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Ocasio-Cortez claims have fact-checkers working overtime
foxnews.com ^ | Adam Shaw

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?”

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: aoc; factcheckers
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

She’s a line-jumper from nowhere who hasn’t paid her dues. The party is going to remind her who is boss and she doesn’t set the party line, nor does she deserve the coverage.


21 posted on 08/14/2018 10:55:49 AM PDT by henkster (Monsters from the Id.)
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To: WKUHilltopper
I think you didn't read the article....

Or you did..and didn't understand it.

I had to read the article to understand the headline....

22 posted on 08/14/2018 10:58:38 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: T. P. Pole

KraKra eyes!!


23 posted on 08/14/2018 11:00:59 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: RoosterRedux; JLAGRAYFOX; bitt; hoosiermama; NFHale; vette6387; Jane Long; mazda77; SkyPilot; ...

Anyone wonder what her IQ is?


24 posted on 08/14/2018 11:03:37 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: RoosterRedux; All

When article says “fact-checkers,” does it mean Democratic pundits who are trying to spin what she says to limit the damage?


25 posted on 08/14/2018 11:09:12 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Billthedrill

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.


And you shouldn’t need a degree in economics either, which O-C supposedly has.


26 posted on 08/14/2018 11:09:46 AM PDT by samtheman (LetÂ’s elect as many Republicans as possible in 2018)
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To: RoosterRedux

She is really that dumb.


27 posted on 08/14/2018 11:11:47 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Her IQ is probably the same as her shoe size


28 posted on 08/14/2018 11:14:33 AM PDT by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: RoosterRedux

Lies with no truth, no kidding.


29 posted on 08/14/2018 11:18:03 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: clamper1797

She needs to be made the face and brains of the RAT Party along with Madd Maxine.


30 posted on 08/14/2018 11:21:29 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: RightGeek

Somebody ask her what was her opinion of Teddy the Drunk’s waitress sandwich with him and Senator Dodd.


31 posted on 08/14/2018 11:27:06 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (politics)
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To: shanover
She's a big talking bartender--oops, make that mixologist.

She could get away with it in the bar probably because her patrons were also talking smack and having a big ole time.

Now she's actually being listened to by sober adults.

32 posted on 08/14/2018 11:34:02 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Fact checkers working overtime... Yes, for her because she’s a nutcase...


33 posted on 08/14/2018 1:18:40 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: T. P. Pole

“Easy-on-the-eyes if you ignore the eyes.”

Don’t forget the teeth.
Any horse in the world would be proud of those teeth.


34 posted on 08/14/2018 3:13:28 PM PDT by oldvirginian (American by birth, Southern by the Grace of God and Virginian because Jesus loves me)
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