Another day, another conservative getting owned by their own attempted bashing of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The most recent to join those ranks is the Washington Examiner’s Eddie Scarry, who posted a totally creepy picture of the Congresswoman-elect to Twitter, along with a caption suggesting her working-class image isn’t accurate.
The rightwing media is obsessed with “proving” Ocasio-Cortez isn’t as working-class as she says, especially after she mentioned her difficulties in affording a place to live in Washington, D.C. despite having no job until she gets her start in Congress. Quibbling over specifics on that point is a very strange tactic for the right, who would usually love to paint the “political elites/establishment” as out of touch with working-class Americans, and no matter the details, Ocasio-Cortez is undeniably an outlier in Congress on that front.
It’s a weird fixation and sneaking photos like this, not to mention posting them publicly, is a creepy escalation. Naturally, Twitter had a lot to say about it. Like, really a lot.
mother of god pic.twitter.com/L4t8rPsCNI
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) November 15, 2018
Yes, how dare she look well put together during her congressional orientation.
EXCLUSIVE: The So-Called “Middle-Class” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has Not Once Pressed Her Face Up to the Window of a Bakery, Longing for a Loaf of Bread
— Jason O. Gilbert (@gilbertjasono) November 15, 2018
DOES SHE EVEN OWN A SINGLE BINDLE ON A STICK???
— Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) November 15, 2018
NEXT THING YOURE GONNA TELL ME IS WHEN SHE OPENS HER WALLET NOT A SINGLE MOTH FLIES OUT?!?!
— Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) November 15, 2018
Ocasio-Cortez says she’s tight on cash and yet she hasn’t sold an internal organ on the Singaporean black market to pay rent
[6 months of sustained booing]
look, I’m just saying that her “I’m not really flush with cash right now” story don’t wash and a real journalist woul
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) November 15, 2018
Obviously, Scarry’s original comment quickly became a meme.
Hill staffer sent me this pic of Ocasio-Cortez they took just now. I’ll tell you something: that jacket and coat don’t look like a girl who struggles. pic.twitter.com/UrP3uGrjVL
— julia reinstein 🚡 (@juliareinstein) November 15, 2018
Hill staffer sent me this pic of Slen Darman they took just now. I’ll tell you something: that jacket and coat don’t look like a manifestation of teen loneliness turned insecurity-fueled bloodsacrifice who struggles. pic.twitter.com/eHQftdkG0r
— Brock Wilbur (@brockwilbur) November 15, 2018
Hill staffer sent me this pic of Huckle Cat and Lowly Worm they took just now. I’ll tell you something: that hat and bow tie don’t look like a worm who struggles. pic.twitter.com/KskdMIvVfs
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) November 15, 2018
.@Seinfeld2000 here is the episode you asked for https://t.co/mWWYdbM4Gy
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) November 15, 2018
He even got dunked on by the dictionary.
Girl. Noun. A female child, from birth to full growth.
E.g. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not a girl.https://t.co/ASRDezVivT https://t.co/4nnYMLk1fz
— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) November 15, 2018
Both dictionaries.
‘The Ratio’: when the whole entire internet gets together to dunk on you https://t.co/Z9vscsPGHj
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) November 15, 2018
The tweet is especially inane because, as with conservatives’ continued “revelations” that Ocasio-Cortez didn’t actually grow up in the Bronx, their questions about her economic status would be answered if they read and listened to her own words about the matter.
Is this what passes for reporting now?
In a recent interview she actually said she got a Rent the Runway subscription as a gift. (It retails for $139 a month.)
I look forward to your important journalistic updates on what the incoming male members are sporting. 🙄 https://t.co/7tOpDugYHc
— Sara Murray (@SaraMurray) November 15, 2018
Scarry deleted the tweet and tried to use the old “I wasn’t thinking that, you were thinking that” argument in defense of his classism.
ATTN! I posted a tweet earlier suggesting the incoming congresswoman looked well put together — ELEGANT even — despite suggestions she’s struggled. The tweet was taken as something else, so I’ve deleted it!
— Eddie Scarry (@eScarry) November 16, 2018
That’s ridiculous, of course. He said exactly what he meant to the first time, declaring himself to be the arbiter of what non-wealthy women should and shouldn’t look like. And Ocasio-Cortez herself wasn’t going to let him off the hook.
Oh, does @eScarry think he can delete his misogyny without an apology?
I don’t think so. You’re a journalist – readers should know your bias. pic.twitter.com/2KJuiPsUR2
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) November 16, 2018
But as always, Ocasio-Cortez had the perfect response to this nonsense. These conservative figures are going to come after her no matter what, so she can’t waste time trying to appease them.
If I walked into Congress wearing a sack, they would laugh & take a picture of my backside.
If I walk in with my best sale-rack clothes, they laugh & take a picture of my backside.
Dark hates light – that’s why you tune it out.
Shine bright & keep it pushing.✨ https://t.co/mRq5wn0v9A
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) November 15, 2018
(image: DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images)
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