The Associated Propaganda — I mean, Associated Press (AP) — deliberately misquoted vice presidential hopeful J.D. Vance on Thursday before deleting the original post and publishing a weak, semi-updated version following backlash. By then, however, the AP’s exploitation of a devastating tragedy had successfully created fodder for Vice President Kamala Harris’ operations.
Speaking in Arizona on Thursday, Vance decried the deadly school shooting in Georgia that took place on Wednesday.
“If these psychos are going to go after our kids we’ve got to be prepared for it,” Vance said. “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.”
“I don’t like that this is a fact of life,” Vance continued. “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 so if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children they’re not able.”
But the AP used a snippet of Vance’s quote to distort what he actually said and mislead the public.
“JD Vance says school shootings are a ‘fact of life,’ calls for better security,” the original post on X said, with a link to Jonathan J. Cooper’s abysmal “reporting.”
Of course, that wasn’t what Vance actually said — it was just what the media wished he had said, so they printed it anyway.
The post was later
