WHEN EVEN VOX IS NOTICING: Vox: Say, AOC’s Story About The Green New Deal FAQ Doesn’t Add Up.

via hotair:

Monday, both the Washington Post and the NY Times wrote articles about the appearance and disappearance of the Green New Deal FAQ. Both articles adopted the self-serving explanations of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’ Chief of Staff who had belatedly claimed over the weekend that the whole thing was a big mistake. The Green New Deal FAQ, which contained lines about “farting cows” and guaranteed economic security for people “unwilling to work,” was never meant to see the light of day, they claimed. For the Times and the Post, that explanation was good enough.

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To its credit, Vox’s take on this story does not read like a press release written by AOC’s office. There’s still a whole section of the piece devoted to conservatives seizing on the language in the FAQ but then comes this admission:

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Ocasio Cortez’s staff doesn’t have a clear explanation for what happened

There hasn’t been a lot of clarity on exactly how this fact sheet got sent out to numerous media organizations at the same time as the final Green New Deal resolution. Ocasio-Cortez’s office has said there is a fact sheet that was intentionally doctored, and also that an unfinished draft got sent out and posted on their website before it was ready for prime time.

But for the most part, Ocasio-Cortez’s office has backed away from Hockett’s assertion that the fact sheet was doctored and sent out by Republicans, saying that it was a mistake. In a string of Saturday tweets, Chakrabarti provided more clarity about the rollout of the Green New Deal and what went wrong with the fact sheet release.

“We did this in collaboration with a bunch of groups and offices over the course of the last month,” Chakrabarti tweeted on Saturday. “As part of that process, there were multiple iterations, brainstorming docs, FAQs, etc. that we shared. Some of these early drafts got leaked.”

Per Chakrabarti’s account, this fact sheet got “leaked” before it was ready; a statement that doesn’t quite match up with the accounts of multiple news organizations who say Ocasio-Cortez’s office sent them the fact sheet along with the final resolution.

Here’s someone from NPR confirming that the FAQ wasn’t a leak it was a document emailed to them by AOC’s office:

So in order to believe the story being told by AOC’s Chief of Staff you have to believe that the FAQ was accidentally published on her website two days before the rollout, including a linked headline which appeared on the front page of her site. And you have to believe that as part of the media rollout her staff accidentally emailed the FAQ to numerous media organizations. This obviously strains credulity, except at the Washington Post and the NY Times. Kudos to Vox for choosing not playing along with this nonsense….

 

h/t GR

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