Sorry if there’s a lot to “unpack” in this tweet (as the kids like to say), but there’s just such of conflict of interest we can’t comprehend what comes next.
As Twitchy reported earlier, the press is still under close watch by politicians, like Sen. Brian Schatz, who told NBC News it “seriously had to cut it out.” Cut what out? Reporting on President Trump’s tweets. Will Oliver Darcy, Brian Stelter, Jim Acosta, et al. come to the defense of NBC News as its credibility is attacked by a sitting senator?
Better yet, will the collective media come to the defense of the Washington Examiner and journalist Michael Moates after Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attacked them on Twitter?
After all, Ocasio-Cortez seems to have really taken a liking to throwing around her new political power on Twitter, seeming to threaten Donald Trump Jr. with a congressional subpoena because he tweeted a meme about her.
So, will the media join together to stand up to her obvious attempts to intimidate the journalists who will be covering her in Congress?
Hey, Michael Moates (@freedom_moates)!
You can run from your misogyny, but you can’t hide.
And @dcexaminer can’t hide that they choose to publish you AND the journalist who posted a creep shot of my behind to discuss my clothing. ?? cool pic.twitter.com/jvgexhSTxD
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) December 7, 2018
Hey, we’ll have everyone know that “bitches” is perfectly acceptable language; Joy Behar apparently uses it to describe her “View” co-hosts without consequence.
See, now she's just picking fights for the hell of it.
She is so Trump, it is amazing and beautiful to see. https://t.co/jIzYduTQyu— PoliMath (@politicalmath) December 8, 2018
The thing is, Donald Trump was Donald Trump well before he was elected president; the most remarkable thing is that he hasn’t tempered his Twitter tantrums at all. For Ocasio-Cortez, they seem to be a new thing she really enjoys.
Honestly, “bitches” was poor word choice here — but what does that have to do with the Washington Examiner in this case? Looks like she’s already compiling her enemies list in the press, and everyone at the Examiner just got put on it. But we’ve been assured the press is not the enemy.
By the way, singling out an basically unknown journalist for attack by your Twitter following is DEFINITELY an attack on an independent press but a leftist is doing it so liberals don't give a fuck.
— PoliMath (@politicalmath) December 8, 2018
It’s worse than that. She picking out some random guy who had a few submissions at a publication and smearing the whole publication with it, despite his tweet having nothing to do with what they published.
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) December 8, 2018
Apparently hasn’t worked at the examiner for a year either, so it’s extra-Trumpian.
— Brud Lee (@BrudLee) December 8, 2018
Kind of amazing how she attacks media outlets almost daily and the “very concerned” (Stelter & Darcy) are somehow muted to all of it.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) December 8, 2018
Stelter and Darcy don’t have time for twitter since they’re watching Fox all day long
— Oscar Buck Wilde (@dorn_bruce) December 8, 2018
Aren’t all the Capitol Hill correspondents going to sign a letter of solidarity or something?
He attacked her first. She's responding.
— Troy Coverdale (@troycoverdale) December 8, 2018
Agreed.
How DARE he question her using the power of Government to threaten anyone who makes a meme?!
We NEED that.
?
Wait, but you don't like Trump?
Why not?
Isn't he also the unhinged lunatic spouting nonsense that you think we need in Government?— Bert Difig (@BertDifig1) December 8, 2018
Ah, but she's "punching up!"
— Spartacus (@DPRK_UN_reports) December 8, 2018
Not for long … it really looks like Ocasio-Cortez will be the congressional equivalent of Trump on Twitter, and she doesn’t seem to know it.
Amazing how she trolls people so successfully on twitter. Just ignore her
— alex ferrari (@netoborito) December 8, 2018
Related:
Uh-oh! Looks like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez might be in BIG trouble with the House Ethics Committee https://t.co/ajZt90EohM
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) December 7, 2018
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