As Twitchy told you, some liberal members of the media are trying to put the socialist toothpaste back in the tube, urging Democrats to “maybe slow their roll” on trying to make Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez the future of their party.
Barring a visit from SMOD, Ocasio-Cortez will win her congressional race in November. But she won’t do it without getting a lot more cuts and bruises along the way. And one of those bruises will have been left by PolitiFact:
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— Share the Facts (@sharethefact) July 18, 2018
Dang. When you’ve lost PolitiFact …
womp womp pic.twitter.com/X9RPCiLLrH
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) July 19, 2018
Cue sad trombone.
I don’t understand the rating system here. “Pants on Fire” is a term conceptually wedded to lying. But she was just wrong about this.
— Berny Belvedere (@bernybelvedere) July 19, 2018
In colloquialism yes, but on Politifact it’s just about accuracy. There’s controversy over how they categorize things, but pants on fire is for things that are so incorrect that everyone is dumber for having heard it. pic.twitter.com/cFol5mWK6F
— James Garcia Alver (@JayAlver) July 19, 2018
Almost as dumb as Ocasio-Cortez is for thinking it!
Not a good way to start out: pic.twitter.com/ads3HBSUZI
— DanYULE Pope (@danieljpope_atx) July 19, 2018
https://twitter.com/Keexzus/status/1020001948605374464
Love it. Chuckle every time I read it.
— Dana Jean (@DanaJean21) July 19, 2018
But not everyone finds Ocasio-Cortez’s flaming stupidity as hilarious as the rest of us.
And defense coming from left is “so what.” Get ready for tons of that. https://t.co/TKJ8dJpslU
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 19, 2018
Oh, don’t worry. It’s already started:
https://twitter.com/WayharshTai1/status/1019691111323918336
This is aggravating to see. Politifact usually does a good job keeping both republicans and democrats in check, but this is more cherry picking and stating facts that aren’t relevant to the larger issue. There’s nothing wrong with this article, but it’s enforcing the wrong idea.
— Joe Venafro (@JoeVenafro) July 18, 2018
There’s a matter of interpretation here. Obviously if you go plainly by what she said then there’s no correlation, but I think her larger point was that unemployment isn’t necessarily the biggest issue and is used a “look how great we’re doing” scapegoat.
— Joe Venafro (@JoeVenafro) July 18, 2018
Her choice of words was poor, no defense there, but she’s not wrong that employment for a lot of the blue collar working class often times means working extended grueling hours for low wages, while the cost of living skyrockets across the country.
— Joe Venafro (@JoeVenafro) July 18, 2018
The unfortunate thing is that some of very same critics who will lambast this as evidence of profound ignorance on her part will then take a most charitable reading of certain factual inaccuracies proffered by other politicians about their own dubious economic positions.
— Bizarro Trump (@rrrrrrrealTrump) July 18, 2018
Grading a clearly not intended to be data/objectively oriented statement as pants on fire when it jives with the experience of so many people. It feels like false would have been perhaps a more accurate rating.
— Matthew Beatty (@beattyml1) July 18, 2018
Especially given she is speaking to a smaller subgroup of people for whom this statement may be closer to the data for their demographic.
— Matthew Beatty (@beattyml1) July 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/TouchOfStupid/status/1019692647554793472
Seriously? She's not stating a fact, she's making a point about how, although people do have jobs, they're still having to supplement to make ends meet. Kinda harsh @PolitiFact!
— Just Karen?♀️ (@NOLAyat) July 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/YukioMX/status/1019672812028612608
Oh please, these stats are invalid bc they are nationwide, not focused on her district, which has a large casual-work and cash-only sector. Also, folks working <40 hrs/wk don’t count as “unemployed” but they are indeed struggling.
“Everyone” knows Politifact has a R-wing bias.
— Prescott Perez-Fox (@scottperezfox) July 19, 2018
Right-wing bias? PolitiFact? El. Oh. El. Go ahead and go with that, chumps.
Why are so many people trying to explain what she means or make excuses for her and her lack of the facts? She tried to sound as though she knew what she was talking about and proved she didn't!!! She'll make a GREAT politician!
— Scott (@Scott74992590) July 19, 2018
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