Watch what happens when Tucker Carlson steps out of the conservative bubble and brings on an AOC policy adviser who debunks all the conservative media lies straight to his face (spoiler: it doesn't go great for Tucker)

Ocasio-Cortez adviser admits he falsely claimed Green New Deal didn't promise security for those 'unwilling' to work'

Carlson asked Hockett at the outset of the interview: "Why would we ever pay people who are 'unwilling to work'?"

In a head-turning moment heard around the Internet, Hockett replied flatly, "Uh, we never would, right? And AOC has never said anything like that, right? I think you're referring to some sort of document -- I think some doctored document that somebody other than us has been circulating. ... She's actually tweeted it out to laugh at it, if you look at her latest tweets. It seems apparently, some Republicans have put it out there. I don't know the details."

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SO what he says is that there are right-wing people online who doctored up lines in the Green New Deal that weren’t there. Now, unfortunately, he’s RIGHT, there are dumbasses on our side who just made up crap and passed it along. BUT HE LIED about which were which.

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Jeryl Bier has been running this thread down ever since the stupid document came out:
What he notes is that they’re straight up lying about whether the document promised “economic security to all those who are unable or unwilling to work.” I mean, that’s insane right? Pretty much a nation of people on welfare. Well they were so completely ridiculed about it that now they’re lying about where it came from.

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Later in the interview, Hockett doubled down that Ocasio-Cortez's official FAQ did not include a reference to a guarantee of universal economic stability even for those "unwilling" to work: "Definitely not. That's erroneous. It's the wrong document. That's not us."

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