An X post which falsely claimed that JD Vance admitted to having sex in his autobiography went viral.But it was a false claim. There was no such claim made in the book. But people readily believed in the false news because, Oliver explained, nobody read that book and it was incredibly easy to believe. “If you ask me to play Two Truths and a Lie with this man, before he even open his mouth, I shout, ‘The truth is he f***s his couch!’ I’ve never seen someone with more couch-f***r energy.”
“He looks like he watched the Tom Cruise-Oprah interview and was jealous of Tom’s shoes. If you told me that his first celebrity crush was the plastic sofa from Everybody Loves Raymond, I’d believe you without question. If you told me the reason you find coins in between couch cushions is because J.D. Vance always leaves a tip, I’d be like, yeah, yeah, that sounds right,” Oliver said.
A Norwegian media outlet reported the news of JD Vance and couch sex rumor with a headline “Hadde ikke sex med sofa”. John Oliver said the headline sounds like a sign they had to put up in IKEA after JD visited too much.
The fact check report and the taking down of it by Associated Press did not evade Last Week Tonight. AP ran a factcheck with the title ‘No, JD Vance did not have sex with a couch’ and later took it down citing that the story didn’t go through the AP’s standard editing process.
“No s*** it didn’t because there’s an obvious problem with that original headline,” Oliver said explaining that no one can say Vance did not have sex with a couch definitively. The fact check could only say that he did not write anything about it in his book — as it was claimed by the viral post. JD Vance never officially denied it, John Oliver said.
The Last Week Tonight reached out to Vance and asked the same question, Oliver said. “They hung up on us, which is, and this is critical, not a ‘no’, is it?”.
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