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Newsweek does damage control for AOC’s constitutional ignorance

By Becket Adams
Published April 2, 2019 5:32pm ET
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Newsweek does damage control for AOC’s constitutional ignorance
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., delivers her inaugural address. | (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen)

It must be nice, having national newsrooms to run full-time damage control pro bono.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said a stupid thing recently during a one-on-one interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes. That she said something ignorant is not news at all. What is newsworthy is that Newsweek felt the need to protect her where she is clearly in the wrong.

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