AOC and other progressives have a new goal: Silence the press

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she wants to "rein in" the media amid the aftermath of the Capitol riots.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been a wellspring of truly terrible ideas for years, but her new one might be her worst on yet: A Ministry of Truth.

During a live stream on her Instagram page, Ocasio-Cortez was asked by a viewer if, to help with national healing, there were congressional plans to institute any “truth and reconciliation or media literacy initiatives.”

The socialist congresswoman replied that, yes, indeed, she and some of her colleagues have been exploring media literacy initiatives to help “rein in” the press and combat misinformation after last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol.

“It’s one thing to have differentiating opinions but it’s another thing entirely to just say things that are false,” Ocasio-Cortez added. “So that’s something that we’re looking into.”



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Majority Whip Steve Scalise seen being taken on a stretcher to a medical helicopter after being shot at a congressional baseball practice in Virginia on Wednesday morning.

A member of the Nebraska Democratic Party said he was “glad” House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was shot at a congressional baseball game practice and wished the Louisiana Republican was dead.

In the expletive-laced recording, Phil Montag, then the volunteer co-chairman of the Nebraska Democratic Party’s technology committee, blamed Scalise for seeking to take away people’s health care coverage through the Republican bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

“This motherf***er, like, his whole job is like to get people [to] convince Republicans to f***ing kick people off f***ing health care,” Montag can be heard saying in the recording in reference to Scalise.

When he made the remarks, Montag was speaking to Chelsey Gentry-Tipton, the chairwoman of the state Democratic Party’s Black Caucus, and her friend, Destin Madison, according to the Omaha World-Herald and Nebraska Democratic Party Chair Jane Kleeb.

It’s unclear how the conversation began, but the recording on YouTube starts with Madison asking, “So what is it you want to do?”

Gentry-Tipton responds to Montag’s complaints by saying, “We know all of this.” Madison later is audible telling Montag that he has been recording him and plans to release the audio of their conversation.

“I hate this motherf***er. I’m f***ing glad he got shot. I’m glad he got shot,” Montag says on the tape.

“So then say something. So then say something,” Gentry-Tipton responds.

“I’m not going to f***ing say that in public,” Montag replies.

“You don’t have to say that in public. Then say something, say something,” Gentry-Tipton says again as Madison asks, “Well then, what are you saying it to us for? What are you telling us for?”

“I wish he was f***ing dead,” Montag then says of Scalise.

“Why are you telling us, but not telling anyone else?” Madison asks.

“I’m trying to f***ing – because I’m trying to f***ing figure out (inaudible)” Montag says.

Gentry-Tipton has come under fire for remarking on Facebook earlier this month that she thought it was “so funny” to watch congressmen “crying on live tv” about the trauma they experienced in the shootings at the Republican congressional baseball practice, according to the World-Herald. In the same chain, the World-Herald reported she wrote, “The very people that push pro NRA legislation in efforts to pad their pockets with complete disregard for human life. Yeah, having a hard time feeling bad for them.”

The comments prompted the state Democratic Party leadership to call for Gentry-Tipton’s resignation as Black Caucus chairwoman, but she refused to do so, saying in a statement on Facebook that her posts were taken out of context by party officials and that she would not resign “at this point,” the World-Herald reported.

An army of lawyers descended on the Wisconsin city of Kenosha on Tuesday to prey on the family of Jacob Blake and fan the flames of mob violence.

Sure enough, a few hours later, two people were shot dead in another night of rioting, arson and destruction, spurred on by politicians, lawyers and other faithless opportunists.

Another Democrat-run American city suffering at the hands of the violent BLM-Antifa wing of the Democratic Party, which has been deputized to influence the outcome of the November election.

After two nights of mayhem, the predatory attorneys, led by George Floyd lawyer Ben Crump, staged a press conference designed to maximize anger about Sunday’s police shooting of Blake, who reportedly was wanted on warrants for domestic violence and sexual assault, and appeared on video to be resisting arrest.

Biden was no better, leaping to judgment Monday in a grievance-mongering statement: “We are at an inflection point. We must dismantle systemic racism.”

It wasn’t until Wednesday, after the violence turned deadly, that Biden gingerly followed Jackson’s example: “Violence that endangers lives, violence that guts businesses … is wrong.”

After two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were shot in their heads last Saturday night, a small group of protesters gathered at the hospital where the two deputies were being treated (they are expected to survive). According to an eyewitness, some protesters were chanting “death to the police, kill the police, and they were using all types of curse words and derogatory terms about the police.”

The suspect in the shootings has not been arrested and his motives are unknown. But the ugly scene outside the hospital is a good reason to examine extreme leftwing hate speech and incitement to violence. In fact, according to a just-released report, this type of rhetoric is rapidly spreading on extreme left social media.

The report, titled “Network-Enabled Anarchy,” was prepared by the independent Network Contagion Research Institute, which tracks hate speech across social media, in collaboration with the Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience at Rutgers University. The report is a follow up to an earlier NCRI study of the “boogaloos,” an extreme rightwing movement bent on starting a second Civil War. Boogaloos, according to charges brought against several of them by federal prosecutors, plotted to firebomb a U.S. Forest Service facility and killed a security officer at a federal courthouse.