Surprise: Media Takes Vance’s Words Out of Context

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Portraying Vance as Heartless

What would we voters do without the media? As Mark Caputo notes at Bulwark, the reporting is not merely “negative” but “reliably”.

In the latest horrific national partisan kerfuffle, the Associated Press grossly perve

rted the Ohio senator’s response to a tragic school shooting in Georgia, where four people were murdered. 

AP headline:

“JD Vance says school shootings are a ‘fact of life,’ calls for better security.” 

The Hill:

“JD Vance calls for tightened school security, calls school shootings a ‘fact of life.’” 

The WAPO:

“JD Vance calls the reality of school shootings a bleak ‘fact of life.’”

Instead, What JD Vance Said: 

I don’t like to admit this. 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.

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.” 

Becket Adams in NRO defends the GOP VP nominee:

“Vance’s meaning was clear,” maintains Mr. Adams.

It was clear what he said, what he meant, and what he intended to communicate to his audience. There was nothing untoward, cold, or callous about his remarks.

… the initial headlines, with the AP first out of the gate, clearly suggest a heartless and tone-deaf response. Partisan operatives all too eager for an anti-Vance hit piece seemed to think so.

Clinton and Newsom Vying for 1^st Place

Mr. Adams wonders how the media could have screwed this up, especially since the initial headlines, with the AP first out of the gate, clearly suggest a heartless and tone-deaf response.

Partisan operatives all too eager for an anti-Vance hit piece seemed to think so.

Democratic officials from California governor Gavin Newsom to two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to the Harris campaign wasted no time in harshly condemning Vance for something he never said.

It’s almost as though this “mistake” was no mistake at all.

Few would disagree that better security steps are needed. The WSJ recommends that armed security guards or local police officers be on duty during the school day. Likewise, the paper notes and bag checks are a reasonable safeguard. Having these and other steps needed is indeed a tragedy for our country.

… near term, increased security and law enforcement are essential, and tragically so is holding parents responsible when their children kill with guns that shouldn’t be in their possession.