more security measures. Note the addition of the word “lawsuits.”
After more than 2.5 million people saw the egregiously misleading headline against JD Vance, the AP deleted its post
Around 70% of people only read the headline when consuming news online. https://t.co/R68aEjwDhu pic.twitter.com/4ep3xDSOli
– Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) 6 September 2024
You could now accuse me of splitting hairs and say that the AP correctly reported some of the words Vance actually said. But I would tell you that the few words they left out completely change the meaning of his remarks and make it seem like he’s just a cold-hearted Republican MAGA monster who’s simply gotten used to school shootings and doesn’t care all that much.
He not only said the opposite –“I don’t like that this is a fact” – but he offered concrete solutions to tackle this insidious problem: making schools safer.
🚨New: The AP has officially deleted a tweet that intentionally misquoted JD Vance and portrayed the statement about school shootings as a “fact of life.”
Vance said, “I don’t like that this is a fact, but if you’re a psychopath and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are easy targets.” pic.twitter.com/5cZgb96ekY
— The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) 6 September 2024
These things may be subtle — unlike the media obsession with the Russia, Russia, Russia lies or the “very fine people” hoax — but they are not accidental. If you don’t believe me, ask yourself a question: When was the last time you saw a Democrat make one of these “mistakes”? If your answer is “never,” you are not alone.
Do you really think that CNN headline was an “accident”?
Network without shame: CNN originally reported that the murdered Hamas hostage had “died,” but did not mention how
Kamala Harris wasted no time in getting involved in the campaign, and the Harris-Waltz campaign team issued a duplicitous statement Thursday night that further cemented the dishonesty of Vance’s actual statement:
Our response to JD Vance calling school shootings a “fact of life” https://t.co/8OfUFHHzaL pic.twitter.com/rFFF3i4qa2
— KamalaHQ (@KamalaHQ) 6 September 2024
Disgusting.
They have completely thrown any semblance of straightforward discourse out the window. We’ll probably see a lot more of this as we race headlong into the election, but RedState, our readers, and everyone else must continue to call this what it really is: a pack of lies.
