If you missed it Saturday, read this to see just how far her advisors went in BSing about the infamous line on the GND fact sheet about “economic security” for those who are “unwilling to work.” It takes stones to go on the other party’s favorite cable news network and insist to their faces that that document was a fabrication rather than something that was posted on Ocasio-Cortez’s congressional website.
And it takes elephant-sized stones to amplify that lie to your three million Twitter followers, which is what AOC herself did when she retweeted the clip without comment.
WaPo can’t muster a single “Pinocchio” for this out-and-out falsehood.
“Point is, the real one is our submitted resolution, H.Res. 109,” she tweeted. Ocasio-Cortez also said: “There are multiple doctored GND resolutions and FAQs floating around. There was also a draft version that got uploaded + taken down. There’s also draft versions floating out there.”
The statements and FAQs at issue were not doctored. They were all produced by her staff. Now, Ocasio-Cortez is saying they were “draft” versions not ready for prime time…
There’s a case to be made that the criticism about ending airplanes and cows was a stretch to begin with, since the resolution didn’t mention any of that and the FAQs were not definitive on those points. But Ocasio-Cortez has now disowned the FAQs and the statements that went beyond the resolution. The line about providing for people “unwilling to work” has been walked back completely. So we won’t be awarding any Pinocchios in this kerfuffle.
My pal Karl translates that final paragraph: “She said it, but then ran away from criticism, therefore she didn’t say it.” Or, in Ben Shapiro’swords, “so long as you withdraw your originally controversial claim, and then lie about it, we will pretend the originally controversial claim didn’t exist.”
WaPo went on to ding Trump too in the same piece for “misrepresenting the Green New Deal as the plan is currently written.” Why toss what he said into a fact-check about Ocasio-Cortez’s people misleading the public? Eh, to keep her rabid fans out of their hair, I assume.
Ah. So the NEW rule is if you get caught lying or saying something stupid and you “walk it back”, it never happened? No doubt we’ll get to test that discipline on a Republican sometime soon.
She said her lies about her lies were lies, so there were no lies. Sheesh.
@Deplorable Me: The bright side AOC has single handed put a stop to blonde and pollock jokes. Only problem you really cant find out if she really said during the SOTU speech, she hated the chant U S A cause the adults were spelling so she wouldnt know what was going on.
@Deplorable Me: How bout DT’S -assertion there were 10 thou at his rally–E.P. fire dept says 65OO.
How bout his claim E.P was one of America’s most lawless cities before the wall constructed 10 years ago–absolutely false—one of the safest.
Repub. mayor disputed DT’S claims wall made city safer—–Trump blasted him
@Richard Wheeler:
6500 INSIDE. Thousands more outside.
https://www.facebook.com/JustSayNoToBeto/photos/a.617551488628962/771351496582293/?type=3&theater
Nope. Not false.
https://nypost.com/2018/01/13/we-already-have-a-border-wall-and-it-works/