The opinion of Fox News and ‘hard news’ wings has apparently only gone over a new, misleading story about rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Tuesday night DNC speech nominating from incumbent Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for president, repeatedly suggesting that progressive star Joe Biden “sniff” as a sign of Democrats in disarray.
Shortly after Ocasio-Cortez’s largely procedural and symbolic act of nominating Sanders’ nominee on Tuesday night – a speech in which she also reviewed a number of policy positions she shares with the Democratic-Socialist senator – remarked several media companies that she never mentioned by name Joe Biden – the actual nominee of the party – in her brief remarks.
The New York Congresswoman immediately declared her role in the formalities of the convention, while at the same time pointing out that she supported Biden’s candidacy in the general election.
‘If you were confused, do not worry! Convention rules require roll call & nominations for each candidate who exceeds the delegate threshold. I was asked the 2nd for nomination for sen. To take Sanders for a call, ‘she tweeted. “I send my deepest congratulations to @JoeBiden – let’s win in November.”
NBC News, meanwhile, tweeted that Congresswoman “did not sign Joe Biden” in her speech – which in principle misrepresented the tradition and formality behind her speech. Finally, the network deleted the tweet and gave a “note and clarification from the editor on the note that NBC” should have included more detail in the nomination process. ” However, Ocasio-Cortez said the damage had already been done, adding that media outlets knew “WELL FORWARDThe nature of her “routine” speech.
While NBC News corrected her story, it was right-wing New York Post ran with the story that Ocasio-Cortez essentially went rough and publicly opposed the former vice president, publishing the headline: “AOC nominates Bernie Sanders, sniffs Joe Biden in DNC address.” The paper, a sister publication owned by Murdoch of Fox News, also ran a cover photo of the congresswoman entitled “AOCYA, JOE!”
And so, of course, the misleadingly distorted narrative made its way to Fox, with the network’s hosts and reporters dedicating multiple segments to the departure of the line that Ocasio-Cortez used in her 60-second ceremonial speech to burn Biden. .
As de Fox & Friends hosts keep a copy of the Peal, Brian Kilmeade explained that “one of the biggest stories” came from the DNC was the “hostile video” from AOC “that supports Bernie Sanders.” This was all a plan from far left to take over the Democratic Party, the Fox host suggested.
“It looks like there’s an agenda to try to come up with Bernie Sanders, who leads on the first day and AOC with her speech until a minute that Bernard Sanders immediately endorses,” Kilmeade continued. “The theory is, and it’s hard to put down, that once Joe Biden is elected, this party will fly to the left, and when things like that happen and you see someone like AOC with the social media rock star, she’s in “Everything is bad about the country, where they want to take it, and what Bernie Sanders would do for it. Bad combination!”
Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins, meanwhile, called Ocasio-Cortez’s speech the ‘snub of the night’, later adding that the symbolic and long-standing procedure of nominating a candidate who had passed a delegate threshold was shocking.
“Well, a lot of people were wondering what Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would do with her short time,” Jenkins said. ‘She nominated Bernie Sanders, which shocked many. She later explained in a tweet that the organizers of the convention asked her to do so because Sanders met the delegation threshold to nominate. However, the organizers have not instructed them to specifically mention the name of Biden, which was seen by many as a slug. ”
Talk to the hosts about the convention, The HillMedia reporter Joe Concha also suggested that Ocasio-Cortez deliberately sniff the standard bearer of the Democratic Party.
‘AOC, on top of that, during her 60-second speech brings no two words very key. It’s a name. Joe Biden, ”said Concha. ‘Didn’t call him once. How do you have a Democratic National Convention and not even nominate the nominee? ‘
The conservative effort to print a classic “Dems in Disarray” story continued America’s Newsroom, one of the network’s demonstrably “targeted news” programs.
“I can not ask you otherwise about what we saw and heard from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in her one-minute delivery,” anchor Sandra Smith asked her during an interview with conservative pundit Byron York. ‘She did not mention Joe Biden by name. De New York Post picks it up this morning: ‘AOCYA, JOE! ‘She had her moment and did not say the name of Joe Biden. ”
The program ran several other segments May on-air graphics that blown “Ocasio-Cortez launches progressive platform during speech but does not call Biden” and “Critics blow rep Ocasio-Cortez for leaving Biden out of speech by convention.”
The “critics” in question, however, were left to the imagination of the viewers.
At the same time, while the show is obsessed with the non-story, Smith corrected White House adviser Kellyanne Conway to ‘sign’ Ocasio-Cortez Sanders’ claim to the DNC.
‘To be clear, that has been reported as a lack of approval on her part for Joe Biden. “This morning, she asked for explanations for other news outlets, not us, and said that was not the case,” Smith said. in the morning. “
A little later, however, Trace Gallagher asked for a Democratic flack about what the Fox anchor said was a “very confusing” message delivered by the progressive legislator at the DNC.
“I know it was symbolic, Zach, you know, this nomination of Bernie Sanders, but it was also very confusing,” Gallagher told former Obama campaign spokesman Zach Friend. “This may not, Zach, be the message the Biden campaign hopes for.”
After Friend pointed out that this was fairly common in past conventions and that it was meant to be a ‘good show of unity’, Gallagher suggested that it was still very confusing before he jumped the DNC for not providing more clarity .
And so, Fox’s admitted confusion about a fairly straightforward process results in a false narrative that has been shrugged off about its programming.
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