Shame on the Associated Press. Well, we’d shame them if they had shame. But they’re incapable of it.
Here’s the post the put up last night, which they deleted:
As many users pointed out, that’s not what Vance said.
The full quote is: “I don’t like that this is a fact of life.”
This is a really misleading headline and Tweet. AP should really change it. https://t.co/VAnwOaEzYe
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) September 6, 2024
It was intentionally misleading.
The full quote: “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.”
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) September 6, 2024
And Vance isn’t wrong.
After getting ratioed into oblivion and having several pending Community Notes, the AP deleted that post and issued a correction:
JD Vance says he laments that school shootings are a “fact of life” and says the U.S. needs to harden security to prevent more carnage like the shooting this week that left four dead in Georgia.https://t.co/mdz0617PDl
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 6, 2024
But the damage was done:
But the point of it is to mislead…
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