Rapscallion Brandishes Vulgar Message About JD Vance During MSNBC Live Hit from DNC
A prankster at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago displayed a vulgar message behind an MSNBC analyst live on the air on Thursday afternoon on the final day of the convention.
At 3:36 p.m. ET, a young man with a mobile phone first walked up behind Punchbowl News founder and network political analyst Jake Sherman, who had just begun a live hit from the United Center.
Sherman was discussing the probability of Democrats winning a House majority in November with network anchor Katy Tur, but the unidentified video bomber had something on his mind other than the business of the lower chamber.
The rapscallion spread a false tale about Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) that has been debunked numerous times – that the running mate of former President Donald Trump once attempted to sexually experiment with a sofa while he was in his youth.
Holding up his mobile phone, the malcontent was at first unable to get his message on the air. His persistence paid off when his phone was finally captured by an MSNBC camera at 3:37 p.m.
The message read: “JD VANCE FUCKS COUCHES.”
Neither Tur nor Sherman appeared to be aware of the prankster’s antics and no mention of his message was acknowledged by the network.
As USA Today noted, a joke that was first posted on X (formerly Twitter) on July 15 claimed Vance wrote in his bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy that he had made love to a piece of furniture.
A tweet that spread like wildfire read, “can’t say for sure but he might be the first vp pick to have admitted in a ny times bestseller to an inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions (vance, hillbilly elegy, pp. 179-181).”
No such excerpt exists but that has not stopped people who oppose the Trump/Vance ticket from spreading the falsehood. The Associated Press fact-checked the claim in a story that was headlined, “No, JD Vance did not have sex with a couch.”
the bizarre story was here https://t.co/j4RP2CmWQ6 pic.twitter.com/SQ8IRT5xA6
— Andy Kaczynski (@KFILE) July 25, 2024
The fact check by the AP was later taken down and the wire service explained, “This story did not go through our standard editing process and has been removed.”
While the AP took down its story on the claim, it stands true that Vance did not write in his book that he partook in such an experiment.
Watch above via MSNBC.
