HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER >>> ANOTHER ATTEMPT BY SOME TO
MOCK DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSWOMAN
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ HAS
APPEARED TO BACKFIRE ONCE AGAIN.
MULTIPLE SOCIAL MEDIA USERS ON
THE RIGHT SHARED A YEAR’S OLD
VIDEO OF HER AT BOSTON
UNIVERSITY WITH OTHER STUDENTS
RECREATING DANCES FROM JOHN
HUGHES MOVIES.
HUGHES MOVIES. WITH OCASIO-CORTEZ TAKING A PART
IN THE BREAKFAST CLUB, THEY
WRONGLY STATED SHE WAS IN HIGH
SCHOOL, AND INSTEAD OF
EMBARRASSING HER, THE VIDEO WENT
VIRAL, THE PEOPLE PUTTING THE
DANCE MOVES TO OTHER SONGS.
IT’S NOT JUST THIS, CONSERVATIVE
NEWS SITES FINDS DOZENS OF
ARTICLES CRITICIZING THE
29-YEAR-OLD DEMOCRATIC
29-YEAR-OLD DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST, WHETHER IT WAS FOR
BORROWING A $3,000 OUTFIT FOR A
PHOTO SHOOT OR THE INCOME LEVEL
AND PROPERTY VALUES IN THE TOWN
SHE GREW UP IN WHILE WRONGLY
CLAIMING SHE WENT TO AN IVY
LEAGUE SCHOOL INSTEAD OF THE
PUBLIC UNIVERSITY SHE ATTENDED
OR ATTACKING HER FOR SAYING SHE
WAS HAVING TROUBLE GETTING
APPROVED FOR A D.C. APARTMENT
WHILE UNEMPLOYED.
WHILE UNEMPLOYED. AOC, AS SHE IS SOMETIMES CALLED,
TWEETED IN NOVEMBER THAT
REPUBLICANS SHOULD LISTEN TO HER
ARGUMENTS INSTEAD OF DROOLING
OVER EVERY MINUTE OF FOOTAGE OF
ME IN SLOW MO, A COMMENT WHICH
BREITBART TURNED INTO A
HEADLINE.
HEADLINE. WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THIS?
I’M OF TWO MINDS OF IT, BUT IT
IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF HOW THE
RIGHT SOMETIMES CAN FOCUS ON
SOMEONE ON THE LEFT AND OVERSTEP
TO A POINT WHERE IT GETS UGLY,
UNDERMINING QUITE FRANKLY
DOESN’T HELP EITHER SIDE.
>> WELL, IT’S FASCINATING
BECAUSE SHE’S GOTTEN ATTENTION
BOTH FROM DEMOCRATS AND
REPUBLICANS AND HAS REALLY
CAPTURED THE PUBLIC IMAGINATION
WITH HER YOUTH, WITH HER
OUTSPOKENNESS.
OUTSPOKENNESS. I THINK THAT FROM THE POINT OF
VIEW OF THE RIGHT, THEY HAVE
KIND OF RUNG THE LAST POLITICAL
BENEFIT THEY CAN GET PROBABLY
OUT OF NANCY PELOSI.
IT WAS GETTING A LITTLE STALE TO
BE RUNNING AGAINST HER.
YOU’RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO
RUN AGAINST HER IN 2020 BECAUSE
THERE’S GOING TO BE A DEMOCRATIC
NOMINEE, SO I THINK TO SOME
EXTENT, REPUBLICANS ARE LOOKING
FOR THE NEW PELOSI, THE NEW SORT
OF, YOU KNOW, INSTEAD OF SAN
FRANCISCO LIBERAL, YOU CAN GET
NEW YORK SOCIALIST, WHATEVER
THEY WANT TO TURN HER INTO, AND
BE ABLE TO SORT OF USE HER AS
THE NEW WHIPPING PERSON, IF YOU
WILL, TO EXPLAIN HOW CRAZY
DANGEROUS DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO
BE.
BE. I THINK IT’S REALLY, THAT’S BEEN
OBVIOUSLY THE INSTINCT.
IT’S OBVIOUSLY, IF IT HASN’T
WORKED FOR THEM IN THE PAST, AT
LEAST IT’S HELPED WITH
FUNDRAISING AND THINGS LIKE
THAT.
THAT. I THINK IT’S REALLY IMPORTANT
AND LOOK, JUMPING ON THAT VIDEO
WAS RIDICULOUS.
WAS RIDICULOUS. I WISH I HAD BEEN ABLE TO DANCE
ON ROOFTOPS LIKE THAT IN
COLLEGE, BUT IT’S REALLY
IMPORTANT FOR HER AND FOR
OTHERS.
OTHERS. WE HAD THAT REALLY UNFORTUNATE
MOTHER VIDEO EARLIER, JUST NOT
TO DO ANYTHING THAT GIVES
REPUBLICANS AND THE RIGHT ANY
AMMUNITION TO USE AGAINST THEM.
