Back during an September appearance on CNN’s State of the Union, vice presidential candidate JD Vance sounded off amid apparent hostility from anchor Dana Bash. At one point, Vance had enough of Bash interrupting him while attempting to answer her question, to which he called her out live on air. That earned him a great deal of praise online.
“Dana, would you like to ask me questions and then let me answer them? Or would you like to debate me on these topics?” Vance said before calling out the much different treatment that Harris and Walz received when Bash interviewed them, something that many on the right noted about their interviews with MSM personalities.
Commenting on just how ridiculous he saw their interview with her as being, and how she treated them with kid gloves during it, he said, “I noticed that when you had Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, you gave them multiple-choice answers to the questions that you asked and you allowed them to answer the questions.”
Continuing, Vance asked that she cease interrupting and contesting his comments to allow him to give complete answers. “I’m happy to be here to talk about policy, but if you’re going to interrupt me every single time that I open my mouth, then why am I even doing this, so please ask a question, and I’d ask you to be polite enough to let me answer it,” he said.
As could be expected, conservatives on X (formerly Twitter) loved that moment and praised now-Vice President-elect Vance for how he handled hostility from the CNN personality. For example, the Resist the Mainstream X account said, “MIC DROP💥 JD Vance slams CNN host, Dana Bash giving her a lesson in manners.”
Commenters on that post sounded off on Bash as well, hammering her for how she treated Vance and conducted the interview. One, for example, wrote, “Bash is a hack and a propagandist and NOT a journalist!” Another added that Bash had been interrupting JD in absurd fashion, saying, “As she interrupts him again before he finishes his statement….🙄”
Another commenter hammered Bash for not listening to JD when he did try teaching her some manners, saying, “And, notice closely, even when Vance expls manners to @DanaBashCNN , telling her not to interrupt him, she almost does it yet again! You really cant despise media & dems enough. Always nearly conclusively presume their bad faith & lying when they speak.”
Still others chimed in to bash Bash and praise Vance for his skillful handling of the journalist. One, for example, wrote, “@DanaBashCNN, you pissed away in pretense of being a journalist. Go ahead and put on the democrat cheerleading uniform.” Another said, “Vance wasnt even my top 5 but man I love him so much now. Trump nailed it with Vance.” Watch Vance here:
"*" indicates required fields