WaEx: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., spent the weekend lying about the disastrous rollout of her preposterous “Green New Deal.” The Washington Post’s Fact Checker doesn’t dispute that. But it refused to give her any “Pinocchios” anyway because Trump.
No, really.
The paper has declined to flunk the congresswoman’s obvious falsehoods suggesting her House resolution is the target of a right-wing smear campaign, explaining that the president has made similarly misleading statements about the proposed bill.
That one of the newspaper’s fact-checkers would go out of his way to soften what was an clear attempt by Ocasio-Cortez and her team to lie and mislead is bad enough. It’s made worse by the fact that the author of the Post article is also one of the reporters who awarded the president two “Pinocchios” last week when he said “ one in three [female migrants] is sexually assaulted on the long journey north” because, actually, “31.4 percent of women said they were ‘sexually abused’ on the journey, not ‘sexually assaulted’ as Trump says.”
Ocasio-Cortez last week unveiled her much-anticipated “Green New Deal” proposal, which aims to remake the U.S. economy into a kinder and more environmentally friendly version of its current self. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the House resolution is absurd, especially the part where it calls for upgrading or replacing every single building in the country over a 10-year period “to achieve maximal energy efficiency, water efficiency, safety, affordability, comfort, and durability, including through electrification.”
Adding an additional layer of unintentional humor to this unintentional comedy is the fact that the congresswoman’s staff circulated bizarre “ frequently asked questions” pages last week, one of which appeared on her webpage. The FAQs contained additional ideas and proposals not found in the actual legislation co-sponsored by more than 100 Democratic lawmakers.
One FAQ made available to NPR claimed the bill’s aim is to lower fossil fuel emissions to “net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years because we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast.” The NPR FAQ as well as the FAQ that appeared on Ocasio-Cortez’s webpage boasted that the bill would provide “economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work.”
Perhaps realizing that they were making their position more difficult to defend, or take seriously, Ocasio-Cortez’s staff wisely pulled the FAQ from her webpage. more
A congenital liar 1/3 of Hillary’s age…
The FUTURE of the democrat party!
She can walk right into the van without being tossed and losin’ a Manolo Blahnik pump.
*Actually carries hot sauce in her Sac de Jour Small Crocodile-Embossed $3150 purse…
WAPO, fuck…
I won’t let my dog shit on a WAPO.
WAPO was degenerate shit 30 years ago. 35 fucking years ago. I’m 42 and WAPO sucked for as long as I could read.
Even their comics sucked.
And their Weekender section… Do you like Opera, and violent gay secks.
I don’t like opera, outside of the Opern Intermezzo, and I don’t go for any kind, violent, or otherwise, of gay secks.
This squeaky-voiced Soros puppet needs to get back behind a bar and work for a living again.
The story busting bezos for spreading around pics of his dick is karma for his complete corruptuon of the wapo.
They were small pics, we hear.
“They came for the listicle-writers, and I said nothing because I was a fact-checker…”
The old Soviet Union had a series of five years plans, and Ocasio Cortez is proposing a Green New Deal ten year plan. This means that the GND is twice as good as the former Soviet Union plans for peace, prosperity and justice for all.
Also, it means that a Democrat controlled government will likely imprison or shoot people half as fast as the Soviet Union under the GND. Hey, this is basic math, people.
In the “fact” checker’s defense: the “facts”, as well as Pinocchio’s nose, must be measured by the “Bezos”. Which is the length of Jeff Bezos’ … um … deciderer. Which changes. According to the weather. Or, at least, the cold.
@Wyatt, Insensitive Progressive Jerk February 13, 2019 at 8:45 am
> Hey, this is basic math, people.
A quibble:
Two concurrent five year plans are five times as good as one five year plan.
Two series of concurrent five year plans are ten times as good as two five year plans.