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@wdlindsy@toad.social · Apr 15, 2026
Parker Molloy brilliantly reminds us that JD Vance is the creation of the mainstream media which, knowing the money lying behind him (can anyone say Peter Thiel?) has persistently sanewashed him and presented him as the "intellectual" alternative in the Trump-Vance pairing. The reprehensible journalistic technique they employ in talking about Vance is anonymous quotes from unnamed DC insiders. #JDVance #media #sanewashing /1 https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-foremost-war-skeptic
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · Apr 15, 2026
"JD Vance’s political career doesn’t exist without Hillbilly Elegy, and Hillbilly Elegy doesn’t exist as a political launchpad without a specific institutional decision, made in 2016 by the exact outlets now writing the war skeptic pieces, to elevate it as the book that would explain Trump voters to coastal readers. For Vance, the press is running the inoculation campaign." #JDVance #media #sanewashing /2
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · Apr 15, 2026
"They’re laundering the anonymous quotes into news and printing the framing his comms team is handing them. They know what they’re doing. They’re doing it anyway. If JD Vance becomes president in 2028, this is part of how it happens. Every outlet, all at once, all writing the same framing. By the time anyone in those newsrooms wants to admit the pattern, they will already have done the job." #JDVance #media #sanewashing /3
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · Apr 15, 2026
"I mentioned here in the shebeen on Monday that I suspected the elite political media was warming up to rehabilitate Vice President J Divan Vance as the mythical 'reasonable Republican' in time for the 2028 presidential election. ... And here we have Tiger Beat on the Potomac [i.e., Politico] all over the story of how Vance already is building a juggernaut among the professional political classes." ~ Charles Pierce #JDVance #media #sanewashing /4 https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a71014565/jd-vance-presidential-candidate-political-media
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@wdlindsy@toad.social · Apr 15, 2026
"Vance is a prefab candidate created by the techno-bro establishment. (The plans are hung on the wall of Peter Thiel’s basement.) That marks him as something of a weirdo. (What the hell was that business of his wife and skydiving about, anyway?) And, in any case, he remains equally unpopular and unlikable and so politically maladroit that no amount of Vancewashing in the public prints is going to change that." #JDVance #media #sanewashing /5
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@SrRochardBunson@universeodon.com · Apr 06, 2026
@ironcladlou@hachyderm.io 🎯 #Sanewashing at its finest
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