Democrats’ media allies are doing everything they can to stop Donald Trump and J.D. Vance from being elected.
It’s clear that most media outlets are giving Kamala Harris a pass while holding Republicans to a far different standard.
But now the Associated Press is cowering in shame after being exposed for this massive character assassination of J.D. Vance.
Associated Press intentionally lies about Vance quote on school shooting
Every American agrees that the recent mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia was a horrific tragedy.
But the Associated Press decided to make former President Donald Trump’s running mate, Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH), look like a villain after he denounced the shooting publicly.
Vance was speaking at a rally in Phoenix and said he didn’t like the fact that school shootings have now become a “fact of life,” while also calling for better security for government schools.
“If these psychos are going to go after our kids, we’ve got to be prepared for it. We don’t have to like the reality that we live in, but it is the reality we live in. We’ve got to deal with it,” said Vance.
When a self-proclaimed “journalist” asked Vance what the nation could do to stop the spate of school shootings, he said stronger security would be a good place to start.
Vance replied, “I don’t like that this is a fact of life. But if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets. And we have got to bolster security at our schools. We’ve got to bolster security so if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children, they’re not able.”
However, instead of reporting the quote in its real context, the AP decided to tell the country that Vance simply called these awful shootings a “fact of life,” as if he was telling parents to just get over it.
The media outlet completely left out the rest of his quote, thereby making Vance look like a cold and uncaring candidate.
AP backpedals after backlash
The AP faced significant backlash after the headline went viral and eventually had to correct it.
The original headline read, “JD Vance says he laments that school shootings are a ‘fact of life.’”
The AP later changed it and wrote on X, “The post replaces an earlier post that was deleted to add context to the partial quote from Vance.”
This post replaces an earlier post that was deleted to add context to the partial quote from Vance.
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 6, 2024
Vance spokesperson William Martin made a statement regarding the issue, saying, “This is yet another case of the fake news media brazenly lying about a Republican politician. Senator Vance said exactly the opposite of what the Associated Press claimed.”
Martin also said that it should “come as no surprise that the AP lost any all credibility it had years ago because they will lie about literally anything in order [to] prop up the Democrats.”
“Meanwhile, Kamala Harris has called for all police officers to be removed from schools, putting children all over America at risk. It’s yet another example of how Kamala Harris’s weak, failed, and dangerously liberal agenda makes her unfit for office,” he concluded.
