Who is J. D. Vance? Since former president Donald Trump announced that Vance, a bestselling author and young senator from Ohio, may be his running mate in the 2024 presidential election, millions of Americans have been asking this question. Unfortunately, the majority of prominent media sources available to our nation’s electorate have already proven themselves unable ( or unwilling ) to answer it.
Like dishonesty is embarrassing because our established media have abandoned their objective in the context of the probable future vice president of the nation and, if history is our subject, the likely future president.
Post More Interested in Vance’s Companions Than His Elections
Given its location in the capital of our nation and its history ( or notoriety ) of reporting on the most recent political scandals and scoops, The Washington Post claims to be the most significant print publication in the country for election-related news. The Post focused its news coverage on unfavorable ( if not also bizarre ) stories about the sitting senator days after Vance was announced as the Republican vice-presidential candidate.
In one of his neighbors, who are overwhelmingly liberal in Northern Virginia, one of Vance’s neighbors reportedly does n’t like him ( which is surprising given that the Washington metropolitan area has twice as many Democrats as Republicans ). Another noted that many people today despise Vance because of his political views after reading his 2016 bestseller Hillbilly Elegy. But another reported that a dozen far-right crazies have criticized Vance for marrying a lady of South-Asian heritage or, otherwise, noted Vance’s earlier critiques of Trump. One also alleged that he’s an “election-denier” ( part and parcel of the Post’s formally acknowledged willingness to forgo independence in its reports monitoring ).
In vain may Post users find little, if any, reporting on Vance’s career in the Senate, during which time he co-sponsored costs with Democrat Sens. Without Elizabeth Warren and Richard Warnock, who are his most recent congressional committee projects, which may indicate his level of expertise in the legislative branch. Instead, you’ll find out that he pushed for dozens of ambassador votes because of concerns about transgender ideology and hiring. This is as if anyone else worries about the caliber and frequency of Department of State posts besides those with foreign policy wonks or a dozen provincial employees. Though I subscribe to the Post, I had to run a search within its site to find a second article detailing Vance’s posts on such subjects as the business, pregnancy, immigration, and Ukraine.
Media’s Vance Coverage Proves Their Fraud
Not that The Washington Post is particularly distinctive. CNN’s” Fast Facts” offers no information on Vance’s political positions — though, once again, you’ll learn he was once critical of Trump (are n’t people allowed to change their political opinions? ). Another CNN article examines Vance’s positions in light of his memoir, as if a 2016 book published before he even entered politics was the best resource on the subject. Additionally, you’ll learn from CNN that Vance is said to be keen on the solution while additional European countries are not. Does CNN believe that Russians or Europeans should cast ballots in our national election?
Or consider this: Work a search in Google for J. D. Vance, visit “news”, and see what you get. When I wrote about Vance’s wife on July 22, the top stories included additional reporting on far-right candidates who attacked him, and numerous op-eds claiming that he is a hillbilly poser who does n’t represent the white working-class or Appalachia. According to The Atlantic,”‘ Hillbilly ‘ People Will Get No Support From J. D. Vance”, and he is whole of “hillbilly mistakes”. ( I suppose we ought to have anticipated elitist mockery of a man who would identify as a victim using offensive slang )
Like Most Leaders, Media Are Failing in Their Jobs
” So what”? you may response to the public’s not-exactly-surprising communist flat. Do we expect anything else in 2024 given that the left-wing media only provides crucial coverage of a Republican legislator who is running for the second-highest office in the country? The answer is no, we should not expect fairness from the likes of MSNBC or The New York Times for those who have been paying attention to a media realm that has very gladly shed its attempts to get impartial — Republicans comprising less than 5 % of journalists.
However, communist corporate media’s protection of J. D. Vance indicates something even more devastating than its apparent, long-documented social bias. American voters know that media in the last generation have undergone a” siloing”: Left-leaning voters watch CNN or” The Big Three” ( ABC, NBC, CBS ), and right-leaning voters watch Fox News. Republicans read The Wall Street Journal while Democrats read The Washington Post and The New York Times.
Although voters are now accustomed to anticipating bias in media coverage, one could at least hope that voters of all political viewpoints would be able to learn a few fundamental facts about the people who are on both national cards, including, most important, what political jobs those candidates hold and why.
Finding such information now necessitates sifting through pages ( or hours ) of biased, politically motivated content that is cynically presented as straight factual reporting, an indictment on a fourth estate that has become embarrassingly compromised by ideology.
Who is J. D. Vance? Do n’t bother asking legacy media — even if they knew, they would n’t tell you. Much better, in their view, to force-feed audiences on buzzwords ( e. g., “election-denier”, “anti-immigrant”,” white nationalist” ) aimed at ruining the Ohio senator’s reputation by November. Fortunately, fewer and fewer Americans are fooled by such literary trickery.
However, as citizens of a free state, we should expect more from our educated, professional school, who, whatever their private political opinions, are supposed to get motivated by a nationalist, sincere sense of service to all American citizens. As the framers understood, the creation, because of its position of relative power, is supposed to fervently industry to assist and faithfully talk with the electorate in all its diversity, lest it be perceived by that electorate as a despotic oligarchy. And if you are familiar with much of the vice presidential candidate J. D. Vance, you would be aware that these motivations are fundamental to his meteoric entry into public service.
Casey Chalk is a senior contributor to The Federalist and a columnist for The New Oxford Review. He has a bachelor’s in history and master’s in teaching from the University of Virginia and a master’s in theology from Christendom College. The Persecuted: True Stories of Courageous Christians Living Their Faith in Muslim Lands is his book.
