A venture into the spin room saw Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance expertly cut to the heart of the story about migrants eating pets after it was labeled as “something that’s not true.”
“…the media didn’t care…until we turned it into a meme about cats.”
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As the Democratic Party and corporate media have repeatedly behaved as though George Orwell’s “1984” were a reference guide, any and all means have been employed to distract, deflect, and outright ignore image-tarnishing narratives they’d rather see memory-holed.
After busing illegal aliens to so-called “sanctuary cities” across the nation forced coverage of the open border crisis, former President Donald Trump’s running mate zinged CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on the latest extreme it took for talking heads to recognize that a mass influx of a culturally disparate group had brought with it serious consequences.
Near the end of their discussion on the debate, Collins brought up how the president had said regarding the problems in Springfield, Ohio, “The people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in our country. And it’s a shame.”
“Trump just amplified it to tens of millions of people who are watching. Why push something that’s not true?” she asked.
Pushing back, the senator asserted, “Well, first of all, city officials have not said it’s not true. They’ve said they don’t have all the evidence.”
When she tried to counter, “They said they have no evidence,” Vance continued, “We’ve heard from a number of constituents on the ground, Kaitlan, who, both firsthand and secondhand reports, [are] saying this stuff is happening.”
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“So they very clearly, meaning the people on the ground dealing with this, think that it is happening,” he went on, steering the matter back to the bigger issue. “I think that it’s important for journalists to actually get on the ground and cover this stuff for themselves when you have a lot of people saying, ‘My pets are being abducted,’ or ‘Geese at the city pond are being abducted and slaughtered right in front of us,’ this is crazy stuff.”
“And again, whether those exact rumors turn out to be mostly true, somewhat true, whatever the case may be, Kaitlan, this town has been ravaged by 20,000 migrants coming in; healthcare costs are up; housing costs are up; communicable diseases like HIV and TB have skyrocketed in this small Ohio town. This is what Kamala Harris’ border policies have done and I think it’s interesting, Kaitlan,” Vance said before nuking the cookie-cutter coverage that treated the problem as mere conspiracy theory, “that the media didn’t care about the carnage brought by these policies until we turned it into a meme about cats.”
Prior to their exchange, the vice-presidential hopeful had brought up similar points while also reminding that what was also confirmed was, “That a child was murdered by a Haitian migrant who had no right to be here,” while linking to Harris boasting about amnesty for tens of thousands of Haitian migrants who’d been granted Temporary Protected Status.
Vance was referring to 11-year-old Aiden Clark who had been killed when a car veered into oncoming traffic, causing the school bus he was riding in to crash, ejecting him and injuring other children. The alleged driver had been reported to be Haitian national Hermanio Joseph who’d entered the country illegally in Aug. 2022 and the tragedy preceded Springfield’s launch of an investigation into the influx of migrants with an Immigrant Accountability Response Team.
Still, Collins tried to temper the harsh realities courtesy of the border czar with inane hyperbole, “I mean, if someone calls your office and says they saw Bigfoot, that doesn’t mean they saw Bigfoot. You have a sense of responsibility as a running mate, and he certainly does as the candidate, to not promote false information, right?”
“But, Kaitlan, it’s a totally fair point, but nobody’s calling my office and saying that they saw Bigfoot. What they’re calling and saying is, ‘We’re seeing migrants kidnap our dogs and cats, and city officials aren’t doing anything about it,'” the senator noted before reminding the media “has a responsibility to actually take people seriously when they say their lives have been ruined by this migrant crisis.”
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