During the second night of the Democratic National Convention, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York seconded Bernie Sanders’ nomination for president.
The moment was instantly distorted and spun by multiple media outlets as a snub of Joe Biden. Her remarks were part of the procedure and pageantry of the event: Candidates who earn enough votes in the primary have their names and the number of delegates they won recognized during the state-by-state roll call.
The Hill reported: “In one of the shortest speeches of the DNC, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez did not endorse Joe Biden,” NBC News said in its original post to the network’s more than 7.7 million followers.
“This is completely unacceptable, disappointing, and appalling,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in response to her 8.3 million followers. “The DNC shared the procedural purpose of my remarks to media WELL in advance. @NBC knew what was going to happen & that it was routine.”
“You waited several hours to correct your obvious and blatantly misleading tweet. It sparked an enormous amount of hatred and vitriol, & now the misinfo you created is circulating on other networks,” she added. “All to generate hate-clicks from a pre-recorded, routine procedural motion.” [https://bit.ly/3j2UCt1]
During Wednesday’s edition of #RolandMartinUnfiltered, Roland and his panel of guests dissected the moment and the manufactured outrage that resulted from the alleged snub.
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