Much of left-wing Twitter exploded with Democrats’ fake outrage over a short-lived Cancun trip by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.
Among those helping the non-story to spread was Rep. Alexandria Ocasio–Cortez, D-NY, who attempted to clout-chase off of Texas’s fluke winter weather by organizing wellness call check-ins.
Of course, the Bronx-based, socialist “Squad” member’s concern for citizens in the Lonestar State seemed incidental to the effort, the latest chapter in her irrational obsession over Cruz.
If Sen. Cruz had resigned back in January after helping gin up a violent insurrection that killed several people, he could’ve taken his vacation in peace. Texans should continue to demand his resignation.
But don’t blame me for this, my points are on Amtrak! ? https://t.co/CAWCgtxQ73
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 18, 2021
But amid all the social-media publisher’s fake outrage was the very real outrage that one partisan-hack experienced while thinking that Fox News host Tucker Carlson had doctored a photo to make AOC’s eyes appear more googly, Twitchy reported.
That real outrage was over an allegedly fake photo, that turned out to be a very real photo, nearly short-circuiting the left’s meta-outrage-o-meter in the process.
Carlson had called the congresswoman to task on his show for claiming that the Green New Deal would have prevented widespread power outages in fossil-fuel reliant Texas during the recent blizzard.
Daily Beast contributor Justin Baragona, who maintains a verified Twitter account, then attempted a “gotcha” moment while scouring Carlson’s nightly broadcast for things to be outraged about.
But a look at the facts prompted him to stealthily remove the tweet shortly thereafter.
By then, it was already too late, as he already had been called out and screen-shotted.
Some conservatives had their own Twitter field day after the attempted attack on Carlson quickly ricocheted back in his direction.
He realized those are actually her eyes! ??? pic.twitter.com/q5nKxlAAct
— Fuzzy Chimp (@fuzzychimpcom) February 18, 2021
Baragona later acknowledged the awkward mistake and said he would “take the L” for it.
Taking down this tweet as the image of AOC has been out there since at least May 2018.
Anyway, I’ll take the L and the addition to the list @SirajAHashmi pic.twitter.com/BVvc8URssT
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) February 18, 2021
He even offered advice to his loyal left-wing following on how they might avoid the same mistake—although it is sure to go unheeded.
Every day you log onto Twitter, you hope to get through it without being it.
Tonight, I was it.
And I absolutely deserved to be.
Word of advice — if you don’t want to be IT, make sure you don’t send out factually inaccurate tweets that can be easily verified and debunked.
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) February 18, 2021
