‘This Is Special’: Joe Scarborough Slams JD Vance Attack On Media After ‘Making Up’ Ohio ‘Cat Meme Story’
Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough hit back at Republican running mate Senator JD Vance (R-OH) for “making up” Ohio “cat meme story” and blaming the “media” for ignoring the “suffering of the American people.”
The unfounded conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants were eating citizens’ pets spread online in recent weeks, pushed by MAGA influencers online and eventually by former President Donald Trump himself during the ABC-hosted presidential debate as an attack on Vice President Kamala Harris’s immigration policies in the Biden administration. Despite denials by the state governor and mayor, the rumors have sparked multiple bomb threats throughout the city, prompting school closures.
Vance appeared on CNN Sunday to admit to host Dana Bash that he was “creating a story” in propagating the rumors so the mainstream media would pay attention.
He told Bash: “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.” He went on to accuse the media of allowing Harris to “coast” on the issues.
Reacting to the clip during Monday’s Morning Joe, Scarborough slammed the senator for “making up” the stories that were now, according to local authorities and religious leaders, “putting people’s lives in danger.”
This is special. JD Vance says the American media wouldn’t cover this story, so they had to make up the story. We’re supposed to cover a story that’s not true. The American media wouldn’t cover this story, so he said I had to create the story. He had to create this cat meme story, that would be all cute if it was just Donald Trump saying that people are eating dogs and cats. Doing remixes. He’s obsessed with cats. But, unfortunately, and you hear religious leaders talking about this, you hear local leaders in Springfield talking about this, there is now the threat of violence, the fear of violence, bomb threats against the people of Springfield.
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