Before deleting the original article and submitting a poor, semi-updated edition following backlash, the Associated Propaganda intentionally misquoted vice presidential candidate J. D. Vance. By then, however, the AP’s abuse of a catastrophic horror had safely created grist for Vice President Kamala Harris ‘ activities.
Vance decried the dangerous class shooting in Georgia that occurred on Wednesday while speaking in Arizona on Thursday.
” We have to be prepared for it if these psychos are going after our children,” Vance said. The reality we live in is what we do not have to like, but it is real. We’ve got to deal with it”.
” I do n’t like that this is a fact of life”, Vance continued. However, if you are a lunatic and want to create articles, you are aware that our schools are easy targets. Additionally, we must increase safety so that if a psycho wants to break through the front door and remove a group of kids, they are unable to do so.
However, the AP misled the public by using a quotation from Vance to misrepresent what he really said.
“JD Vance says school shootings are a ‘ fact of life,’ calling for better surveillance”, the original article on X said, with a website to Jonathan J. Cooper’s horrible “reporting”.
Of course, that was n’t what Vance actually said — it was just what the media wished he had said, so they printed it anyway.
Eventually, the post was deleted in favor of a new title and title.
The new article read, “JD Vance laments that school shootings are a “fact of life” and that the United States needs to strengthen security to stop more carnage like the one that occurred in Georgia this week, which left four people dead.
The AP claimed that the new article “replaces a previous article that was deleted to give context to the limited offer from Vance.”
The release, according to The Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway, is an “interesting way to say that we purposefully edited his offer and just deleted the tweet when we were called out for our ugly advertising.”
But by the day the AP was shamed into their mea culpa answer, their initial, false post had racked up more than 2.5 million views. The false statement had already been used by Vice President Kamala Harris for promotion purposes.
” Yesterday, Vice President Harris said ‘ it does n’t have to be this way’ in response to another senseless school shooting. Both Donald Trump and JD Vance believe that school shootings are a “fact of living” and that we must “get over it.”
But a misinformation press’s primary goal is to achieve this. Cooper and the AP used the horror of two dead babies and two instructors to make election fodder for Harris, not just by misquoting Vance or tweeting the incorrect phrase.
Vance’s director, William Martin, told The Federalist the AP has much lost any trust.
” This is yet another instance of the fake news media blatantly misrepresenting a Democratic official.” Sen. Vance’s statement was completely untrue, according to the Associated Press. The AP lost any and all trust years back because they will stay about anything to support the Democrats, according to Martin.
The Federalist’s Brianna Lyman is a journalist for elections. With a diploma in International Political Economy, Brianna received her diploma from Fordham University. Her job has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Observe Brianna on X: @briannalyman2
