The liberal media were so desperate to make the Democratic Party’s ‘J.D. Vance is weird’ narrative stick, that they’re now claiming it’s controversial for the Senator from Ohio, who was raised by his grandmother, to acknowledge the fact that [checks notes] it’s a good thing for children to know and build a relationship with their grandparents. That was the claim made by NBC senior Capitol Hill correspondent Garrett Haake during Thursday’s edition of Today.
Amid their reporting on the state of the 2024 presidential race, Haake announced that Vance was “once again in spotlight for his past comments about women.” As Haake made that pronouncement, the on-screen headline read: “growing backlash over Vance’s comments.”
Given how the liberal media pounced on Vance’s “childless cat ladies” comment and the promise of “backlash”, one would think the comment would have to be something pretty divisive.
Despite all that, Haake admitted that while appearing on The Portal podcast in 2020, Vance “discusse[d] the positive roles of grandparents in children's lives” and how it was “drawing new scrutiny.”
NBC throws shade at Vance for saying it's a good thing for children to know their grandparents.
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) August 15, 2024
NBC warns he's "again in spotlight for his past comments about women," but admits Vance "discusses the positive roles of grandparents in children's lives" in the audio. pic.twitter.com/1tQ407FwuN
The soundbite they cherry-picked wasn’t even controversial:
VANCE: They spoil them, all the classic stuff that grandparents do to grandchild, but it makes him a much better human being to have exposure to his grandparents. And the evidence of this, on the way, is super clear.
ERIC WEINSTEIN (host): That's the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female –
VANCE: Yes.
WEINSTEIN: - in theory. Let me ask you a question, not knowing the answer.
VANCE: Please.
WEINSTEIN: When your child was born, did your in-laws, and particularly your mother-in-law show up in some huge way?
VANCE: She lived with us for a year.
WEINSTEIN: Right.
VANCE: So, you know –
WEINSTEIN: I didn't know an answer for that, so that's a weird, unadvertised feature of marrying an India woman.
VANCE (stuttering): Yeah, I –
[Audio abruptly ends and newscasts cuts back to live]
NBC showed neither the purported “backlash” nor “scrutiny” they claimed there was. It was such a non-story that both ABC and CBS’s morning newscasts didn’t think it was worth any air-time at all.
In fact, this was another example of NBC betraying their façade of objective news organization and showing they were driving by the same radical left-wing politics of MSNBC.
The supposed controversy was originally dug up by a progressive talk radio station out of Chicago, WCPT 820. “Through a progressive lens, our reporters and hosts shine a light on the issues most important to those who make up the diverse communities across the Midwest,” their website says.
The story was then picked up by the likes of left-wing Salon and The Huffington Post. The Salon article tried to tar and feather Vance for something that didn’t even come out of his mouth. “In resurfaced clip, JD Vance co-signs idea that ‘postmenopausal females’ exist to help raise kids,” their stretch of a headline declared.
Salon took issue with how Vance “seemingly endorsed the idea that ‘post-menopausal females’ exist to help parents raise children” and for “expressing his gratitude to his mother-in-law” for helping the family for a year after their first son was born.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
NBC’s Today
August 15, 2024
7:09:55 a.m. Eastern(…)
GARRETT HAAKE: Trump's running mate, J.D. Vance, once again in spotlight for his past comments about women. This 2020 podcast interview in which he discusses the positive roles of grandparents in children's lives drawing new scrutiny.
SEN. J.D. VANCE (R-OH): They spoil them, all the classic stuff that grandparents do to grandchild, but it makes him a much better human being to have exposure to his grandparents. And the evidence of this, on the way, is super clear.
ERIC WEINSTEIN: That's the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female –
VANCE: Yes.
WEINSTEIN: - in theory. Let me ask you a question, not knowing the answer.
VANCE: Please.
WEINSTEIN: When your child was born, did your in-laws, and particularly your mother-in-law show up in some huge way?
VANCE: She lived with us for a year.
WEINSTEIN: Right.
VANCE: So, you know –
WEINSTEIN: I didn't know an answer for that, so that's a weird, unadvertised feature of marrying an India woman.
VANCE (stuttering): Yeah, I –
[Audio abruptly ends and newscasts cuts back to live]
(…)
