Shame on the Associated Press. Well, we'd shame them if they had shame. But they're incapable of it.

Here's the post the put up last night, which they deleted:

As many users pointed out, that's not what Vance said.

The full quote is: "I don’t like that this is a fact of life."

This is a really misleading headline and Tweet. AP should really change it. https://t.co/VAnwOaEzYe

— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) September 6, 2024

It was intentionally misleading.

The full quote: "I don’t like that this is a fact of life. But if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets. And we have got to bolster security at our schools."

— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) September 6, 2024

And Vance isn't wrong.

After getting ratioed into oblivion and having several pending Community Notes, the AP deleted that post and issued a correction:

JD Vance says he laments that school shootings are a "fact of life" and says the U.S. needs to harden security to prevent more carnage like the shooting this week that left four dead in Georgia.https://t.co/mdz0617PDl

— The Associated Press (@AP) September 6, 2024

But the damage was done:

But the point of it is to mislead millions of people. It’s not a mistake; it’s doing what it was intended to do. https://t.co/iEF0duywBE

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) September 6, 2024

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Nailed it.

And, as always, the original, deleted post received significantly more views than the correction.

Deleted post: 2.2 million impressions

Corrected post: 100k impressions pic.twitter.com/4Q5tpIoGXn

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 6, 2024

And that's the entire point.

As demonstrated by the response of the Kamala Harris campaign:

AP put out a false headline, deletes the post, but this was the entire point. Incredible. https://t.co/BTYbgrPRm0

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 6, 2024

Just incredible.

You don't despise the media enough.