{"id":2360714,"date":"2024-10-28T18:23:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T22:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-says-people-need-to-take-a-joke-after-madison-square-garden-comedian-backlash-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-28T18:24:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T22:24:21","slug":"vance-says-people-need-to-take-a-joke-after-madison-square-garden-comedian-backlash-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-says-people-need-to-take-a-joke-after-madison-square-garden-comedian-backlash-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance says people need to \u2018take a joke\u2019 after Madison Square Garden comedian backlash &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fvance-says-people-need-to-take-a-joke-after-madison-square-garden-comedian-backlash-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=2360714&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>Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) has suggested that people should \u200blearn to &#8220;take a joke&#8221; following backlash against a comedian&#8217;s\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-retired-lt-general-honore-too-partisan-to-lead-capitol-security-probe\/\" title=\"GOP: Retired Lt. General Honore too partisan to lead Capitol security probe\">derogatory remarks<\/a> about Puerto\u200b Rico during a rally at Madison Square Garden. Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe had referred to Puerto \u200cRico as a \u2063&#8221;floating pile of garbage,&#8221; sparking outrage from both\u200c Democrats\u2064 and Republicans, including Senator \u2062Rick Scott (R-FL). When asked\u2062 about the incident, Vance acknowledged he hadn&#8217;t seen the joke but\u200d argued\u200b that\u2063 the\u200b reaction was overly harsh, pointing \u2062out that criticisms directed at Trump&#8217;s supporters were more concerning\u200c than the comedian&#8217;s quip. He emphasized the importance\u200b of not taking offense at\u2064 every little comment \u2064and compared \u2063the situation to another joke made by Mexican American\u200d comedian George Lopez, which he felt\u200b had received less\u2064 scrutiny. Vance ultimately voiced a sentiment of needing to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">overlook minor slights<\/a>\u2062 in favor of a broader perspective.  <\/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\">Vance says people need to &lsquo;take a joke&rsquo; after Madison Square Garden comedian backlash<\/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_1847917\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jd-vance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"J.D. Vance\">J.D. Vance<\/a> (R-OH) said people need to &ldquo;take a joke&rdquo; after backlash over a joke from a comedian at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/daily-memo\/3206380\/at-madison-square-garden-wide-world-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Madison Square Garden rally\">Madison Square Garden rally<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>On Sunday, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, speaking several speakers before former President Donald Trump and Vance, joked that Puerto Rico was a &ldquo;floating pile of garbage.&rdquo; The quip was met with backlash from Democrats and some Republicans, including Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), whose state hosts a sizable Puerto Rican population.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2667006&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=36e2e781dea559f4d8e753d4975720e3\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>When asked about the joke at a Monday campaign event, Vance said that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leaked-private-call-reveals-biden-questioning-trump-about-turning-his-head-during-assassination-attempt\/\" title=\"Leaked private call reveals Biden questioning Trump about turning his head during assassination attempt\">hadn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t heard the joke, but that it was surely being blown out of proportion.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Now I didn&rsquo;t, I&rsquo;ve heard about the joke, but I haven&rsquo;t actually seen the joke that you mentioned, but I think that it&rsquo;s telling that Kamala Harris&rsquo;s closing message is essentially that all of Donald Trump&rsquo;s voters are Nazis, and you should get really p****d off about a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/when-judging-anti-semitism-should-we-accept-ignorance-as-an-excuse\/\" title=\"When Judging Anti-Semitism, Should We Accept Ignorance As An Excuse?\">comedian telling<\/a> a joke,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;That is not the message of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-backtrack-president-now-says-he-will-not-veto-infrastructure-deal\/\" title=\"Biden Backtrack? President Now Says He Will Not Veto Infrastructure Deal\">winning campaign<\/a>, and most importantly, it&rsquo;s not the message of a person who fit to be the President of the United States of America.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And my own view on this is &hellip; again, I haven&rsquo;t seen the joke,&rdquo; Vance continued. &ldquo;Maybe, maybe it&rsquo;s a stupid, racist joke because you said, maybe it&rsquo;s not. I haven&rsquo;t seen it. I&rsquo;m not going to comment on the specifics of the joke, but I think that we have to stop getting so offended at every little thing in the United States of America. I&rsquo;m just so over it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He then contrasted the situation with a joke portrayed by some as offensive toward Mexicans from Mexican American comedian George Lopez at a Vice President Kamala Harris rally. The comedian joked that a wall on the United States-Mexico border would have to be constructed quickly because otherwise, Mexicans would steal the building material. Vance said he was shown the joke and urged to blow it up to show the alleged hypocrisy of the Harris campaign, which he declined.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And my response was, &lsquo;Can we all just take a chill pill and take a joke from time to time?&rsquo; This is ridiculous,&rdquo; he said to cheers.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our country was built by frontiersmen who conquered the wilderness,&rdquo; Vance continued. &ldquo;We are not going&hellip; to restore the greatness of American civilization if we get offended at every little thing. Let&rsquo;s have a sense of humor and let&rsquo;s have a little fun. And let&rsquo;s go win in eight days, God bless you.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hinchcliffe defended his joke as typical of his comedy routine, adding that he likes Puerto Rico and vacations there. Democrats held up the joke as showing that Trump&rsquo;s MSG rally was hateful, with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3205623\/aoc-trump-comedian-trashed-puerto-rico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"declaring\">declaring<\/a> that it was a &ldquo;mini Jan. 6&rdquo; rally.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump campaign and Republicans have largely distanced themselves from the joke.<\/p>\n<\/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_1847917\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1847917\"}});<\/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>Vance urges people to &#8220;take a joke&#8221; after comedian&#8217;s backlash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2360716,"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\/JD-Vance_Trump_campaign_New-York_ool9.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4265,7958,23272,42641,15469],"class_list":["post-2360714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-backlash","tag-comedy","tag-humor","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-vance"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/JD-Vance_Trump_campaign_New-York_ool9.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360714","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\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2360714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2360716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}