Ocasio-Cortez Comes Unhinged After Being Fact Checked
Our favorite socialist is starting to crack under the pressure.
Earlier she got in a twitter fight with CNN’s Chris Cizilla and now she’s melting down over being fact checked by Politifact, the Washington Post and others, the Washington Free Beacon reports:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) on Monday blasted multiple fact-checking media sources for their coverage of her statements, saying, “I say true things all the time.”
Ocasio-Cortez, who was sworn into office last Thursday, is evidently not happy about the scrutiny she’s received from fact-checkers.
In a Twitter thread, she targeted the Washington Post and Politifact, saying “false equivalency [and] bias creeps in” with their fact checks.
“For example, it looks like @PolitiFact has fact-checked Sarah Huckabee Sanders and myself the *same* amount of times: 6. She’s been serving for almost 2 years. I’ve served 4 days,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “Why is she fact-checked so little? Is she adhering to some standard we don’t know about?”
In one tweet, Ocasio-Cortez linked to a Salon article from last month that highlighted the Washington Post’s “false equivalence” of rating her “as bad as” President Donald Trump.
The example the author used was from early December when the Post ran a lengthy fact check on her tweet about how $21 trillion in “Pentagon accounting errors” could have paid for 66 percent of the Medicare-for-all proposal.
Salon also called the Post’s headline “blunt” and said she simply “failed to properly capture the fact that the missing Pentagon money included both inputs and outlays.”
She also went after Politifact for giving officials’ statements “true” ratings frequently, listing Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D., N.Y.) as an example.
“I say true things all the time – I’d hope most do. When does Politifact choose to rate true statements? Is there a guide? I’d be happy to repost if there is,” she said
Facts are facts, America. We should care about getting things right. Yet standards of who gets fact-checked, how often + why are unclear.
This is where false equivalency+bias creeps in, allowing climate deniers to be put on par w/scientists, for example.https://t.co/87c6kVzIuI
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 7, 2019
For example, it looks like @PolitiFact has fact-checked Sarah Huckabee Sanders and myself the *same* amount of times: 6.
She’s been serving for almost 2 years. I’ve served 4 days.
Why is she fact-checked so little? Is she adhering to some standard we don’t know about?
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 7, 2019
Or why did @washingtonpost give my confusing tweet on military accounting offsets the same “Pinocchios” as Trump’s flat denial of how many Americans died in Puerto Rico?
These are legitimate questions not intended to attack. Who makes these decisions? How? Is there a rubric?
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 7, 2019
Another question for @politifact: some officials’ statements (ex. Andrew Cuomo) get rated “true” frequently.
I say true things all the time – I’d hope most do. When does Politifact choose to rate true statements?
Is there a guide? I’d be happy to repost if there is.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 7, 2019
This is where I’m seeing those numbers of checks:
SHS: https://t.co/A6KsAjKnbu
AOC: https://t.co/1OsNvlqqFI
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 7, 2019
This is helpful! Thank you.
I do think it is important to point out that there is still admitted discretion: “we select the most newsworthy+significant ones.”
That means no real standard. So it’s still fair to ask why a controversial WH Press Sec is getting let off so easy. https://t.co/VqwzfPoCVI
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 7, 2019
Fact-checking is critically important. It’s not always fun. But that’s okay! It pushes me to be better.
It’s important that if fact-checkers are referees, everyone know the rules – and those rules be as clear + fair as possible for all to play.
Thank you for the work you do. https://t.co/LGfd6pOReX
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 7, 2019
This is why we question, by the way – because women, people of color, immigrants, LGBT+, & the poor have been treated unfairly in the past. And when many of the decision-making rooms aren’t as diverse as they should be, communities fairly ask: “is it happening to us, again?” https://t.co/oiqB39nLYm
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 7, 2019
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the gift that keeps on giving…for Republicans!
http://dailyheadlines.net/ocasio-cortez-comes...M%20Dh.net
Our favorite socialist is starting to crack under the pressure.
Earlier she got in a twitter fight with CNN’s Chris Cizilla and now she’s melting down over being fact checked by Politifact, the Washington Post and others, the Washington Free Beacon reports:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) on Monday blasted multiple fact-checking media sources for their coverage of her statements, saying, “I say true things all the time.”
Ocasio-Cortez, who was sworn into office last Thursday, is evidently not happy about the scrutiny she’s received from fact-checkers.
In a Twitter thread, she targeted the Washington Post and Politifact, saying “false equivalency [and] bias creeps in” with their fact checks.
“For example, it looks like @PolitiFact has fact-checked Sarah Huckabee Sanders and myself the *same* amount of times: 6. She’s been serving for almost 2 years. I’ve served 4 days,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “Why is she fact-checked so little? Is she adhering to some standard we don’t know about?”
In one tweet, Ocasio-Cortez linked to a Salon article from last month that highlighted the Washington Post’s “false equivalence” of rating her “as bad as” President Donald Trump.
The example the author used was from early December when the Post ran a lengthy fact check on her tweet about how $21 trillion in “Pentagon accounting errors” could have paid for 66 percent of the Medicare-for-all proposal.
Salon also called the Post’s headline “blunt” and said she simply “failed to properly capture the fact that the missing Pentagon money included both inputs and outlays.”
She also went after Politifact for giving officials’ statements “true” ratings frequently, listing Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D., N.Y.) as an example.
“I say true things all the time – I’d hope most do. When does Politifact choose to rate true statements? Is there a guide? I’d be happy to repost if there is,” she said
Facts are facts, America. We should care about getting things right. Yet standards of who gets fact-checked, how often + why are unclear.
This is where false equivalency+bias creeps in, allowing climate deniers to be put on par w/scientists, for example.https://t.co/87c6kVzIuI
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 7, 2019
For example, it looks like @PolitiFact has fact-checked Sarah Huckabee Sanders and myself the *same* amount of times: 6.
She’s been serving for almost 2 years. I’ve served 4 days.
Why is she fact-checked so little? Is she adhering to some standard we don’t know about?
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 7, 2019
Or why did @washingtonpost give my confusing tweet on military accounting offsets the same “Pinocchios” as Trump’s flat denial of how many Americans died in Puerto Rico?
These are legitimate questions not intended to attack. Who makes these decisions? How? Is there a rubric?
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 7, 2019
Another question for @politifact: some officials’ statements (ex. Andrew Cuomo) get rated “true” frequently.
I say true things all the time – I’d hope most do. When does Politifact choose to rate true statements?
Is there a guide? I’d be happy to repost if there is.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 7, 2019
This is where I’m seeing those numbers of checks:
SHS: https://t.co/A6KsAjKnbu
AOC: https://t.co/1OsNvlqqFI
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 7, 2019
This is helpful! Thank you.
I do think it is important to point out that there is still admitted discretion: “we select the most newsworthy+significant ones.”
That means no real standard. So it’s still fair to ask why a controversial WH Press Sec is getting let off so easy. https://t.co/VqwzfPoCVI
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 7, 2019
Fact-checking is critically important. It’s not always fun. But that’s okay! It pushes me to be better.
It’s important that if fact-checkers are referees, everyone know the rules – and those rules be as clear + fair as possible for all to play.
Thank you for the work you do. https://t.co/LGfd6pOReX
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 7, 2019
This is why we question, by the way – because women, people of color, immigrants, LGBT+, & the poor have been treated unfairly in the past. And when many of the decision-making rooms aren’t as diverse as they should be, communities fairly ask: “is it happening to us, again?” https://t.co/oiqB39nLYm
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 7, 2019
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the gift that keeps on giving…for Republicans!
http://dailyheadlines.net/ocasio-cortez-comes...M%20Dh.net
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