Posted on 01/25/2019 1:15:31 PM PST by Kaslin
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez engaged in heated debates on Twitter today over the credibility of a Washington Post fact check article about her. Here’s what you need to know.
What happened?
Glenn Kessler, fact check columnist for The Washington Post, published an article Thursday about Ocasio-Cortez. In it, the liberal media personality criticized the representative’s statements about the living wage. He wrote in the piece that there is not “a vast majority” of Americans who don’t earn a living wage, despite Ocasio-Cortez’s claims. He also pointed out that both Walmart and Amazon pay workers above the minimum wage, in contradiction to the representative's claims.
When debunking this particular claim, Kessler linked to an online paper from the Mackinac Center, a research organization focused on promoting free market enterprise and limited government. The paper was written by Jason Furman, the former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under the Obama administration.
“Even if Ocasio-Cortez were right about the minimum wage,” wrote Kessler. “Her contention that those companies are benefiting from a wealth transfer is dubious. Economic theory generally assumes all costs and benefits of labor-related taxes and benefits are borne by labor — i.e., the worker, not the employer. So wages would be largely unaffected if taxes went up or public assistance went up. And the worker would still get paid the same, even if they had to carry the burden of new taxes or received enhanced benefits.”
From Tweet to Heat
Ocasio-Cortez linked to a now hidden tweet from Andrew Perez, political reporter for the research organization MapLight, who focus on how money plays a role in politics, according to their website. Along with the link, she shared her own thoughts on Kessler’s piece.
If the point of fact-checking is to enforce some objective standard, why would @GlennKesslerWP use a Walmart-funded think tank as reference material for wage fairness?
That’s like citing the foxes to fact-check the hens.
Here’s 4 Geppettos for your contested Pinocchios ???????????????? https://t.co/uERpcjqvwT— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 24, 2019
Kessler responded to Ocasio-Cortez in his own tweet. He pointed out that Furman wrote the piece and explained that he linked to the paper for context about “basic economics.”
Check the name of the author: Jason Furman, chairman of Council of Economic Advisers under Obama. He's someone I have known for 20+ years and he is simply citing some basic economics. I included the link only because his discussion of the economics was detailed and thorough.— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 24, 2019
Ocasio-Cortez retorted, saying that many people who go into government are only interested in obtaining status and money from lobbyists.
Revolving-door politics doesn’t care what admin a person worked for.
The truth is, many folks come to govmnt to collect a title, & leave to collect a lobbyist check.
WaPo itself touched on this by covering the Harvard Orientation.
You’re legitimizing that by citing this study. https://t.co/wTsgwRu8vf— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 25, 2019
That’s when Daniel Drezner, a professor at The Fletcher School and a Washinton Post contributor for Post Everything on Friday, went to Twitter to defend Furman.
"It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it is the arrogance that ignorance imparts."
The liberals(and some cuckservatives) have compared her to Trump and even Reagan.
But they forget that Reagan and Trump succeeded in the real world long before they entered politics and both dealt with real world issues before they became president.
And both had a very hostile press attacking them for every minute.
Miss AOC has gotten favorable “tailwinds” from the press from the get-go and has achieved nothing but waiting on drunks.
We will see how well she handles adversity.
I don’t believe his words need changing at all.
Sometimes it better to use a stiletto between the ribs than an blunt instrument like a club and pound the enemy over the head.
Believe me, his foes knew they had been insulted. And elegantly so.
Never in doubt.
That should be the slogan of the DemonRat Party!
Freudian slip? most ppl join gvt to “get a title” and go work for a lobbyist? like herself, perhaps?
She’s got a team of soy boys writing all her tweets. She’s Marxist Milli Vanilli.
Yep
Casio owes somebody a free order of jalapeno poppers.
“OAC is supposed to have a degree in economics, wonder what kind of dance she had to perform to get that degree?”
A lap dance.
She was educated far above her ability to absorb such education.
So instead of taking the author on when he completely discredited her “facts”, she attacks him because he sourced a former government official. Then when it was revealed he was an Obama official she attacks all government officials.
Sounds about right.
What dat?
So is she going to voluntarily leave congress after two terms, and/or forgo her paycheck?
AOC, worthless poser and virtue signal scrambler...
Ya know, I’m tiring of this bug-eyed Bolshevik.
Invoking the Hot/Crazy chart here.
She’s got terminal Sanpaku (refers to the amount of white around the eye that you can see). The more Sanpaku, the nuttier you are.
Chances are there is little she won’t do in the sack, including invite friends, circus animals, and Howard Cosell (RIP). She is probably exceptional, right up to the end when she starts speaking in sentences again.
She’s gonna be proudly ignorant for the next 20 years. She’s a Maxine-in-training.
She won’t be in politics that long.
Sounds about right."
That's almost correct. First she went after the author, then the paper cited, then the entity who posted the paper, then the author of the paper, then all of Washington and the "revolving door". Never ONCE did she defend her "facts", or refute the consensus of the bulk of the world's economists.
Boston University should revoke her diploma - she embarrasses them daily, and devalues the degrees of other graduates.
A minor in Economics. Her degree was in International Relations.
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