*POPCORN* Politico calls BS on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's accusation of fake news

Doug P. | 11:46 AM on December 19, 2018

As Twitchy told you yesterday, Representative-Elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took issue with a Politico article about her:

One disappointment about DC is the gossip that masquerades as “reporting.”

This story has:
– Not a SINGLE named or verifiable source
– Only ONE on-the-record comment, which is a denial.

My dad had a name for junk articles like this:
“Birdcage lining.”
https://t.co/kIBMM2eiWb

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) December 18, 2018

For the record, this is the second @politico article about me in a short period of time with *0* named sources to back claims containing false information.

Their articles are printed + distributed to **Congressional offices** – w/ no named sources.

It’s really unfortunate.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) December 18, 2018

But for some reason, the MSM didn’t seem as alarmed by that assault on America’s brave guardians of the First Amendment as they would have been if it had come from Trump. However, Politico defended their story this way:

Statement from Politico

"Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez does not specify in her tweet what she believes is incorrect with the piece, nor has she or anyone from her staff reached out to our team for a correction. We stand by our reporting."https://t.co/84BJT2kdif https://t.co/tC82Pu1WPn

— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) December 19, 2018

This is the Pallone story that @Ocasio2018 is referring to in her last tweet. It is, of course, 100% accurate, and her chief of staff is quoted in it. Merry Christmas!!!https://t.co/Pg7kcEKyhi https://t.co/ujXZKwS3E2

— John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) December 18, 2018