In yet the latest example of media bias, the Associated Press published a headline on Thursday about Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance but quickly deleted it.
The headline was based on a partial quote from comments Vance had made at a rally in Phoenix, Arizona, that same day. The comments were not only badly taken out of context but were clearly intended to slight former President Donald Trump’s running mate, suggesting he has an extreme callousness towards school shootings.
The headline read: “JD Vance says school shootings are a ‘fact of life,’ calls for better security.”
The AP deleted their trash tweet about @JDVance after it was about to receive a nuclear community note.
They’ve since reposted it here: pic.twitter.com/w35o8Fw8Du
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) September 6, 2024
However, Vance never said that school shootings were “a fact of life.” He actually used that expression in reference to explaining that it was a fact that “psychos” could make headlines by targeting “soft targets,” such as schools.
Here is an excerpt of the relevant part of Vance’s address, including the comment as it appeared in its original context:
“What is going to solve this problem? And I really do believe this is, look, I, I don’t like this. I don’t like to admit this. I don’t like that this is a fact of life, but if you’re … 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 so that a person who walks through the front door … we’ve got to bolster security so that if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children, they’re not able to.”
Fox News reports on the response from Team Vance to the AP’s “brazenly lying” about what he said at the rally in Phoenix. Here’s the start of the story:
A spokesman for JD Vance blasted the Associated Press for publishing a headline Thursday that implied the Republican vice presidential candidate had dismissed school shootings as a “fact of life.”
In an exclusive comment to Fox News Digital, Vance spokesperson William Martin attacked the AP.
“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. It should come as no surprise that the AP lost any and all credibility it had years ago, because they will lie about literally anything in order 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,” Martin said.
At a rally in Phoenix, Vance remarked on the recent mass shooting that took place at Apalachee High School in Barrow County, Georgia on Wednesday.