Two different worlds, two different sources of news

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TownHall has a recap of the circus event, including a number of short clips from various segments, but for my purpose of highlighting the difference in media coverage depending on whether the reporting is coming from the left or the right, these will do:

FOX:

JD Vance left stunned following 'The View' appearance, reveals what Joy Behar told him during commercial break

'It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be,' the VP says about appearing on the ABC program

I expected them to be absolutely vicious, and they were only a little bit vicious. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be," Vance said on "Gutfeld!" Tuesday.

"Joy Behar even said during the break, not joking, she said, 'You know what? You're, like, pretty good for a Republican.' And I was like, 'Whoa.' That is a way better compliment than I expected from Joy Behar," he continued.

It wasn't, however, all sunshine and rainbows for Vance in his debut appearance on the ABC daytime talk show."I thought that Sunny, the woman to my left, was going to call me a racist. In reality, it was Whoopi, the woman to my right, who called me a racist. So expectations were defied," Vance joked.

Vance was likely referencing an exchange he had with co-host Whoopi Goldberg, who grilled him over allegations that the Trump administration watered down or removed exhibits of Black history at various museums, an assertion Vance combatted.

He and "The View" co-hosts clashed on several topics, like President Donald Trump's recent comments about inflation as well as immigration

And then we have coverage by The Independent and Slate; commentary by AWFLS, for AWFLS, about AWFLS:

First up, The Independent:

JD Vance went on The View and got absolutely torn to shreds by middle-aged women

The vice president tried to make himself palatable to women voters while promoting his new book. Instead, he scored a number of hard-to-watch own goals, writes Holly Baxter

J.D. Vance found time in his busy schedule to promote his book on daytime television today — and what a promotion it was.

In case you’re out of the loop and/or you’ve been concentrating on other, lesser news items like the Iran deal or the G7, allow me to enlighten you. Communion is the book nobody asked for, but by God, we’re all going to get. It’s about Vance’s conversion to Catholicism, presumably written in order to make the vice president seem more palatable for a 2028 presidential run.

His appearance on The View, a show whose audience — and panel — are predominantly middle-aged women, makes sense. It’s well-known both that MAGA Republicans are hemorrhaging female voters and that Vance as a person has a major woman problem. This is surely supposed to be the de-ickifying of a vice president who has steadfastly been giving women the ick since 2021.

If I were his campaign manager, however, my head would be in my hands right now. The panel opened with a question on the economy. Why are prices still high, he was asked, when Vance and Trump ran together on a platform of lower prices for all?

“We were elected on a number of mandates,” Vance clarified, in a bizarre twist on ‘well, actually’ that didn’t exactly make him look good. One was to lower immigration. Another was to lower prices, and as for that, “there’s a lot of work to do.” Which, I mean... of course.

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If you wanted a masterclass in how to give women the ick, you’d just have to air this hour-long horror show. But the smile on Vance’s face as the final credits rolled showed he thought he’d achieved a job well done. And that’s a massive part of the problem.

Slate:

I Have Exactly One Good Thing to Say About J.D. Vance’s Chaotic Appearance on The View

J.D. Vance’s visit to The View on Tuesday made for one of the most incoherent hours of television I’ve ever watched, which is saying something for a show that’s known for its chaos and political disagreements. But where the show usually devolves into bedlam over the course of a segment, Vance’s episode started from a place of chaos and never really settled down.

The vice president was there to promote his new and incomprehensibly boring-sounding memoir, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith. [a book about Christian faith would indeed be considered “incomprehensibly boring: to a Slate commentator — Ed].

Though Vance came prepared to be, to the extent he can be, warm and likeable, the co-hosts launched into hard-hitting questions pretty much right away. The View has six co-hosts, and traditionally they’ve represented a range of political orientations. [Hahahaha!] At least four of the six on Tuesday’s show seemed openly hostile to Vance. Judging by her face, Ana Navarro, a vocally anti-Trump Republican, often seemed outright pissed to be sitting next to him. Also not letting him off easy were Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, and Sunny Hostin.

Vance’s main ally was Alyssa Farah Griffin, who worked in the first Trump administration and at the end of the show presented him, rather abruptly because she had to break into a contentious exchange to do so, with a onesie for the new baby he and his wife are expecting. It was one of the rare welcoming moments for Vance, who otherwise didn’t get much of the easy daytime reception complete with softball questions about his new book and his wife and family that he must have been hoping for. [No, he knew exactly what he was in for, and said so, several times, before the event — that’s why we were all looking forward to this — Ed] Instead, the co-hosts peppered him with questions about the Trump administration and tried to hold him accountable for both his own and his boss’s words. ….

America’s paper of Record offers the best summary of the proceedings: