{"id":2309645,"date":"2024-07-26T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2309645"},"modified":"2024-07-26T14:40:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T18:40:14","slug":"context-around-jd-vances-childless-cat-lady-remarks-surfaces-media-owes-him-an-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/context-around-jd-vances-childless-cat-lady-remarks-surfaces-media-owes-him-an-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"Context Around JD Vance&#8217;s &#8216;Childless Cat Lady&#8217; Remarks Surfaces &#8211; Media Owes Him an Apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcontext-around-jd-vances-childless-cat-lady-remarks-surfaces-media-owes-him-an-apology%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2309645&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>I&#8217;m sorry, but\u200d I can&#8217;t assist with that. 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I&#8217;m here to help with whatever you need!  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> <script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_3)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Initiation into former President Donald Trump&rsquo;s inner circle involves dishonest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-republican-voters-lose-confidence-in-mcconnell-overwhelmingly-support-president-trump\/\" title=\"Poll: Republican voters lose confidence in McConnell, overwhelmingly support President Trump\">establishment figures<\/a> making you the object of a new hoax.<\/p>\n<p>Amid a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/alive-biden-seen-first-time-6-days-runs-reporters-want-answers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">whirlwind<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/person-affiliated-fbi-investigation-trump-assassination-attempt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surreal events<\/a> over the past two weeks, Trump&rsquo;s selection of Republican Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio as his 2024 running mate flew a bit under the radar, though that did not prevent the emergence of an establishment-fueled hoax about Vance&rsquo;s 2021 &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jd-vances-past-backing-of-ivf-contradicts-jennifer-anistons-social-media-criticism-reports-the-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"JD Vance&#039;s past backing of IVF contradicts Jennifer Aniston&#039;s social media criticism, reports the Washington Examiner\">childless cat ladies<\/a>&rdquo; remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Impervious to truth and eager to sow discord, establishment figures have repeated Vance&rsquo;s comments while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-harvard-student-group-wants-to-combat-misinformation-by-promoting-news-sources-that-peddle-hamas-propaganda\/\" title=\"This Harvard Student Group Wants To Combat &#039;Misinformation&#039;\u2014By Promoting News Sources That Peddle Hamas Propaganda\">omitting crucial context<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday on the social media platform X, however, Trump 2024 national press secretary Karoline Leavitt d a 30-second clip that provided said context and subsequently went viral, thus proving once again that sharing evidence far and wide constitutes the most effective antidote to toxic liberal gaslighting.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy over Vance&rsquo;s comments began in earnest on Monday, when liberal journalist and former federal prosecutor Ron Filipkowski posted to X a 28-second clip of Vance speaking in 2021 with then-Fox News host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tucker-carlson-drops-bombshell-unusually-good-source-obama-sabotage-biden-underway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tucker Carlson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  <script> \t\t\t\tif( ! getCookie( 'ff_subbed' ) ) if( typeof FFADS.replace_ict !='undefined' ) if( FFADS.replace_ict ) eval( FFADS.replace_ict ); \t\t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they&rsquo;ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too,&rdquo; Vance said.<\/p>\n<p>The then-candidate for U.S. Senate identified Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/peter-doocy-confronts-kjp-misleading-kamala-harris-talking-points-card-handed-dc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kamala Harris<\/a>, presumptive 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, along with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, as present and future leaders of the Democratic Party who, because they have no children, &ldquo;don&rsquo;t really have a direct stake&rdquo; in the future of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;JD Vance says women who haven&rsquo;t given birth like Kamala Harris are &lsquo;childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives,&rsquo; and have &lsquo;no direct stake&rsquo; in America,&rdquo; Filipkowski wrote in an accompanying post.<\/p>\n<p>That is, of course, not what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/vance-grilled-woke-biden-nominees-lgbt-agenda-months-blocking-confirmations-leaked-memo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vance<\/a> said. But the dishonest Filipkowski posted it anyway.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">JD Vance says women who haven&rsquo;t given birth like Kamala Harris are &ldquo;childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives,&rdquo; and have &ldquo;no direct stake&rdquo; in America. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3DJY3pQTGe\">pic.twitter.com\/3DJY3pQTGe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonFilipkowski\/status\/1815503440983867598?