Posted on 08/14/2018 9:43:44 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has excited the liberal base with her media blitz touting Medicare-for-all, the elimination of ICE and more.
But the Democrat's rapid-fire claims about the state of the economy and other issues have fact-checkers scrambling to provide a reality check.
The Washington Post was the latest to put her myriad claims under the microscope.
The newspaper took issue, for instance, with her claim that unemployment is low “because everyone has two jobs.” The Post shot this down, noting the number of people working two jobs is down from the recession -- and has remained steady at around 5 percent in recent years.
Other claims it summarily dismissed include a May 30 interview statement that ICE is “required to fill 34,000 beds with detainees every single night.” Both the Post and Politifact note that this is an “urban legend” and that ICE was only required to maintain that many beds -- not fill them.
Additionally, the Post called her out for saying a recent study found Medicare-for-all would cut health expenditures, when it found the plan would raise government expenditures by $32.6 trillion over 10 years. A separate fact check by The Associated Press aimed at this claim, made by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., notes it only cuts spending if hospitals accept Medicare-based payments of 40 percent less for those who have private insurance.
Some claims didn’t warrant a check, including one appearance on CNN where she asked, “Why aren’t we incorporating the cost of all the funeral expenses of those who died because they can’t afford access to health care?”
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You mean to fact check the crazy things she says?
Turning on her so soon?
There must be another Socialist even FURTHER to the Left that the Enemy Media wants installed in her place.
If she keeps this up, she may lose the seat she is so confident of winning.
As opposed to the Fraud’s “fact checkers”, who twisted every lie their god uttered into “truth”?
“Ocasio-Cortez claims have fact-checkers working overtime”
LOL!! Well, you need to fire them then. You wouldn’t know a fact if it bit you on the a$$. You’re a babbling idiot.
It's a little more fundamental than that. We're talking unemployment figures here, not number of jobs filled. If you have one job, one person is employed. If you have two or three jobs, you still count as one person employed and the unemployment figures don't change. They really shouldn't need a "fact checker" to figure that one out.
“There must be another Socialist even FURTHER to the Left that the Enemy Media wants installed in her place.”
Occasional-Cortex isn’t even smart enough to answer a Miss America puffball question about world peace.
“If you have two or three jobs, you still count as one person employed and the unemployment figures don’t change. “
And the standards used to vet the “fact-checkers”?
I think the dems should keep her as the face of their party. Despite her whacked-out ideas, limited intellect and inability to grasp fact, she’s the first easy-on-the-eyes dem since... well... nevermind.. she’s the FIRST easy-on-the-eyes dem ever.
Occasional Cortex
If this were true it would mean all of the estimated 30 million illegals in this country would be incarcerated and on their way to deportation in less than 3 years.
A bartender runs for Congress, can’t get her facts right, won’t debate anyone, and runs behind her inexperience.
And this suprises is out of a bartender WHY??
We’ll see how much that helps if anyone ever talks her into a real debate.
She’ll stammer like Obama without a prompter.
Easy-on-the-eyes if you ignore the eyes.
True.. like a Louisiana bayou at dusk, they are a bit buggy.
Her fact-checkers have a daunting task.
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