>> Tomi Lahren has received quite a bit of backlash over her Halloween costume because
she used Halloween as an opportunity to try to dunk on Representative Ocasio-Cortez.
But it backfired and there was a lot of backlash.
So here's what she tweeted out.
I decided to dress up as the person who scares me the most, the democratic dimwit darling,
socialist-loving, freedom-hating, former bartender herself AOC.
So then she posts a picture of her costume.
And then, of course, the backlash begins.
But before I get to the backlash, I do wanna share a small snippet of a recent debate that
I had with her at Politicon.
Because she said something that goes against what she actually practices in real life.
Take a look.
>> When we're talking about rhetoric, let's be fair, you coined me white power Barbie
a couple of years ago.
>> So, for believing and had never met me, had never met me.
So that's what a lot of conservatives go through is that you never met us, you never talk to
us, you look at our viewpoints.
And all the sudden you can say I don't agree with her politics.
You can say I don't agree with what she says, I don't like the facts that she uses.
I don't like her support for this president.
But when you blanketly just call somebody a white power Barbie or a white nationalist
because you disagree with their politics.
That's going to far.
>> So I did call her white power Barbie back in 2016.
I do wanna share that tweet with you, I told her, make no mistake white power Barbie, I'd
be just as vicious toward you in person.
And then that label did stick and people started using it, and she doesn't like it.
And so her argument is, you didn't even know me and you said all these terrible things
about me.
But she doesn't know AOC and she's saying that she's a dimwit, when in reality, she
is a woman in congress who is proposing detailed legislation.
Who is fighting for the disenfranchised, for the powerless.
And in the debate, she had a hard time understanding what anecdotal evidence is.
So for you to call someone else a dimwit, it just seems a little strange, ironic.
>> Yeah, so AOC, here's a incrediably strong woman who pulled off one of the greatest political
upsets in American history, literally, okay?
Who then has agreesively questioned Trump officials the point where even the right-wing
would well were a little impressed, okay.
And then single-handedly moved the green new deal into a national conversation.
So did other people fight on the climate crisis before?
Of course.
Ed Markey, Bernie Sanders, Governor Inslee, etc.
But she is the one that introduced the idea of the green New Deal.
She did a sit in in Pelosi's office and popularized it, right?
And so I know AOC a little bit from, obviously, the campaign and she was just democrat and
we had plenty of conversations.
And we prepared for some of the debates together, okay?
The crowdly debates, and she is absolutely on point on all of these policy issues.
She knew her stuff inside and out and arguably brilliant, but she's a young woman.
So they call her a dimwit anyway.
They call her that no matter what she does, no matter how detailed her proposals are,
no matter how good her questions are, no matter what she does.
They call her a dimwit.
I mean should you hear Don Young earlier in the show.
The guy is one of the dumbest people you've ever met.
I can say that about how many Republicans, Donald Trump are you kidding me?
The other day, when they got al-Baghdadi does a press conference and he's like, normally
go through a front door but the blast to this side of the compound?
Nobody would think that, normally you go knock, knock.
>> Brilliant, what a brilliant man.
>> You know what?
I think that, I'm not even gonna dignify Tomi Lahren's follishness by trying to justify
or qualify AOC's greatness.
When it is been documented and it will go down in the history books, right?
So there's no need to even say all of the great things that AOC has done because that's
why she's tweeting it.
Cuz she's jealous.
Because AOC has way many more followers than her.
She's got a cult following of people who really respect her and understand her.
She's got a group of haters that hate her because they're scared of her, not because
she's a dimwit.
But what I wanna say also is those of you who follow these conservatives and think that
these people are the people you wanna follow and respect and you listen to.
Read the tweet and when she called her a former bartender, she's talking about people that
go to work, right?
People that go to work and are not getting their just due.
And that's a lot of people in this country, right?
There is not a few people who are in the service industry.
The service industry's a big industry >> Yes.
>> That supports your daily- >> Your enjoyment.
>> And your existence every day, every where you go.
So first of all, she told you how could you say something about me without knowing me?
What about you don't know those immigrants that you talk about all the time?
You don't know Colin Kaepernick and you dissed him.
You don't know the people in the island of Puerto Rico and you've talked about them.
How dare you use your mouth to tell somebody, how could you talk about me without knowing
me?
You're not a real journalist, listen to the stuff that comes out of your mouth.
It is not based on facts, it's all emotion rhetoric to move the people who you indirectly
insult every day.
Because you don't believe they're intelligent enough to go do research and find out facts
about the things that you talk about.
And if you ask me, she didn't look like AOC, she looked like a young Sarah Palin.
And that was right on home girl.
>> So first of all, preach it, Aida.
Okay.
But saying well look guys, I don't have a problem with the costume.
So you wanna dress up as AOC, who cares?
I don't care either Karl Marx thing I don't care at all, right?
And I'm not nitpicking any of that.
The dimwit saying is part of a talking point that they do to purposely belittle her.
>> Yes.
>> And it will say don't do to men.
Keep it real, okay?
They've called Bernie every name in the book, but they haven't called him dimwit, right?
So why do they say that about AOC and you know it and their policies are nearly identical?
Okay, and the bartender thing.
And so a lot of people went off on her on Twitter because of the bartender thing.
And so she had to back-pedal out of that and say well look, that's the least objectionable
thing about her.
Okay.
>> Yeah, this is what she said.
I mean this truly and sincerely, being a former bartender is the best and most admirable thing
about AOC.
>> Yeah, yeah, yeah.
In other words, back-pedal, back-pedal, back-pedal.
I got caught basically looking down on people.
>> But when you look at AOCs tweets, the people who question her intelligence are always the
dumbest people on the planet.
Insulting her, calling her unintelligent, and then you go through their timelines and
you're like-
>> I know, Aida, but you know what?
That idealogy, that way of belittling AOC unfortunately does catch on with people who
aren't necessarily bad people but they're not as politically savvy.
Maybe they are not paying close attention.
I've heard that criticism about AOC regurgitated by people who just don't know better.
And it's sick because this is a way of tearing women down.
This is a way of allowing for sexism to persist.
>> Exactly.
And to your point Aida, the people who are saying it almost always back Donald Trump,
the guy who thinks that windmills cause cancer because of their noise.
And where I thought the Kurds betrayed cuz they didn't show up at Normandy.
>> Is evil.
Hillary's evil.
Elizabeth's not assertive.
AOC's a dimwit.
Ilhan is, and it goes on