Tea at Trianon: JD Vance SHATTERS Stephanopoulos’ Narrative

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Monday, October 13, 2025

JD Vance SHATTERS Stephanopoulos’ Narrative

From Overton News:

By this point, it was clear Stephanopoulos was floundering.
He attempted one last push — going right back to the same well that had already run dry — trying to force Vance to confirm the tape story.
But Vance saw it coming and shut it down decisively.
STEPHANOPOULOS:
“So you don’t…what was caught on the tape, you’re saying you don’t know whether or not he kept that money?”
Vance used the moment to expose a broader truth — the media often prioritizes partisan attacks over the real struggles Americans face.
Then he dropped the best line of the interview.
Vance said this type of smear attempt is EXACTLY why trust in the MSM is cratering, including the ratings of the very network that he was speaking from, ABC.
VANCE:
“I don’t know what tape you are referring to, George. I saw media reports that Tom Homan accepted a bribe. There is no evidence of that.”
“And here is, George, why fewer and fewer people watch your program and why you’re losing credibility — because you’re talking for now five minutes with the Vice President of the United States about this story regarding Tom Homan, a story that I’ve read about but I don’t even know the video that you’re talking about.”
He shifted seamlessly to the bigger picture, reiterating real issues facing Americans:
“Meanwhile, low-income women can’t get food because the Democrats and Chuck Schumer have shut down the government. Right now we’re trying to figure out how to pay our troops because Chuck Schumer has shut down the government.”
“You are focused on a bogus story, insinuating criminal wrongdoing against a guy who has done nothing wrong instead of focusing on the fact our country is struggling because our government is shut down.”
“Let’s talk about the real issues, George. I think the American people would benefit much more from that than you going down some weird left-wing rabbit hole, where the facts show that Tom Homan didn’t engage in any criminal wrongdoing.”
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