Posted on 08/07/2019 11:06:08 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Former Clinton pollster Mark Penn weighed in on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's power and influence to get 'The New York Times' to update a headline about President Trump's statement on the mass shootings in Texas and Ohio.
Penn told FOX News host Tucker Carlson:
"To actually bend after it is printed to a political faction is to cave in a way that I think will haunt them for some time to come."
"The paper wanted to please a constituency and they weren't willing to stand behind their own headline and were then willing to change for that constituency," Penn said. "That is incredible."
MARK PENN: Look. You could think that either headline was okay but the process of the headline that was factually correct and frankly was unifying after this horrifying events would then be complained about by one political faction and changed, that is an astounding development in journalism. I've never seen it.
Why don't they just run the headlines before AOC before they run them now and not get in this situation? I've never seen anything like this. I mean, that would be the way to go to avoid this kind of trouble.
CARLSON: It is incredible. Have you ever seen anybody under 30 with as much political power as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
PENN: No. It's not political power. You see, Pelosi is right. Pelosi runs the House.
But when it comes to media power, and to influence across our work culture and society, she is a phenomenon that is really quite powerful. And she could change the headline on 'The New York Times.'
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
The very tip of the tail wagging the dog. Nasty is now AOC’s beotch. I don’t like either squirrel but there’s a part of me that really smiles about this.
“The paper wanted to please a constituency and they weren’t willing to stand behind their own headline and were then willing to change for that constituency,” Penn said. “That is incredible.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez runs the Democrat Party now; no longer Pelosi and her homies.
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I studied that for a long time but I have to say I don’t get it.
I am going to bed now, but I’ll study it some more in the morning.
It’s also what you get when you alllow third world immigration to dominate your immigration flow for fifty years
yep
Occasional Cortex is famous for confusing things and people and little bits of history. Here she’s supposed to be making some feminist statement and she’s confusing Anne Frank, Helen Keller, and Amelia Earhart, among others, as well as Harriet Tubman, the black woman in the photo.
Two turds in the punch bowl...
I guess she’s a dominatrix.
The paper is appealing to a demographic that barely reads; not a good business decision...
New York Times (NYT) stock price has dropped 12.5% in last 24 hrs.
She couldn’t elect a DA.
AOC gets headlines because the Media is infatuated with her. And I submit that THIS headline is designed to obscure the fact that AOC effectively surrendered to Nancy Pelosi this past week. Her chief of staff & her communications director were effectively fired. Guess Nancy gave little Alexandria an offer she couldn’t refuse. AOC decided she likes being a congressman better than being the leader of a political movement. This article is a crappy piece of misdirection by Mark Penn.
She is the de-facto leader of the Democrat Party.
And she is a reflection of their voter base, not the cause. As the ticking clock brings Millenials closer to being a political majority this country is SOOOOOOOOO SCROOOOOOOOOD.
She helped 10-20K good jobs disappear in an adjacent constituency
not even her own. For that alone she should be marginalized
to the furthest corner of Congress
The NYT long ago lost its credibility as the “paper of record.” It no longer pretends to report news objectively. As it continues to lose popularity and, presumably, market share, it has no choice but to pander to the Left-wing crowd with the clear understanding that it must toe the line.
Thanks Marv.
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