>> DON’T GIVE THEM THE
AMMUNITION.
AMMUNITION. MIKE BARNICLE.
MIKE BARNICLE. >> BE CAREFUL.
>> YOU KNOW, THIS IS KIND OF AN
AGE OLD THING, THE THING ABOUT
AOC.
AOC. WE HAVE SEEN IT PLAY OUT A
MILLION TIMES, AND IT’S NOT JUST
NOW CONSERVATIVES OR RIGHT WING
STUFF OR BREITBART, IT’S
CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRATS AND IT
SEEMS TO ME IT’S THE AGE OLD
RECIPE OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN FEAR
MARRIES ENVY, WHICH IS WHAT YOU
GET, AN ATTACK ON A WOMAN LIKE
THIS.
THIS. >> I GUESS THAT’S WHAT IT IS,
MIKE.
MIKE. I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO UNDERSTAND
IT.
IT. I MEAN, THEY HAVE ELEVATED THE
RIGHT.
RIGHT. >> SHE’S A STAR.
>> REALLY THE RIGHT HAS ELEVATED
HER TO THE POINT WHERE WE NOW
CALL HER AOC, RIGHT, AND SHE HAS
THESE INITIALS, THE SHORTENED
INITIALS NAME WHICH YOU DON’T
GET UNLESS YOU’RE REALLY A MAJOR
FIGURE AND SO SHE’S BECOME A
MAJOR FIGURE IN OUR POLITICS FOR
THE RIGHT.
THE RIGHT. BUT SHE’S A FRESHMAN
CONGRESSWOMAN WHO HAS ZERO POWER
RIGHT NOW, EXCEPT AS SOMETHING
OF A SPOKESMAN FOR THE, I GUESS,
FOR THE FRESHMAN CLASS, OR PART
OF THE FRESHMAN CLASS FOR THIS
NEW SORT OF WAVE OF ACTIVISTS
WHO HAVE COME INTO THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY, BUT THEY’RE
ALL OVER THE MAP.
THEY’RE NOT ALL DEMOCRATIC
SOCIALISTS.
SOCIALISTS. SHE JUST HAS A LOT OF SPARKLE.
SHE HAS A LOT OF THAT POLITICAL
X FACTOR THAT MAKES PEOPLE PAY
ATTENTION, AND THE RIGHT JUST
SEEMS TO HAVE ALMOST LOST ITS
MIND ABOUT HER.
>> I WOULD PUSH BACK A LITTLE
BIT ON THAT TO SAY THAT THE
RIGHT DIDN’T CREATE ALEXANDRIA
OCASIO CORTEZ.
OCASIO CORTEZ. SHE DEFEATED THE FOURTH RANKING
HOUSE DEMOCRAT AND BECAME A
FIXTURE OVERNIGHT.
FIXTURE OVERNIGHT. SHE APPEARED ON MANY PROGRAMS,
AND IT WASN’T THE RIGHT THAT
MADE HER THE PHENOMENON.
THEY RESPONDED TO THAT.
I AGREE WE SHOULD LISTEN TO WHAT
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO CORTEZ SAYS
AND NOT WHAT SHE WEARS OR WHAT
SHE SAID IN HIGH SCHOOL.
SHE SAYS WE SHOULD EXPROPUATE, A
PROPOSITION OFFERED BY FREDERICK
ENGELS IN THE 19th CENTURY.
SHE SAYS WE CAN INVOKE THE NEW
DEAL EVERY TIME TO PAY FOR
PROGRAMS UPWARDS OF $2 TRILLION
AND THE FED WILL LEND CREDIT TO
THAT EFFECT.
THAT EFFECT. WHAT SHE SAYS IS QUITE ENOUGH TO
DISCREDIT WHAT I BELIEVE ARE
IDEAS THAT ARE OF POORLY FOUNDED
AND WE CAN LEAVE WHAT SHE WEARS
IN THE HALLS OF CONGRESS.
>> HE BRINGS UP A GOOD POINT.
IT’S A LESSON, JOE TOUCHED ON
THIS EARLIER.
THIS EARLIER. WE’RE GOING TO ELECT A PRESIDENT
THAT’S GOING TO HAVE FOOTAGE
DOING A LOT WORSE THAN THAT.
TODAY’S GENERATION, IT’S BUILT
INTO THAT.
INTO THAT. AND YOU KNOW, FOR THEM TO NOT
UNDERSTAND, IT’S ONE THING IF
YOU’RE CURSING OUT THAT, OH, A
GIRL DANCING IN COLLEGE IS A
PROBLEM, THEY’RE GOING TO HAVE
FIGURE OUT THIS IS A WORLD
THAT’S GROWN UP WITH THIS THING,
AND EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING IS
GOING TO HAVE A HISTORY OF STUFF
THAT IS WHAT IT IS.
>> YEAH.
>> YEAH. WELL, RUTH MARCUS, EUGENE
ROBINSON, THANK YOU BOTH FOR
BEING ON THIS MORNING.
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