{"id":564504,"date":"2021-06-15T12:52:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T16:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=564504"},"modified":"2021-06-15T12:52:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T16:52:13","slug":"the-3-steps-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-takes-to-shut-down-media-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-3-steps-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-takes-to-shut-down-media-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"The 3 Steps Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Takes To Shut Down Media Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-3-steps-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-takes-to-shut-down-media-criticism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=564504&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1155806904.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>In 2015, CNN claimed that Donald Trump so aptly deflected media scandal that he ought to be dubbed \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/tv\/2015\/12\/12\/exp-why-trump-is-teflon-don.cnn\">Teflon Don<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In reality, that title more appropriately belongs to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). The Bronx borough socialist has perfected the art of wriggling out of well-deserved media accountability, raising blame-dodging to a fine science.<\/p>\n<p>Her shtick can be broken down into three identifiable steps:<\/p>\n<h4>First, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims that accurate reports of her statements are right-wing media distortions<\/h4>\n<p>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez launched her political career with a rare degree of adulation. Then-Democratic Party co-chair Tom Perez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dnc-chair-perez-who-loves-socialist-candidates-hank-berrien\">called<\/a> her \u201cthe future of the Democratic Party,\u201d and the media lionized her for her defeat of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-democrat-rep-makes-insane-suggestion-about-ryan-saavedra\">10-term<\/a> Democratic incumbent Joe Crowley. Her future seemed bright.<\/p>\n<p>Then she started speaking.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever the media accurately quote her extreme words, she begins the first step of her three-part blame-shifting strategy: She claims her own words were the product of a conservative media disinformation campaign designed to make her or the far-Left members of her \u201cSquad\u201d look radical, anti-American, or outlandishly stupid.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, <a href=\"https:\/\/stream.org\/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-gaslighting-america\/\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gaslights America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She recently employed this tactic on behalf of her fellow radical, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), when the Minnesota congresswoman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-only-12-democrats-condemn-ilhan-omar-for-comparing-u-s-israel-to-terrorists\">equated<\/a> the United States and Israel, on one hand, with Hamas and the Taliban, on the other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer comments were absolutely mischaracterized,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/aoc-democrats-mischaracterized-ilhan-omars-remarks-on-u-s-terrorists-due-to-right-wing-news\">told<\/a> CNN\u2019s Dana Bash on Sunday. \u201cThis whole hubbub started with right-wing news outlets taking what she said out of context.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez began her tenure in office by using this strategy. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2019, she told a receptive audience that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/eco-anxiety-is-the-medias-coverage-of-climate-change-giving-viewers-psychological-issues\">the world is going to end in 12 years<\/a> if we don\u2019t address climate change.\u201d She added that lawmakers don\u2019t have the luxury of being concerned about the cost of the remedy, because \u201cthis is our World War II.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The internet\u2019s echo of her words sounded very much like the whole world laughing at her. So, five months later, she decided to make her statement retroactively sarcastic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a technique of the GOP, to take dry humor + sarcasm literally and \u2018fact check\u2019 it. Like the \u2018world ending in 12 years\u2019 thing, you\u2019d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it\u2019s literal,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ocasio-cortez-i-was-joking-about-world-ending-12-amanda-prestigiacomob\">tweeted<\/a>. \u201cBut the GOP is basically Dwight from The Office so who knows.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"13.537604456825\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is a technique of the GOP, to take dry humor + sarcasm literally and \u201cfact check\u201d it.<\/p>\n<p>Like the \u201cworld ending in 12 years\u201d thing, you\u2019d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it\u2019s literal.<\/p>\n<p>But the GOP is basically Dwight from The Office so who knows. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pmkwrdeAnq\">https:\/\/t.co\/pmkwrdeAnq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1127604746066583552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately for her, video of the incident shows that she made her statement in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1087550417653940224\">humorless earnest<\/a>. She even added that she wished she \u201cdidn\u2019t have to be doing every post\u201d on social media, but until others step up their online criticism of the congresswoman\u2019s enemies, \u201cI\u2019m just going to let them have it.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.5196078431373\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AOC<\/a> on millennials and social media: &#8220;We\u2019re, like, the world is going to end in 12 years if we don\u2019t address climate change&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HjhbVyfFN4\">pic.twitter.com\/HjhbVyfFN4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1087550417653940224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Having succeeded once, Ocasio-Cortez did the same thing following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/4-baseless-conspiracy-theories-the-media-continues-to-report-as-fact\">disastrous rollout<\/a> of her Green New Deal a few weeks later. The official FAQ produced by her office said that her plan would provide a guaranteed income to anyone \u201cunwilling to work,\u201d claimed every building in America could be revamped easily, and foresaw all air travel being replaced by technologies that don\u2019t exist yet. When that inspired titters of laughter, she again claimed that conservatives \u201cdoctored documents\u201d \u2026 and somehow convinced her office to release them to NPR, presumably?