Don't say the Press Doesn't Do Its Job

[silverscreenselect]

I'm glad we can put to rest these scurrilous rumors.

AP Declares That 'JD Vance Did Not Have Sex With A Couch' In Fact Check

A mysterious Associated Press story tried to set the record straight about social media rumors that Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) once had coitus with a sofa.
Someone at the wire service fact-checked the claim and declared in a headline on Wednesday: “No, JD Vance did not have sex with a couch.” The oddly blunt headline was screen-captured by MeidasTouch co-founder Ben Meiselas and others, but was no longer on the AP’s site by Thursday morning.

A representative for the AP spoke to Semafor reporter Max Tani, who reports that the initial story “didn’t go through the wire service’s standard editing process,” and that the organization was “looking into” how the piece even got published.

The wild assertions originally sprang from people on X (formerly Twitter) claiming that Vance, now the running mate of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, wrote in his memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” that he simulated the act with a rubber glove sandwiched between a set of couch cushions as a young man. “You have only been a Senator for 18 months, you are NOT qualified to be @VP plus you depravely humped a couch and wrote about it in your book!” a supporter of Vice President Kamala Harris, who is poised to become the Democratic presidential nominee, wrote on X.

I'm glad we can now definitely say J.D. did not commit unnatural acts with a couch. On the other hand, there is this popular poem in Ohio:

Sheep are cute, sheep are cute,
sheep are soft and curly
Whenever J.D. comes to town,
the sheep look kinda worried...

[jarnon]

With this topic and the pronunciation one, the Bored has entered the silly season that’s normal at this time in an election year. After the traumas of the past month, it’s a relief.

[jarnon]

Another silly season controversy, this time between Vance and his possible opponent Andy Beshear about Mountain Dew:

“Earlier in the week, the Republican vice-presidential nominee had said at a rally in Ohio that he’d had a Diet Mountain Dew that day and fully expected to be called a ‘racist’ because of it.

“Beshear, in a CNN interview, called the comment ‘weird’ and added: ‘Who drinks Diet Mountain Dew?’

“On Thursday he retreated — but only a little bit.

“‘Folks, I’ve been a person that when sometimes I’ve gone over the line, I’ve wanted to make sure that I set the record straight, so, I do owe an apology to Diet Mountain Dew,’ Beshear said.”

[flockofseagulls104]

Read the frickin book. It's chock full of sentences that can be pulled out of context, if that's all you're looking for. But nowadays there's a lot of shitheads that make their living doing just that. And they mostly live in bullshit world.