Hillary Alum Pushes Back on Stelter for Calling Ocasio-Cortez Media Critiques ‘Trumpian’

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ALTER: “I think it’s important to make a distinction here. Donald Trump is calling journalists the enemy of the people and AOC is not doing any of that. I think that she is in a unique position where she is getting a tremendous amount of scrutiny for a freshman congresswoman and I think she’s pushing back on some of the intense scrutiny. Look, I don’t see any male members of Congress who are being fact-checked with the intensity and specificity and frequency that she is. I think that she deserves to be fact-checked. She is a member of Congress. Her statements are part of the public record and, you know, fact checkers need to be doing their jobs in checking what she is saying, but I think she’s walking this line by sort of pointing out some of the biases that we do have in the media and also supporting the media as an institution and as an industry.”

(Via Mediaite)