<\/p>\n<p>When she can\u2019t blame the right-wing noise machine for distorting her words, she blames conservatives for believing them. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually and semantically correct than about being morally right,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/factually-incorrect-cannot-be-morally-correct-ben-shapiro\">said<\/a>. In other words, take her seriously, not literally.<\/p>\n<h4>Second, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez insists media coverage of her statements puts her life \u2018in danger\u2019<\/h4>\n<p>In tandem with her kneejerk reflex of lying, she simultaneously blames the victim, claiming that any media criticism could get her killed in cold blood.<\/p>\n<p>She tested the tactic in April 2019, when Ilhan Omar trivialized 9\/11 by describing it as merely a day when \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ilhan-omar-trivializes-911-terrorist-attacks-some-ryan-saavedra\">some people did something<\/a>.\u201d President Donald Trump tweeted out her remarks, bringing harsh commentary on Omar. \u201cMembers of Congress have a duty to respond to the President\u2019s explicit attack today.@IlhanMN\u2019s life is in danger,\u201dOcasio-Cortez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ocasio-cortez-says-trump-violently-targeting-omar-ryan-saavedra\">tweeted<\/a> without evidence.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.212034383954\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Members of Congress have a duty to respond to the President\u2019s explicit attack today.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IlhanMN<\/a>\u2019s life is in danger. For our colleagues to be silent is to be complicit in the outright, dangerous targeting of a member of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>We must speak out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst they came\u2026\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ygOX1vhE9j\">pic.twitter.com\/ygOX1vhE9j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1116848329776934912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Omar likely receives death threats, because <em>everybody <\/em>in public life receives death threats. That doesn\u2019t place her above accountability, except in the Squad\u2019s media playbook.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2019, Ocasio-Cortez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ocasio-cortez-suggests-pelosi-wants-her-get-death-ryan-saavedra\">escalated<\/a> the bloodlust by claiming none other than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had been \u201csingling out four individuals,\u201d while \u201cknowing the media environment that we\u2019re operating in, knowing the amount of death threats that we get.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This winter, she was at it again, finding yet another would-be assassin in Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). When Cruz dared to say he agreed with one of her positions, she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aoc\/status\/1354848253729234944\">replied<\/a>, \u201cyou almost had me murdered 3 weeks ago\u201d and mentioned \u201cthe still-raging aftermath of the attacks you had a role in.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"13.356741573034\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am happy to work with Republicans on this issue where there\u2019s common ground, but you almost had me murdered 3 weeks ago so you can sit this one out.<\/p>\n<p>Happy to work w\/ almost any other GOP that aren\u2019t trying to get me killed.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime if you want to help, you can resign. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4mVREbaqqm\">https:\/\/t.co\/4mVREbaqqm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1354848253729234944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rather than question what proof she had that Ted Cruz was, in fact, trying to have her murdered, the media did virtually nothing to clear the conservative senator. NBC News reported that Cruz \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/aoc-demands-ted-cruz-resign-over-capitol-riot-you-almost-n1256052\">insisted<\/a>\u201d that he \u201cdid not incite any violence\u201d \u2014 as though there were any question about it. CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/02\/04\/politics\/fact-check-aoc-capitol-attack-photo-shoot-office-building-police-officer-cruz\/index.html\">hedged<\/a> that, while Sen. Cruz wasn\u2019t \u201ctrying\u201d to get her killed, \u201cOcasio-Cortez can mount a reasonable argument that the Texas Republican\u2019s actions had the effect of fueling the violent insurrection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez used the tactic again last week on Omar\u2019s behalf, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/aoc-far-left-democrats-lash-out-after-jewish-democrats-slam-ilhan-omar-for-comparing-u-s-israel-to-terrorists\">blaming a group of Jewish Democrats<\/a> for engaging in \u201cvilification, intentional mischaracterization, and public targeting\u201d of Omar, since they \u201chave no concept for the danger they put her in by skipping private conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Third, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez waits for the media to drop the issue (and they always do)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>How exactly did Ted Cruz try to arrange a hit inside the U.S. Capitol? Who was the mysterious staffer who supposedly leaked a doctored Republican version of the Green New Deal FAQ? Why did everyone, including Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s face, think she was serious when she said the world would end in a dozen years?<\/p>\n<p>And how exactly do \u201cright-wing media\u201d so consistently put the words of a tragically uninformed, wild-eyed radical into her mouth? The media never ask; they simply let the congresswoman skate with her latest equivocation.<\/p>\n<p>Like Ralph Northam, Andrew Cuomo, or Bill Clinton, she just waits out the outrage and survives to slander another day. Now you know exactly how she manages it.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015, CNN claimed that Donald Trump so aptly deflected media scandal that he ought to be dubbed \u201cTeflon Don.\u201dIn reality, that title more appropriately belongs to Rep. 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