Questioning witnesses in the first impeachment hearing staged by House Republicans, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez prompted each to say they were not presenting “firsthand witness accounts” of crimes committed by Joe Biden.

The New York Democrat also accused Republicans of fabricating supposed evidence of corruption involving the president and his surviving son, Hunter Biden.

Republicans on the House oversight committee called three witnesses, Democrats one.

  • @ForgotAboutDreB
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    1 year ago

    Journalist often target their content to people with a low reading age. Some tabloids in the UK target their content for someone of a reading age of 7. Even the financial times a high brow economic paper targets a reading age of 12.

    It’s likely the journalist made a conscious decision to not say fabricate, as that would restrict the amount of people that could comprehend the headline.

    • @ThatWeirdGuy1001
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      41 year ago

      54% of adults have a literacy below 6th grade level in America so that tracks

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      I’ll take your word for it. So, in short, I am in fact expecting an unrealistic standard. Complaining about shit like this makes me feel like an old grumpy man, and I’m not even 30 yet