Nolte: Far-Left AP Seeks to Humiliate JD Vance with ‘Couch Sex’ Fact CheckJohn Nolte 25 Jul 2024
The Associated Press (AP), a far-left propaganda outlet that spreads misinformation and conspiracy theories, published a “fact check” with the obvious hope of spreading an absurd smear about Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance.
The Wednesday headline read: “No, JD Vance did not have sex with a couch”
CLAIM: Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance wrote in his 2016 memoir about having sex with a couch.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Vance does not write about performing such an act in his bestselling book. A searchable PDF of the memoir includes 10 mentions of the word “couch” or “couches,” none of which are related to accounts of salacious escapades. Some social media users have claimed the story appears on pages 179 to 181, where Vance actually writes about his first days as a freshman at The Ohio State University.
This is how devious the AP is…
The fact check wasn’t based on a false claim made by a prominent Democrat or someone in the media, so there was no valid reason for the AP to blow a false rumor up into a high-profile AP fact check. But the AP wants this false rumor out there. It wants to blow it up. The AP understands that not everyone will read the fact check and that once the rumor is out there, it’s out there.
This indefensible fact check was nothing less than a fig leaf to use the power of the AP to give a humiliating lie rocket fuel. You see, there was nothing to debunk, really. But in order to justify spotlighting a lie, the AP used a couple of xweets written by a couple of nobodies.
The first xweet said, “Somebody please explain to me how JD Vance, who wrote about humping a couch and has only been a Senator for barely TWO f—— years, thinks he has the right to criticize Kamala Harris’ qualifications.”
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