MSNBC still running with fake version of JD Vance school shooting remarks

After the Associated Press swerved to avoid community notes, MSNBC’s resident RINO plowed full steam ahead to further misrepresent Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance’s Apalachee High School tragedy reaction.

(Video: MSNBC)

The murder of four people, including two young teenagers, at a school in Georgia became campaign fodder for the left on top of the readily expected pivot to gun-grabbing. But, where the AP saw fit to delete a misleading headline regarding remarks from former President Donald Trump’s running mate, Michael Steele saw no issue taking Vance’s words out of context.

“Such a weak little man on this issue and a whole lot of them, but that — fact of life?” the former chair of the Republican National Committee said Saturday on MSNBC’s “The Weekend.”

The reaction directly followed the network airing a clip of Vance’s statement during a Phoenix, Arizona rally Thursday and even left host Symone Sanders-Townsend quickly interjecting, “That he said he didn’t like.”

Still, Steele persisted with his prepackaged punditry and added, “Such resignation, such resignation. You’re so weak you can’t even come up with a plan to deal with the killing of children and teachers?”

Of course, that too had been addressed in the senator’s comments as he had said, “Look, I don’t like this, I don’t like to admit this, 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. We’ve 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 to.”

“And again, as a parent, do I want my kids’ school to have additional security? No, of course I don’t. I don’t want my kids to go to school in a place where they feel like you’ve got to have additional security, but that is increasingly the reality that we live in,” added Vance.

Even the AP had included that point in their post on X that had been deleted when the outlet wrote, “JD Vance says school shootings are a ‘fact of life,’ calls for better security.”

Steele’s attack continued, “I mean, what the hell has happened to Republicans who worship and value the gun more than they do the lives of a six-year-old? It makes no sense to me. It’s really — you know, I get the Second Amendment, it ain’t going anywhere. It’s written. It’s on paper. We got it. We all get it. But, I’m sorry, you just don’t put it above the life of a child. And moms and dads are mourning and a vice presidential candidate, only thing he’s got to say is I just regret it’s a fact of life.”

While the vice presidential hopeful hadn’t appeared to respond to the talking head’s take on his remarks, he had fired back when Vice President Kamala Harris had attempted the same shameless effort as her personal X account had posted Thursday, “School shootings are not just a fact of life. It doesn’t have to be this way. We can take action to protect our children–and we will.”

In response, Vance wrote, “Kamala wants to take security out of our schools instead of protecting our children. Instead of addressing her own failures, she lies about what I said. More desperation from the biggest fraud in American politics.”

Kevin Haggerty

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