As we told you earlier, Andrew Lawrence from Media Matters flagged a clip of Tucker Carlson’s interview with Robert Hockett, a policy adviser for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Lawrence tweeted that Hockett’s interview with Carlson “debunks all the conservative media lies,” but did it? Short answer: No.
Here’s a brief transcript of one part of the interview:
Carlson: How will we ever pay people who are, quote, unwilling to work?
Hockett: Uh, we never would, right? And AOC has never said anything like that, right? I think you’re referring to some sort of document that some, I think some doctored document that somebody other than us has been circulating.
Carlson: Oh I thought that came right from… that was the backgrounder from her office is my understanding.
Hockett: No, no. She’s actually tweeted it out to laugh at it if you look at her latest tweets. It seems that apparently some Republicans have put it out there.
Oh, really? In that case, NPR must also be part of the Republican cabal spreading what Ocasio-Cortez’s adviser said was “doctored” parts of the proposal:
Also @NPR hosts a document on their website containing the "unwilling to work" line. Is this "doctored"?https://t.co/JgMakTefLQ pic.twitter.com/41s3Mlxgie
— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) February 9, 2019
That doesn’t look “doctored” to us.
No it’s not. pic.twitter.com/kIKzY6uB4o
— Tyler Hanson (@TylerHanson53) February 9, 2019
We’ll eagerly await a media fact check of claims made by AOC’s adviser.
Have any fact checkers gotten around to this one yet or are they still just soaking up that super bowl ad? https://t.co/6ah7hYsu9Q
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) February 9, 2019
Would love @GlennKesslerWP to check this segment against Jeryl’s caps.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) February 9, 2019
It was in there. I read the whole thing (and laughed out loud) the day it came out. It was in there.
— Laughlin671 (@laughlin671) February 9, 2019
Everything he said was a lie. https://t.co/MYS7hWUcCa pic.twitter.com/iNgFGxmitT
— Dagan Brentley (@Dbrentley) February 9, 2019
Also: WHY take it down?
— Boris_Badenoff (@Boris_Badenoff) February 9, 2019
Maybe because somebody knew it was getting mercilessly mocked.
I really wish someone asked AOC to elaborate on what is meant by this. https://t.co/EXhjXuMIP7
— yxng xehanort ? (@Isaac__Davidson) February 9, 2019
They’re now trying to claim it never existed and are using their own self-beclownment to try and mock those who merely pointed it out.
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