{"id":2354840,"date":"2024-10-14T18:12:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T22:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-media-scream-vance-and-johnson-hit-media-tds-nitpickers-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-14T18:13:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T22:13:49","slug":"liberal-media-scream-vance-and-johnson-hit-media-tds-nitpickers-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-media-scream-vance-and-johnson-hit-media-tds-nitpickers-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Media Scream: Vance and Johnson hit media TDS nitpickers &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fliberal-media-scream-vance-and-johnson-hit-media-tds-nitpickers-washington-examiner%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=2354840&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>The article discusses recent media interactions involving\u2064 former President Donald Trump\u2063 and his allies,\u200c particularly Senator J.D. Vance and\u2063 House Speaker Mike Johnson, amid Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-grand-jury-seated-for-next-stage-of-trump-investigation\/\" title=\"New Grand Jury Seated for Next Stage of Trump Investigation\">increasing momentum<\/a> against Vice President Kamala \u2064Harris. Vance\u200d and Johnson defended Trump\u2063 during Sunday news shows from what they describe\u2064 as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-electors-place-their-votes-for-president-trump-and-then-vote-to-condemn-supreme-court-for-throwing-out-texas-lawsuit\/\" title=\"Texas Electors Place Their Votes for President Trump and Then Vote to Condemn Supreme Court for Throwing Out Texas Lawsuit\">media bias<\/a> and &#8220;Trump Derangement\u2063 Syndrome.&#8221; The discussions included critical questions raised by ABC&#8217;s Martha Raddatz and \u200bNBC&#8217;s\u2064 Kristen Welker, who pressed Vance on Trump&#8217;s statements regarding crime linked to \u200billegal immigration and questioned Johnson about \u2064Trump&#8217;s health reports. Vance criticized the\u200b media&#8217;s focus on nitpicking\u2064 Trump&#8217;s words instead\u200d of addressing \u200clarger issues like crime in\u2064 American communities, emphasizing \u200cthat\u200b such distractions are harmful when serious problems persist. \u2062Johnson also defended Trump, suggesting that the public&#8217;s concerns extend\u200c beyond \u200bhealth records. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-jr-enjoys-the-attention-from-vance-after-vp-power-struggle-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Don Jr enjoys the attention from Vance after VP power struggle - Washington Examiner\">article illustrates<\/a> a heated\u2063 exchange as Vance and Johnson challenge the media narrative while attempting to shift the focus to broader \u200bnational issues.  <\/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\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Liberal Media Scream: Vance and Johnson hit media TDS nitpickers<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1835689\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>As former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> picks up steam against challenger Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" title>Kamala Harris<\/a>, the media are throwing everything at the wall in hopes that something will stick to the Teflon Republican.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Fortunately for Trump, there is running mate Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jd-vance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>J.D. Vance<\/a> (R-OH) and House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Mike Johnson<\/a> (R-LA) knocking away all the charges, similar to what San Francisco offensive tackle Trent Williams does to passes from opposing quarterbacks.<\/p>\n<p>This week&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/3179809\/liberal-media-scream-andrea-mitchell-whines-men-business-supporting-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Liberal Media Scream<\/a> features two Sunday show hosts suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, ABC&rsquo;s Martha Raddatz of <em>This Week<\/em> and NBC&rsquo;s <em>Meet the Press<\/em> moderator Kristen Welker.<\/p>\n<p>While Harris and running mate Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) have avoided the Sunday shows, Vance and Johnson are regulars who like swatting away charges from moderators. On Sunday, they had their hands full.<\/p>\n<p>Raddatz was obsessed with pressing Vance on Trump, questioning his statements, including claims that illegal immigrants had taken over apartment buildings in Aurora, Colorado. When she said it was just a &ldquo;handful&rdquo; of buildings, Vance signaled that he had enough.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;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,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Welker hit Trump for not revealing his health reports, even demanding his cholesterol report. That had Johnson suggesting that the public has bigger problems to consider.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vance Chides &lsquo;Nitpicking&rsquo; of Trump, Welker Proves Point By Demanding Trump&rsquo;s Cholesterol Level\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MOC1UnHRzdY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>ABC&rsquo;s <em>This Week:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>J.D. VANCE:<\/strong> <em>And, of course, President Trump was actually in Aurora, Colorado, talking to people on the ground, and what we&rsquo;re hearing, of course, Martha, is that people are terrified by what has happened with some of these Venezuelan gangs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>MARTHA RADDATZ:<\/strong> <em>Sen. Vance, I&rsquo;m going to stop you because I know exactly what happened. I&rsquo;m going to stop you. The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes, and the mayor said our dedicated police officers have acted on those concerns. A handful of problems.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>VANCE:<\/strong> <em>Only &mdash; 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&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/constitutional-crisis-or-political-war\/\" title=\"Constitutional Crisis or Political War\">open border<\/a>?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Americans are so fed up with what&rsquo;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&rsquo;ve got to get American communities in a safe space again.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>NBC&rsquo;s <em>Meet the Press:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>KRISTEN WELKER:<\/strong> <em>Should he release the results of the cognitive test that he said &hellip;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>MIKE JOHNSON:<\/strong> <em>It&rsquo;s unnecessary. He&rsquo;s on display every minute.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>WELKER:<\/strong> <em>So you concede he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: &#039;Pipeline&#039; to Obama Admin Seen as &#039;Currency&#039;\">didn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t release his medical records? You don&rsquo;t want to know things like his cholesterol level, whether he&rsquo;s dealing with any issue that we may not know about, if he&rsquo;s going to be commander in chief? And he also said he would release cognitive tests, which he aced.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>JOHNSON:<\/strong> <em>Kristen, listen to your question.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>WELKER:<\/strong> <em>Should he release that?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>JOHNSON:<\/strong> <em>The American people &mdash; Kristen, the American people don&rsquo;t care about the cholesterol level of Donald Trump. They care about the cost of living and the fact they cannot pay for groceries because Kamala Harris and Joe Biden&rsquo;s policies have put them in that situation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SEE THE LATEST POLITICAL NEWS AND BUZZ FROM WASHINGTON SECRETS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc.org\/staff\/brent-baker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Brent Baker<\/a>, vice president of research and publications for the Media Research Center, explained our weekly pick: &ldquo;A wonderful display of why the press corps are held in such low regard. Journalists do indeed &lsquo;nitpick&rsquo; Trump while missing the big picture of the border problem Trump is raising, which is a top concern of most Americans. And then they obsess over something that few care about that has nothing to do with the policies proposed by either presidential candidate.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rating:<\/span> <em><strong>FOUR<\/strong> out of <strong>FIVE<\/strong> Screams.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1835689\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1835689\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberal Media Scream: Vance and Johnson counter media nitpickers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2647,"featured_media":2354841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Vance-Sunday-Shows-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32491,33295,19688,43003,32076],"class_list":["post-2354840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-liberal-media","tag-media-criticism","tag-tds","tag-vance-and-johnson","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Vance-Sunday-Shows-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2354840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2354841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}