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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said in an Instagram post that she and several other members of Congress were exploring the possibility of setting up a commission to “rein in” the media, whom she accuses of spreading “disinformation” in the lead-up to the Capitol attack.
The Democratic representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has rejected a message of support from Ted Cruz, adding the Texas senator “almost had me murdered three weeks ago”. Cruz on Thursday had. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the “Sandinista Barista,” continues to show what a dim-witted fool she is, in a recent report proving her campaign has acted very hypocritically. What she did was accuse Uber of causing SUICIDES among taxi cab drivers, and then went out and used the service tons of times for her campaign.
Man who tweeted about assassinating Ocasio-Cortez faces charges in Capitol riot Garret Miller, 34, is one of at least 119 people facing federal charges in connection with crimes committed during. Fox News reports that Federal Election Commission records show that Ocasio-Cortez's campaign used Uber repeatedl y, despite her sharp criticisms of the business model. Indeed, her campaign spent.
Since I don’t think she’s talking about stifling the New York Times or Washington Post, I wonder who she has in mind to “rein in”?
This was the same Instagram interview in which she admitted that she feared for her life during the Capitol attack, so it’s not surprising that the media would ignore her suggestion for censorship and lead with her life being in danger.
But her suggestion that the United States Congress needs to form a commission to rein in the news media has gone largely unreported,
There’s absolutely a commission that’s being discussed but it seems to be more investigating in style rather than truth and reconciliation.
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I do think that several members of Congress in some of my discussions have brought up media literacy because that is part of what happened here.
Here’s our “expert” on media literacy.
I don’t want to hear these coup-supporting GOP talk about “blue lives” ever again.
They never cared about safety.
Never cared about “law & order.”
And certainly do not care for democracy.
They only care for power, & invited chaos in an effort seize it. They are unfit to serve. pic.twitter.com/3XOVOZEolY
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 13, 2021
How easily could a government commission become a censorship board?
We’re going to have to figure out how we rein in our media environment so you can’t just spew disinformation and misinformation.
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It’s one thing to have differentiating opinions, but it’s another thing entirely to just say things that are false, so that’s something that we’re looking into.
What is “disinformation”? What is “misinformation”? What is “false”? What AOC is ignoring is that her “truth” might not be the same as your “truth.” And she wants a government commission to “investigate” which is which?
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As a practical matter, we can already envision from “lived experienced” — as a progressive might say — how sanctioning the state to adjudicate the veracity of journalism can be abused.
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We need only point to our media “factcheckers,” journalists with political and ideological biases who have regularly, and arbitrarily, labeled completely debatable contentions as falsehoods, while either ignoring or justifying scores of other unsettled contentions. Are these the arbiters of facts who will be manning the government commission appointed by those storied truthtellers in congress?
A recent example was the suppressing of the New York Post’s blockbuster story of Hunter Biden’s business deals and whether or not Joe Biden, as vice president, profited from them. An alliance of Big Tech and left-wing media made sure that either the story was suppressed or “debunked” by “fact-checkers.”
No doubt AOC’s “commission” would help facilitate bringing to heel the conservative media. I don’t know about you, but I’d almost prefer a “truth and reconciliation commission” to a media star-chamber.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants to Liberate Red States From Their Suppression
If there is one service that divides the left it is Uber.
On one hand, the left demands a so-called living wage, wails about how capitalism needs to be regulated, and wants to support government-backed, union-protected groups. On the other hand, the left enjoys affordable and convenient services like Uber.
One of these individuals is democratic socialist it-girl Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
She tweeted in March 2018:
NYC’s fourth driver suicide. Yellow cab drivers are in financial ruin due to the unregulated expansion of Uber. What was a living wage job now pays under minimum.
We need:
– to call Uber drivers what they are: EMPLOYEES, not contractors
– Fed jobs guarantee
– Prep for automation https://t.co/FjfapJV2ni
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) March 21, 2018
Interesting.
Now it turns out that Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign spent big bucks on Uber.
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Using Federal Election Commission (FEC) data, Fox News reported:
But between April and late June, the Ocasio-Cortez campaign recorded spending nearly $4,000 on Uber for what appears to be 160 rides by its staff, Federal Election Commission (FEC) records reveal.
The payments to California-based Uber ranged from just 59 cents to $82.26 and were filed under “car service.” There’s no data yet for the months of July and August.
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Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign does use a New York-based company for travel, but it’s not the traditional yellow cabs that receive the money.
The FEC records show that the campaign spent nearly $2,500 for more than 90 rides with the so-called ride-sharing startup company Juno that pitched itself as an alternative to Uber for drivers as it offered slightly better pay and an option to accumulate the company’s stock. There’s no data yet for any rides taken by the Ocasio-Cortez campaign between in July and August.
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You have to love the hypocrisy of the left.