As Twitchy told you earlier, the Washington Postâs Dave Weigel thoroughly beclowned himself trying to spin away Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezâs 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
â Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) February 12, 2019
The FAQ wasnât âbotched,â of course. But the facts donât actually matter to the fact checkers. Thatâs why Daveâs getting an assist from WaPo Fact Checker reporter Sal Rizzo. You know, the guy who decided that AOCâs FAQ âkerfuffleâ was âtoo messy for Pinocchios.â
Hereâs 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/wpdsMgXwLJâ Sal Rizzo (@rizzoTK) February 12, 2019
Lay down, Sal. Youâre liable to pull a muscle reaching like that.
Nice to see that WaPo is full-court press hackery for AOC
â MVP_nobody (@MVP_nobody) February 12, 2019
âWonât be able to fully eliminateâ 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.
â James Garcia Alver (@JayAlver) February 12, 2019
Also, things they want to do, ban air travel and combustible engines.
â 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
â 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."
â Currently between fraudulent suspensions (@jtLOL) February 12, 2019