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Ocasio-Cortez Staff In DAMAGE Control Over False Statements

Tim Pool Daily News

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Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.47.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Ocasio-Cortez Staff In DAMAGE Control Over False Statements after her policy adviser went on Tucker Carlson and falsely stated that their FAQS on the Green New Deal were not in fact real.Following this an activist with Media Matters spread a snipped video only showing the adviser denying the FAQ and not Carlson correction leading many to believe that the FAQ was fake. To make it worse, Ocasio-Cortez retweeted the activist propaganda.Now we have a staff member for Cortez saying "unwilling to work" WAS supposed to be included we just didn't understand what they meant. The damage control for the far left bill seems to be not working as it just makes the press on the issue worse. Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

In the wake of the Green New Deal, it would see that Alexander Ocasio-Cortez and her staff are in full on damage control.

0:06.4

A controversy erupted when one of her policy advisors went on Tucker Carlson's show

0:11.2

and incorrectly stated that the FAQ they released didn't exist and was actually trolls

0:17.0

because apparently he was referring to some other document.

0:20.0

Now, we can see their kind of backpedaling back and forth and I have to assume

0:24.5

I think they're kind of lying and I think they did publish this on purpose,

0:28.1

but because of the backlash, because of the embarrassment, they've started walking things back.

0:33.1

But now, one of the staff members for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says,

0:36.7

no, we were thinking about some of these things. You just didn't understand.

0:40.8

And before we get started, as you want to say, I didn't really want to do a follow-up on this,

0:44.4

but one of my tweets is going to turn up traction and I want to make sure I clarify for the record

0:48.4

exactly what is going on. And also, don't forget to follow me on minds at m-i-n-d-s.com-slash-timcast

0:55.1

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0:58.8

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1:02.8

First, from Business Insider, Ocasio-Cortez and team attempt damage control

1:07.4

after a fumbled green new deal rollout that included a line about paying Americans,

1:12.0

quote, unwilling to work. A line on Cortez's website supporting economic security to all those

1:17.6

who are unable or unwilling to work, triggered backlash this week and prompted mixed messages

1:22.1

from her team about where that line came from and whether it was ever intended to be part of the

1:26.5

landmark green new deal policy package. The controversy has given fodder to critics of the green

1:30.5

new deal legislation, which was unveiled Thursday. Though the actual green new deal legislation

1:35.1

introduced to the House of Representatives contains no mention of guaranteeing economic security

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