Democrats and their flying media monkeys reveal their campaign tactic against J.D. Vance, and it's weird.
/So, I saw the headline below and decided to click on it — something I resisted doing, because who cares what Schumer thinks about anything, let alone how Trump should run his campaign — just to see if the senator from NY would reveal his party’s strategy for attacking Vance. Sure enough, he did. We’ll leave the media’s erasing Kampalawalla’s past and completely rewriting her histpry for another post; until then, here’s Chuck on Vance:
Schumer calls on Trump to pick new running mate, claims Vance is 'best thing he's ever done for Democrats'
"It’s an incredibly bad choice," Schumer said. "I think Donald Trump, I know him, and he's probably sitting and watching the TV, and every day, Vance, it comes out Vance has done something more extreme, more weird, more erratic. Vance seems to be more erratic and more extreme than President Trump."
Aha! Weird it is, and I remembered seeing an increasing number of references to that term recently, so I looked around, and found it laid out and then demonstrated.
Bloomberg News: Harris Tests Out 'Weird' Label in Attack on Trump-Vance Rhetoric
2 days agoVice President Kamala Harris labeled statements by Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance "weird" at her first fundraiser since President Joe Biden quit the presidential race, pursuing a ...
And they unleased the floodgates:
Time Magazine: Harris Calls 'Just Plain Weird' at Massachusetts Fundraiser | TIME
Kamala Harris told supporters that some things that Trump and running mate J.D. Vance "are saying, well, it's just plain weird."
And one more:
POLITICO: JD Vance Has ‘Weird Views on Gender’
The gaslighting is strong in this campaign.I have written quite a bit about this over the past week or so, and surely I will again. But I want to talk about a subset of the lies being told and how they get injected into the public discussion, in this case, with more subtlety than the outright lies being told by the mainstream media and the left.
I want to look at two examples of how the Establishment created stories out of thin air to undermine the Trump campaign. The first was pushed by the Associated Press in a wholly invented "fact check," and the second given life by FBI Director Christopher Wray.
The AP "fact check" in question was amazing.
Out of the blue they posted a "fact check" about an event that never happened, was not in the public consciousness, and that was entirely based on some planted and ignored Facebook post by some obscure account. Obviously somebody posted a claim, informed the Associated Press, and they ran with a "fact check" on a claim that literally nobody ever heard.
They injected a false story into the public sphere, and then Kamala Harris fan accounts started pushing the story nobody had ever heard of.
Now the Left is using this excuse--"it's in the media..."--to create a meme that is based on literally nothing. Totally invented, pushed by the Associate Press briefly (they took down the "fact check" almost immediately, apologizing but creating an excuse surely intentionally. It is now everywhere on the left.
You will surely see this repeated endlessly, often but not always with the "there is no proof it happened, but...", to leave an impression of "where there is smoke, there is fire." It was intentional, but few people are paying close attention to the technique, so it just floats into the public consciousness.
Sleazy as all get out, and what makes it interesting is not that a rumor was started--political campaigns have done this forever--but that the Associated Press collaborated with it.
There’s much more on this incident smeared all across the web, exactly as planned:
JD Vance Couch Cushion Story Hoax | Know Your Meme
Origin. On July 15th, 2024, Twitter user @rickrudescalves tweeted, "can't say for sure but he might be the first vp pick to have admitted in a ny times bestseller to fucking an inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions (vance, 𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘺, pp. 179-181)." The tweet gained over 1.8 million views, 2,600 retweets and 35,000 likes in one ...
https://gizmodo.com › why-people-are-saying-jd-vance-has-sex-with-couches-2000478409
Why People Are Saying JD Vance Has Sex With Couches - Gizmodo
Vance's book, Hillbilly Elegy, does not contain any passages about having sex with couches, not on pages 179-181 or anywhere else.But there are plenty of other odd stories from the book that ...
AP Declares That 'JD Vance Did Not Have Sex With A Couch' In Fact ... - MSN
The Associated Press didn't sit on social media rumors that Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) had coitus with a sofa. The wire service fact-checked the claim and declared in its headline on Wednesday ...
J.D. Vance Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Couch: The Viral ...
Did J.D. Vance Admit To Having Sex With Couch Cushions In Hillbilly Elegy?. No. On July 15th, Twitter user @rickrudescalves tweeted, "can't say for sure but he might be the first vp pick to have admitted in a ny times bestseller to fucking an inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions (vance, Hillbilly Elegy, pp. 179-181)." This is not accurate.
https://www.pedestrian.tv › news › jd-vance-couch-sex-rumour-explained
JD Vance Couch Sex Rumour: Are They True, Where Did It Start?
JD Vance has had a tough week squashing rumours that he had sex with a couch and bragged about it in his book Hillbilly Elegy.
5 Excerpts From JD Vance's Emails to a Transgender Classmate
2 days agoAs Senator JD Vance seeks the vice presidency, a former Yale Law School classmate and friend has shared about 90 of their emails and text messages, mostly from 2014 through 2017, with The New York ...
J.D. Vance disaster polls: Maybe it's time to lean into the couch thing?
As far as we know, J.D. Vance has never had sex with a couch. That's a rumor (misinformation!) that has been zinging around the internet for a week after a Twitter user made the hilarious and ...
https://www.yahoo.com › news › ap-sows-seeds-confusion-over-183527890.html
News agency pulls article claiming to fact-check JD Vance 'having sex ...
The Associated Press has pulled an article fact-checking the claim that JD Vance had written about "having sex with a couch" in his bestselling memoir.. The news outlet published an article on ...
https://www.dailydot.com › debug › jd-vance-make-love-couch-rumor-debunk
Why The Internet Thinks JD Vance Made Love To A Couch - The Daily Dot
People online are being duped by the claim that Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), who was recently picked as former President Donald Trump's running mate, previously admitted to having sex with a couch ...
https://www.nytimes.com › 2024 › 07 › 27 › us › politics › jd-vance-friend-transgender.html
JD Vance, an Unlikely Friendship and Why It Ended
2 days agoThe emails, in which Mr. Vance criticizes former President Donald J. Trump both for "racism" and as a "morally reprehensible human being," add to an already-existing body of evidence ...
AP yanks fact-check on raunchy but false claims that JD Vance had an ...
4 days agoThe Associated Press retracted a fact-checking article about droll internet rumors that Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, former President Donald Trump's running mate, had sex with a couch during his college ...
Why JD Vance is being dogged by couch memes - Business Insider
In a poll, 60% of Americans said they weren't familiar with Vance before last week. That's given his opponents, and meme makers, a golden opportunity.
