A conservative columnist at Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal is facing backlash after criticizing the vice president. Kimberley A. Strassel’s explosive July 16 column, titled “President Vance Goes AWOL,” accused JD Vance of abandoning Republicans at a critical juncture to promote his recently published memoir. Strassel fired back that Vance wasn't in the delivery room when she wrote her column—he was on Joe Rogan's podcast. A spokesperson for the vice president told the Daily Beast that Strassel’s narrative is “bulls--t.”“This is factually inaccurate. Vance’s media blitz to promote his second book, Communion, about his conversion to Catholicism, kicked off with an appearance on The View on June 16.