Who is responsible for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's success? Clusters of right-wing critics and pundits have volunteered a horde of conspiratorial answers to that question ever since the 29-year-old emerged as a leading progressive voice in 2018. Most of them, it seems, are skeptical that the former waitress could muster the political savvy needed for such a meteoric rise in the nation's Capital.
Her comments came in response to two theories that gained prominence last week after being amplified by popular right-wing figures. One such theory received a signal boost from Fox News host Sean Hannity, who directed his roughly 4 million Twitter followers to his website. In the linked article, he embedded what’s described as a “must-see” YouTube video that claims Ocasio-Cortez is not a “real” congresswoman but an actress hired to play the part.
Also last week, Twitter was rife with speculation that the Bronx native is actually a figurehead for the political machinations of her chief of staff, a theory amplified by Fox News articles with similar framing. On Saturday morning, Ocasio-Cortez said the network had reached celebrity tabloid-level proportions in its relentless coverage of her, calling it the “AOC TMZ.”
After they already made fun of her, for being a bartender? Sadly, the haters that listen to him, will bite hook, line and sinker. Hate makes people, incredibly stupid.
She cost NY billions in tax revenues. 👎
Don’t even waste your time responding to those idiots, they fear you and it’s beautiful.
RepAOC - because surely no woman could actually be that sharp, articulate & intelligent. 🙄. They’re desperate to disqualify her because she intimidates them.
Hannity is a brown noser who is paid by Fox to lie favourably on Trump and his entourage
So those glasses are real?!
They’re trying everything to tear down AOC. Only because they are AFRAID of her!
What are they on?