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Michael Zuckerman: J.D. Vance's 'sanewashing' of Haitians' pet-eating scandal is an act of grotesque public misconduct

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J.D. Vance's campaign knew rumors of Haitians eating people's house pets were false, says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: New revelations should prompt reconsideration of one of this campaign's ugliest moments: Vance 's defense of the pet-eating fabrication on CNN last Sunday .

He says if it's okay to level such a despicable smear at a vulnerable minority population, then what sort of lying and propaganda about an exposed, assailable, encircled out-group would not be justified?.

Clark County , Ohio , has a small number of new cases of TB and HIV cases, but that's not the case of HIV or TB .

Clark County had seven new cases per 100,000 people in 2022 , compared to the current rate of HIV in Ohio .

Clark : The Springfield pet-eating lie is best seen as a cautionary tale, an extremely harrowing one.

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informal

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English

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50

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