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JD Vance Humiliates ABC Host and NYT Reporter Mere Hours Apart: “Do You Hear Yourself?”

JD Vance.  I think just the mention of his name sends democrats into overload lately.  It’s one thing when you can expect expect someone to simply blow their top every time you get under their skin — it’s an easy win, and hard for them to recover legitimacy when that happens.

But it’s a completely different thing when the only time you get under a person’s skin is when you’re wrong, and the person knows exactly how you’re wrong, and proceeds to channel what little “under-the-skin” frustration you elicited into informing you with all the calm coolness of a 90’s Des’ree song what the reasonable logic of the situation actually is. (It’s titled “You Gotta Be”, and you’re welcome for getting that stuck in your head – it’s a good song!  Check it out if it doesn’t ring a bell – long live 90’s music!)

Less than 24 hours apart, during interactions with two different media outlets, JD Vance did exactly that.  First, watch this interaction with ABC News host Martha Raddatz:

Raddatz started off with the following line of questioning, trying to assert that President Trump had exaggerated the claim of Venezuelan gang activity taking over entire apartment complexes by force, according to Mediaite:

On ABC’s This Week, the Republican senator from Ohio fired back in response to a comment by Raddatz that only a “handful” of Aurora apartment complexes had seen Venezuelan gang activity.

Trump has been accused of overstating the dangers members of the gang Tren de Aragua posed to the city. At a rally in Aurora on Friday evening, Trump vowed to go after criminal migrants nationwide and to name the operation to send them to their native countries after the city in what he called “Operation Aurora.”

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“So, do you support Donald Trump making those claims that the Republican mayor says were grossly exaggerated and have hurt the city’s identity and sense of safety?” she asked. “I understand what you’re saying that some people left behind. But he’s making these statements that the mayor is flat-out disputing.”

Vance argued that Coffman’s claim there was an “exaggeration” meant there was some smoke to the fire. He and Raddatz then engaged in a tense discussion on the topic in the following exchange:

RADDATZ: Senator Vance, I’m going to stop you because I know exactly what happened. I’m going to stop you. The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes – apartment complexes and the mayor said our dedicated police officers have acted on those concerns. A handful of problems.

VANCE: Only, Martha, do you hear yourself? Only a handful of apartment complexes in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and Donald Trump is the problem and not Kamala Harris’s open border? Americans are so fed up with what’s going on and they have every right to be and I really find this exchange, Martha, sort of interesting because you seem to be more focused with nitpicking everything that Donald Trump has said rather than acknowledging that apartment complexes in the United States of America are being taken over by violent gangs. I worry so much more about that problem than anything else here. We’ve got to get American communities in a safe space again. And unfortunately, when you let people in by the millions, most of whom are unvetted, most of whom you don’t know who they really are, you’re going to have problems like this. Kamala Harris’ 94 executive orders that undid Donald Trump’s successful border policies, we knew this stuff would happen.

Raddatz attempted to jump in at that point, thinking Vance was finished.  He was not.

VANCE: They bragged about opening the border and now we have the consequences and we’re living with it. We can do so much better, but frankly, we’re not going to do better, Martha, unless Donald Trump calls this stuff out. I’m glad that he did.

RADDATZ: Okay. Let’s – let’s just – let’s just end that with they did not invade or take over the city as Donald Trump said. I want to move on to just –

VANCE: A few apartment complexes, no big deal.

The Trump Campaign and Vance wasted no time making sure the degree of “spin” being put on display by the Kamala-loyalist media wouldn’t be simply swept under the rug and forgotten about — as I’m sure they’d rather it be.

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Meanwhile, Vance was also carrying out a similar verbal slaughter of New York Times reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro.  She may have gone into the interview expecting to have the upper-hand, considering… well, she’s a journalist, of course.  And obviously she is therefore more educated, astute, logical, and simply knows more than a mere Republican politician — especially a MALE politician.

If even a fraction of that mentality constituted her expectancy of what was about to unfold, she was very wrong.  Check out this clip.  I’ll give her props for trying hard… but between trying hard and truth, one tends to win out.  Facts are stubborn.  Why do they always forget about that part?

Take a detour with me for a moment.  Walk with me to a place that lives inside JD Vance.  And through movie magic, picture who he is… through a clip portraying a moment in young JD Vance’s life:

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That’s the sort of REAL LIFE that JD Vance grew up getting a taste of at every turn.  He saw reality early, because it was there to smack him in the face at every turn.

Little wonder that every time one of these left-leaning members of the media in-crowd think they’re going to saunter themselves up to that country bumpkin Vance who obviously is nothing more than a man-splaining biggoted misogynistic narrow minded homophob… they get completely trounced and left dumbfounded by how skillfully JD Vance can cut to the quick of a concept – and rip you to shreds for your trouble, while he’s at it.

As Collin Rugg talked about in a post Saturday evening, Vance also pushed back against the anti-child narrative that has infiltrated the American mindset to a dangerous degree in recent years.

JD Vance calls the United States anti-child narrative ‘pathological,’ explains how U.S. culture is encouraging people not to have kids.

This is the best three minutes on declining birth rates, specifically in America, you will see all month.

Vance told a story from when he was on a train as a law student, observing a mother with her rowdy kids.

“She was being so patient, but then like everybody around her was also noticing the kids being misbehaved. And they were so angry…”

“I do think that there’s this pathological frustration with children that just is a new thing in American society. I think it’s very dark.”

“I’ve used this word sociopathic, like that I think is a very deranged idea. The idea that you shouldn’t have a family because of concerns over climate change doesn’t mean you can’t worry about climate change.”

“I think that is a bizarre way of thinking about the future not to have kids because of concerns over climate change.”

“I think the more bizarre thing is our leadership who encourages young women and frankly young men to think about it that way.”

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At the end of the day, I doubt either Martha Raddatz or Lulu Garcia-Navarro were swayed from their perspectives.  But that doesn’t mean such interactions are without worth.

We don’t tend to consider high-profile interviews when we think of the quote by Edmund Burke, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”  And I do not mean to infer that either of these news media personalities are evil.

But there IS an evil that resides at the foundational level of their perspectives on many issues.  It is not the “type” of evil we tend to call… evil.  It stems simply from what the Bible would call the “wisdom of the world”.  That is, pragmatism; which has it’s place.

But it’s place is firmly below PRINCIPLE.  Pragmatism without principle… is simply ungodly humanism.  It is secularism.  It is progressive relativism.  And it is EVIL.  No — interactions like what JD Vance had with these two media personalities is not at all without worth; far from it.

If the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing, then the least a good man can do is open his mouth and stand for what is true.  And that can be worth an awful lot, indeed.


 

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