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While all but ignoring the liberal media’s massive screw-up with the smearing of the Covington Kids, CNN media reporter and “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter took time out of the show to tout how Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez utilized social media to spread her falsehoods and socialist propaganda. And, of course, the all-female liberal panel was happy to oblige by singing her praises and suggesting that fact-checks against her were somehow sexist.
Stelter first went to former Huffington Post reporter Laura Bassett, who was fired last week by the online outlet. Citing Bassett’s experience with “Conservative media reactions to what [AOC]’s doing,” Stelter wondered, “What do you think is fueling the constant attacks on Fox against this freshman Congresswoman?”
Of course, the cause wasn’t her loose association with the facts or economics, her childish antics, nor her support for an ideology that had brought suffering to millions of people around the globe, the cause was all the bigotry from the old white men:
Look, she's got a target on her back because she ticks every box that makes conservative men uncomfortable: she's a woman, she’s Latina, she’s young, she’s working class, she's a millennial, she's a democratic socialist. Everything that makes people uncomfortable. And she's a star, she’s a rising Democratic star. She’s got a lot of power. People are really responding to her on social media, as Charlotte said, in the same way that people responded to Trump kind of emotionally a couple of years ago.
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