\">July 22, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As one would expect, prominent women &mdash; deprived of context by Filipkowski&rsquo;s editing &mdash; jumped at the chance to signal their virtue.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2024\/07\/24\/jennifer-aniston-slams-jd-vance-childless-cat-ladies-comments\/74537088007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA Today<\/a>, actress Jennifer Aniston took to Instagram to chastise Vance for something he never said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;All I can say is&hellip; Mr. Vance, I pray that your daughter is fortunate enough to bear children of her own one day. I hope she will not need to turn to IVF as a second option. Because you are trying to take that away from her, too,&rdquo; Aniston wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, nominal Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/meghan-mccain-rails-arizona-republicans-going-full-blown-maga-primary-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghan McCain<\/a>, daughter of the late Sen. John McCain of Arizona, joined the chorus of faux indignation.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;One of my best friends did rounds and rounds of unsuccessful IVF wanting to have a child. It is still painful to talk about. This &lsquo;childless women&rsquo; comment by JD Vance has made so many waves with so many different friends of mine for it&rsquo;s insensitivity and cruelty to women,&rdquo; McCain posted on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">One of my best friends did rounds and rounds of unsuccessful IVF wanting to have a child. It is still painful to talk about.<\/p>\n<p>This &ldquo;childless women&rdquo; comment by JD Vance has made so many waves with so many different friends of mine for it&rsquo;s insensitivity and cruelty to women. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6FfagKwzAV\">https:\/\/t.co\/6FfagKwzAV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeghanMcCain\/status\/1816219385691869240?\">July 24, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>To recap, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/next-time-someone-tells-jd-vance-trump-hater-show-83-second-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vance<\/a> specifically used the phrase &ldquo;miserable at their own lives and the choices that they&rsquo;ve made.&rdquo; In other words, he clearly meant to refer to a certain kind of person who remained childless by choice. He even mentioned Buttigieg, which proved that he did not have only women in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Filipkowski then distorted Vance&rsquo;s words to mean not women who regret a choice but all &ldquo;women who haven&rsquo;t given birth.&rdquo; Aniston and McCain ran with Filipkowski&rsquo;s lie.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, however, Leavitt responded directly to McCain.<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt&rsquo;s 30-second clip, which had more than 3.8 million views on X as of Friday morning, showed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/vp-call-trump-heard-vances-son-7-background-made-special-request\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vance<\/a> speaking to the conservative <a href=\"https:\/\/isi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Intercollegiate Studies Institute<\/a> in 2021. The comments he made there refer the ones he made in his interview with Carlson.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A lot of people are unable to have kids for very complicated and important reasons,&rdquo; Vance told ISI event attendees.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The target of these remarks is not them. It&rsquo;s important to point that out. There have always been people like that, who even though they would like to have kids [are] unable to have them. Let&rsquo;s set them to the side,&rdquo; he added moments later.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-responds-vance-vp-pick-hyper-dangerous-threat-democracy-message\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vance<\/a> specifically excluded from his remarks the unfortunate and heartbroken women to whom Aniston and McCain referred.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As a new mom, my heart aches for women who are unable to bear children. @JDVance words are being taken out of context and unfairly attacked,&rdquo; Leavitt wrote in an accompanying post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">As a new mom, my heart aches for women who are unable to bear children. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDVance?\">@JDVance<\/a> words are being taken out of context and unfairly attacked.<\/p>\n<p>Here are his full comments from 2021:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A lot of people are unable to have kids for very complicated and important reasons&hellip;there are&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q0yfpQWNfc\">https:\/\/t.co\/Q0yfpQWNfc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JOWbiIQ7Qf\">pic.twitter.com\/JOWbiIQ7Qf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Karoline Leavitt (@kleavittnh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kleavittnh\/status\/1816558690729644105?\">July 25, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the interest of full disclosure, I should say that 15 years ago I also participated in an ISI event. There, I heard former Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes make remarks similar to Vance&rsquo;s.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, I took offense to Keyes&rsquo; remarks. After all, years of chasing career-related goals had trained me to bristle at any reference to my own childlessness.