Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called out CNN reporter Chris Cillizza on Monday for lying about not being able to include the context of her quote in a tweet.
“@CillizzaCNN – looks like your ‘character count’ argument to avoid including my full quote is straight up wrong,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted at Cillizza of CNN, who argued that the character limitations on Twitter prevented him from including her full quote.
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.@CillizzaCNN – looks like your ‘character count’ argument to avoid including my full quote is straight up wrong.
Also: where are all the “Pinocchios” for Republicans this week (many of whom are much more senior than me) blatantly lying about marginal tax rates? https://t.co/d8VIMLKaYD
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 7, 2019
In the original tweet, Cillizza linked to an article on the freshman congresswoman’s “slippery slope on ‘facts.’” He quoted her as saying, “I think that there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.”
“I think that there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.” — @AOC https://t.co/jKoBUDAa9v
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) January 7, 2019
The Democrat from New York responded to the tweet with what she said after the quote Cillizza tweeted, which changed the general tone of the statement and gave the first part of her statement some more context.
“And whenever I make a mistake, I say, ‘OK, this was clumsy.’ and then I restate what my point was. But it’s — it’s not the same thing as — as the president lying about immigrants. It’s not the same thing, at all.” – the next sentence,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “Cover the quote in context, thanks.”
“And whenever I make a mistake, I say, “OK, this was clumsy.” and then I restate what my point was. But it’s— it’s not the same thing as— as the President lying about immigrants. It’s not the same thing, at all.” – the next sentence
Cover the quote in context, thanks. https://t.co/e5zHw4uHaw
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 7, 2019
Parker Molloy, editor-at-large for the left-leaning media watchdog Media Matters for America, also called out Cillizza when he said that he could not include the entirety of the quote in the tweet due to character limitations.
“Hey @CillizzaCNN, why are you lying? You had enough characters to fit the entire next sentence in that tweet,” Molloy tweeted.
Hey @CillizzaCNN, why are you lying? You had enough characters to fit the entire next sentence in that tweet. @AOC pic.twitter.com/dOq7esFhue
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) January 7, 2019
