Posted on 12/30/2018 3:49:13 AM PST by grundle
This is a link to a tweet by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
And this is a link to an archive of the tweet.
Here’s a screen capture of the tweet:
The tweet states (the bolding is mine):
You were forced out of the Trump Admin for saying white supremacists were “not the problem” days before Neo-Nazis in Charlottesville killed 3 people.
Pretty sure we’re on the right side of history if you’re my opposition.
This is not about atrocity. It’s about how we get there.
Three people?
Where did Ocasio-Cortez get the idea that three people were killed at that event?
The Washington Post, the New York Times, Associated Press, Reuters, NPR, PBS, ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN all reported that the death toll was one, and that the name of that person is Heather Heyer.
Where exactly does Ocasio-Cortez get her news from?
Of course, this is not nearly first time that I have reported on Ocasio-Cortez being ignorant of commonly known, basic facts that have been widely reported in the news.
She doesn’t know that the judiciary is one of the three branches of the federal government.
She thinks the U.S. has 500 million people.
She thinks there is no upper-middle class in America.
She thinks you’ll never need a funeral if we adopt single payer health care.
She doesn’t know the difference between the defense budget and a one year increase in the defense budget.
She thinks the unemployment rate distinguishes between people who have one job and people who have two jobs.
She thinks the Constitutional requirement for the President to be at least 35 years old only applies to men.
Anyone who regularly reads mainstream news sources would know the true facts about all of those things.
So I really do wonder where it is that Ocasio-Cortez gets her news from.
THIS IS TRUTH!
Stupid blogs probably.
She pulls out her facts from her self annoited bag of rainbows unicorns and good intentions. Of course to the rest of the world it looks like she is pulling them out of her a**.
New-age way of looking at things. There is no such thing as objective “fact.” Only emotions are authentic. One person killed, three people killed - whatever. The emotional import is conveyed - that’s what is “real.”
Antithesis of Western, fact-based inquiry - but hey, we gotta be multi-cultural.
This woman is evidence of no fixing stupit.
Most likely...I remember the crash but not the circumstances.
Its a stretch to include those deaths...but in terms of getting her message out there, claiming three dead instead of one brings her lots of attention.
....when she’s not taking a s*it she’s pulling numbers out of her ***...
Barack Obama, caught up in the fervor of a campaign speech Tuesday, drastically overstated the Kansas tornadoes death toll, saying 10,000 had died. The death toll was 11.-- May 2, 2007
Well, you have to give her credit. She’s persistent and undeterred, no matter how absurd most of her pronouncements prove to be.
Well, you have to give her credit. She’s persistent and undeterred, no matter how absurd most of her pronouncements prove to be.
They ARE the faces of the party. And most Ds love them.
Like the rest of the dimocrapy party she pulls her facts out of her rear end...
Offset, though, by misuse of "effect." :-)
When you elect a clown, expect a circus.
My apologies to every professional clown out there for the insult.
Because the far left media included the helicopter crash.
As with ‘war’ any death gets lumped in to get a higher count.
Not everyone on the left was a communist or anarchist either.
A lie lives forever.
She’s the second coming to Obama she doesn’t have to think she just needs to smile and stand aside for Valerie.
The President will delight in fencing with PFF and K.
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