Is AOC Post-Truth Too?

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, the empty political rhetoric that is "everyday people." In the interview, fact-checking is big business in the age of Trump. But one politician diametrically opposed to the president—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—is playing fast and loose with statistics too, and journalists have noticed. Should she be called out? NY Magazine's Eric Levitz says it's complicated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following recording may contain explicit language.
0:02.8	I can't get more explicit than May.
0:05.7	Let's just say it may.
0:07.0	["Main Theme Song"]
0:11.0	It's Wednesday, February 27, 2019.
0:13.7	From slated to the gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:15.7	I'm like, many of you, I am a person.
0:18.1	I thought myself consistently to be a person.
0:20.4	Routinely a person, continuously, and continually a person.
0:26.1	You could even say that I am an everyday person.
0:29.2	I am also an American.
0:30.5	Let's note that.
0:31.6	So every day I am a person.
0:33.6	And every day I am an American.
0:35.5	And yet it was almost four years ago
0:37.5	when Hillary Clinton launched her campaign.
0:39.8	She invoked the kind of person I am.
0:41.4	And it didn't really strike a chord.
0:43.1	But the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top.
0:47.2	Every day Americans need a champion.
0:49.1	And I want to beat that champion.
0:50.8	Some critics pounced on that.
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