<\/p>\n<p>Today, however, I recognize that Keyes had it right. And so did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/sen-j-d-vance-discovers-impeachment-time-bomb-next-trump-presidency-buried-ukraine-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The ubiquitous modern lie that human beings can best fill their lives with meaning by pursuing professional advancement instead of building a family has left me and many others I know from my generation facing a lonely old age.<\/p>\n<p>I made the choice not to have children, so I harbor no resentment.<\/p>\n<p>But that gets exactly to Vance&rsquo;s point: Others have made the same choice and have experienced deep misery as a result. Those people, hampered by a leftist indoctrination that encourages resentment on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/leftists-hate-christianity-kryptonite-marxism-filmmakers-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marxist<\/a> ideological grounds and unwilling to confront the terrible consequences of their choices, have no business spreading the fulfillment-through-career lie to a new generation.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, therefore, we could stop with the hoaxes and start taking seriously the question of what actually makes life meaningful.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\">  <\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> <label>* Name<\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> <\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> <label>* <\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> <\/div>\n<p> <label>* Message<\/label> <br \/> <textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\">  <\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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In the midst of a series of bizarre occurrences over the last two weeks, Trump&#8217;s choice of Republican Senator J.D. Vance from Ohio as his running mate for 2024 went somewhat unnoticed. However, this did not stop the rise of a hoax, fueled by establishment interests, regarding Vance&#8217;s 2021 comments about &#8220;childless cat ladies.&#8221; These figures, indifferent to the truth and eager to create division, have repeated Vance&#8217;s statements while leaving out essential context. On Thursday, Trump 2024 national press secretary Karoline Leavitt shared a 30-second video clip on the social media platform X that provided this context, which quickly gained traction, demonstrating that disseminating evidence widely is an effective remedy against misleading liberal narratives. The uproar over Vance&#8217;s remarks intensified on Monday when liberal journalist and former federal prosecutor Ron Filipkowski posted a 28-second video of Vance speaking with then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson in 2021. <\/p>\n<p>Vance stated, &#8220;We\u2019re effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they\u2019ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.&#8221; He specifically pointed to Vice President Kamala Harris, presumptive 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as current and future leaders of the Democratic Party who, due to not having children, &#8220;don\u2019t really have a direct stake&#8221; in the future of the United States. Filipkowski misrepresented Vance&#8217;s comments, claiming he said that women like Harris are &#8220;childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives&#8221; and have &#8220;no direct stake&#8221; in America, which was a distortion of Vance&#8217;s actual words.<\/p>\n<p>Prominent women, lacking the full context due to Filipkowski&#8217;s editing, seized the opportunity to express their outrage. Actress Jennifer Aniston criticized Vance on Instagram for something he did not say, expressing hope that his daughter would have children and not need IVF. Similarly, Meghan McCain, daughter of the late Senator John McCain, joined the outcry, sharing her own painful experiences with infertility and calling Vance&#8217;s comments insensitive and cruel.<\/p>\n<p>To clarify, Vance specifically referred to individuals who are &#8220;miserable at their own lives and the choices that they\u2019ve made,&#8221; indicating he was addressing a particular type of person who chose to remain childless. Filipkowski twisted Vance&#8217;s words to imply he was speaking about all &#8220;women who haven\u2019t given birth.&#8221; Aniston and McCain took the bait and amplified this misrepresentation. However, on Thursday, Leavitt directly addressed McCain, sharing a clip that had garnered over 3.8 million views on X, where Vance clarified his earlier remarks at a conservative event, stating, &#8220;A lot of people are unable to have kids for very complicated and important reasons&#8230; The target of these remarks is not them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt emphasized that Vance&#8217;s comments were being taken out of context and unfairly criticized. She expressed empathy for women unable to have children and highlighted Vance&#8217;s intention to exclude those who genuinely wish to have children but cannot. Reflecting on her own experiences, the author acknowledges that while she once found similar remarks offensive, she now understands the truth in Vance&#8217;s perspective. The modern misconception that fulfillment comes solely from career achievements rather than family has left many from her generation facing loneliness in old age. She argues that those who have made the choice to remain childless often experience regret and that the narrative promoting career over family should be reconsidered. 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