'Holy crap'! WaPo should be utterly ashamed of 'absolutely mindblowing' character assassination attempt on Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance; UPDATED

As Twitchy told you earlier, pro-abort Marissa Brostoff vomited up a historically illiterate garbage piece for the Washington Post trying to tie the American pro-life movement to white supremacy.

i wrote about the white nationalism deep in the heart of the anti-abortion movement https://t.co/MkLKOwsx28

— Marissa Brostoff (@MarissaBrostoff) August 27, 2019

It was bad enough that she willfully ignored the American abortion movement’s shamefully racist origins in order to push her false narrative. But she managed to make it even worse by flinging vile and quite possibly libelous mud at “Hillbilly Elegy” author J.D. Vance:

This is super irresponsible, @washingtonpost. Quite revealing, too. pic.twitter.com/E0EaNW0la2

— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) August 27, 2019

Note the complete absence of a shred of evidence for the insinuation about @JDVance1 at the end of this stupid piece. https://t.co/zgEOvPt87c

— Ramesh Ponnuru (@RameshPonnuru) August 27, 2019

Without sufficient evidence to support her narrative, Brostoff resorted to manufacturing it, maligning an innocent man’s character in the process.

"Vance did not spell out exactly who was included in the word “our.” He didn’t need to." – @MarissaBrostoff on @JDVance1

Yeah, real mystery who Vance was referring to… same speech, SAME PARAGRAPH: "…whether a nation is having enough children to replace itself."

"a nation" pic.twitter.com/6dB4UhmiXT

— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) August 27, 2019

HERE'S THE ACTUAL EXCERPT https://t.co/F9L4k1oiwH

(it should automatically go to 9:15)

You can PLAINLY see and hear that he's talking about America in general.

This is a @washingtonpost hit job.

— Justin Hart (@justin_hart) August 27, 2019

The Post has published a number of pieces that lump prominent conservatives together with truly vile racists they oppose and that lump them together without the slightest shred of justification. Disgusting. @JDVance1 is a good man. https://t.co/iG9wDHDnlE

— David French (@DavidAFrench) August 27, 2019

Marissa Brostoff is a grotesque person and @washingtonpost should be embarrassed by this https://t.co/s3ThVQikkM

— PoliMath (@politicalmath) August 27, 2019

Remember only journalists and outlets like WaPo or the NYT are allowed to publish shit to try and ruin your life https://t.co/DXri0Jynor

— Bob Malak (@bob_malak) August 27, 2019

This smear of @JDVance1 by @MarissaBrostoff would be outrageous if it weren’t such a crystalline example of WaPo’s lazy habit of running contributions from the shallowest intellectual tidal pools of the online left.

— Luke Thompson (@ltthompso) August 27, 2019

The Washington Post apparently doesn’t see a need to not be lazy. As long as they keep fanning the flames, they’re doing their job as far as they’re concerned.

“‘Our people aren’t having enough children to replace themselves. That should bother us,’ J.D. Vance, author of the best-selling ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ told his audience at the National Conservatism Conference last month.”

Um, yikes. https://t.co/VU1A2pWNBI

— Greg Greene (@ggreeneva) August 27, 2019

Here's 'Hillbilly Elegy' author J.D. Vance embracing the white supremacist Great Replacement theory, raising alarms over the birth rates of "our people."

Meanwhile, Ron Howard is currently directing a film based on Vance's book.https://t.co/N7pNvPqBKp pic.twitter.com/pAkHuQGiBK

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) August 27, 2019

Works every time.

And part of the problem here is that long before WaPo issues a correction and apology, the shards of glass get everywhere: pic.twitter.com/sycjbUdlgi

— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) August 27, 2019

This is quite common on here, btw. Ignorant ppl who 'cover' this stuff but don't know that it's obviously not true spread this stuff, out of context, and it just becomes a Thing. A whole section of our industry is just basically ppl doing this.

— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) August 27, 2019

Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional text and tweets.

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Update:

Let’s all give the Washington Post a big hand, ladies and gentlemen:

The Post has now taken down the conclusion of the op-ed.

— Ramesh Ponnuru (@RameshPonnuru) August 27, 2019

Here’s the editor’s note they’ve tacked onto the end:

Couldn’t even muster anything resembling an apology, WaPo? Really?

Not only does that note not make up for their smear job, but removing the passage about Vance undercuts the premise of Brostoff’s despicable piece.

So I've added an update to my own post, noting that the article's new conclusion doesn't make any sense. https://t.co/DkSgItqWpo

— Ramesh Ponnuru (@RameshPonnuru) August 27, 2019

As Ramesh Ponnuru writes:

But even this new conclusion makes no sense. The smear of Vance was necessary to appear to justify the comment about the “conservative mainstream”; now the alleged justification for the comment is a remark by some white nationalist you’ve never heard of.

The Washington Post’s credibility dies in broad daylight.

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Update:

‘Just take the ‘L”: Writer of malicious hit job on Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance stands by her despicable smear https://t.co/uPvmI525QZ

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 27, 2019