As Twitchy told you earlier, the Washington Post’s Dave Weigel thoroughly beclowned himself trying to spin away Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal FAQ disaster.
The whole "Green New Deal will outlaw cars and planes" thing, which is false, is now firmly embedded in GOP messaging. Probably would have been the message anyway, but the botched FAQ really teed it up. Here's Liz Cheney today: pic.twitter.com/IzGJ1DmOxL
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) February 12, 2019
The FAQ wasn’t “botched,” of course. But the facts don’t actually matter to the fact checkers. That’s why Dave’s getting an assist from WaPo Fact Checker reporter Sal Rizzo. You know, the guy who decided that AOC’s FAQ “kerfuffle” was “too messy for Pinocchios.”
Here’s what Rizzo had to say today:
This piece of the FAQ was framed as:
1) Things we CAN'T do over 10 years: Ban air travel and cow farts.
2) Things we CAN do: plant trees, invest in renewable energy and high-speed rail, etc.https://t.co/scTjMObjRWhttps://t.co/wpdsMgXwLJ— Sal Rizzo (@rizzoTK) February 12, 2019
Lay down, Sal. You’re liable to pull a muscle reaching like that.
Nice to see that WaPo is full-court press hackery for AOC
— MVP_nobody (@MVP_nobody) February 12, 2019
“Won’t be able to fully eliminate” implies a reduction goal. So was it a reduction goal or was someone stupid enough to put an ambiguously worded joke in a legislative FAQ? There is no third option.
— James Garcia Alver (@JayAlver) February 12, 2019
Also, things they want to do, ban air travel and combustible engines.
— ParksDept (@parks_dept) February 12, 2019
Another bang-up job by the WaPo Fact Checker team!
The job of a WaPo fact-checker is to explain why Dems didn't really mean the stupid things they said. https://t.co/LzbxpISckT
— Currently between fraudulent suspensions (@jtLOL) February 12, 2019
When a Republican says something true, it's being said for the wrong reasons. When a Democrat says something false, it's being said for the right reasons.
That's "fact-checking." You're a "fact-checker."
— Currently between fraudulent suspensions (@jtLOL) February 12, 2019