Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fights back after articles wrongly claimed to show nude selfie
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As freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez adjusts to the limelight of Capitol Hill, the New York Democrat's affinity for sharing the experience on social media has generated overwhelming interest, not just from her fans but her critics as well.
Her interview Sunday on the highly-rated CBS program “60 Minutes” apparently didn't provide enough content for an internet troll who generated a false narrative featuring a purported nude photo of the self-described "radical," progressive superstar.
Since bursting onto the political scene with a major primary upset of a veteran Democrat, Ocasio-Cortez, 29, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress has become a prime target for her detractors, mainly conservatives, on the internet.
Her latest high-profile moment came Wednesday evening, as Ocasio-Cortez slammed the conservative media website The Daily Caller for spreading a story in a tweet that stated: “Here’s The Photo Some Described As A Nude Selfie Of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.”
The photo is not of Ocasio-Cortez.
GOP have been losing their mind + frothing at the mouth all week, so this was just a matter of time.
There is also a Daily Mail reporter (Ruth Styles) going to my boyfriend’s relative’s homes+offering them cash for “stories.”
Women in leadership face more scrutiny. Period.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
✔ @AOC
For those out of the loop, Republicans began to circulate a fake nude photo of me. The @ DailyCaller reposted it (!) and refused to indicate it was fake in the title as well.
Completely disgusting behavior from Conservative outlets.
No wonder they defended Kavanaugh so fiercely.
The Daily Caller responded by not only deleting the tweet, but also removing the full story from its website -- excusing itself as the third media outlet to publish stories about a post on Reddit and 4chan, where the photo first appeared and falsely charged that in 2016 Ocasio-Cortez shared the photo to her Instagram account, where a woman’s breasts reflected off a bathtub faucet.
The Daily Caller
✔ @DailyCaller
As soon as editors noticed the twitter headline, we rapidly had it deleted and fixed. The story itself is otherwise no different than what HuffPo and Vice published.
We regret the error, as the intent was to inform our audience that a fake image was circulating online.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
✔ @AOC
GOP have been losing their mind + frothing at the mouth all week, so this was just a matter of time.
There is also a Daily Mail reporter (Ruth Styles) going to my boyfriend’s relative’s homes+offering them cash for “stories.”
Women in leadership face more scrutiny. Period. https:// twitter.com/asteadwesley/s tatus/1083082924524744704 …
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
✔ @AOC
a) this is not an apology
b) you’ve been posting hysteric, misrepresentative articles about me nonstop - many within 24h.
The @ DailyCaller , funded by @ TuckerCarlson (at @ FoxNews ), has a well-documented relationship with white supremacy.
Unsurprising they’re targeting me.
The Daily Caller
✔ @DailyCaller
As soon as editors noticed the twitter headline, we rapidly had it deleted and fixed. The story itself is otherwise no different than what HuffPo and Vice published.
We regret the error, as the intent was to inform our audience that a fake image was circulating online. https:// twitter.com/aoc/status/108 3178169044213761 …
The photo is not of Ocasio-Cortez, but rather another woman who was once caught in political controversy – Sydney Leathers, who suffered 30 minutes of inside-the-beltway fame as a sexting partner of disgraced New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner.
Leathers blogged an apology to Ocasio-Cortez, writing she was “deeply sorry,” admitting the photo was “an old picture of mine where I’m soaking in the tub, feet up, candle lit, weed vape in hand.”
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The Daily Caller has always been a scumbag fake news outfit.
Personally, I could care less what Ocasio-Cortez thinks or does. I find her inane and nonsensical commentaries not worth paying attention to...
Conservatives are terrified of her and are trying to do anything to discredit her. I'm sure she expected this.
Nope. That's just projection. Her own party fears her antics.
She is no threat AT ALL to conservatives. She is a threat to the dem establishment though. A threat that dems have done nothing about in over 2 years. Young progressives are still pissed about shenanigans in the 2016 DNC primary and AOC is how they are getting their revenge.
It is amusing how many Democrats don't recognize her for the threat she is to THEM.
I freaking LOVE that!
All American patriots should be terrified of her.
Why would anyone be terrified of her? Her economic ideas are quite moderate and have a proven track record of success.
Amen!
AOC is clueless and her ideas suck.
Hope she climbs the ladder in the Democratic Party!
Her own party fears her antics.
No - her own party is fine, it’s her fellow congress people that are nervous. That’s not necessarily a bad thing.
Not of her personally--just her loony ideas!
I'm really confused here. Why would American patriots be terrified of her? Because you don't agree with her agenda? I don't agree with it either, and I'm an American patriot, but she doesn't terrify me.
The progressive Palin.
Can she see New Jersey from her front porch?
Unlike Palin, I'll bet you she could name some news sources she reads though.
Actually, the population of Alaska isn't much bigger than Cortez' congressional district in NY
Alaska - 739,795
14th NY - 691,715
She quit halfway through, she is a quitter. Not the brightest bulb either. AOC is intelligent, and she is owning the frightened old white farts every time.
By the way, it isn't too hard to serve (half a term) when the 'largest' part of the state is frozen tundra.
An intelligent person would not claim that unemployment is slow because everyone has two jobs.
An intelligent person wouldn't claim that there is no upper-middle-class in America any more.
Nothing.
BC doesn't hand out Cum Laude graduation recognition. She had a 3.5-3.7 GPA.
'Palin became governor'
And quit halfway through her term. Who knew being a governor would be so hard? She's trailer trash.
O'casio Cortez supports literacy including, "Punctuation For All". /S
Spouting lies about her and posting fake pics backfires on the gop.
A gop scared shitless ba a 29 year old freshman congresswoman...
A pet peeve of mine, it would be nice if folks could be coherent in their postings.
Especially if falsely saying Ocasio-Cortez is not as smart as they are...
She is The Honorable US Congresswoman for New York's 14th District.
She is my Representative in Congress who beat a long term incumbent.
She wasn't elected by idiots. Don't like her? Move to The Bronx and vote.
AOC is fond of saying stupid things. She will be treated accordingly.
Which she proves she didn't learn anything from with her desire to repeat the Carter era tax rates that lead to a massive recession.
Scared shitless of a fool who thinks unemployment is low because everyone is working two or more jobs?
LOL!
I am more scared shitless of people that think trump magically went into office and made those numbers happen.
Trump certainly played a role in those numbers, as did Obama.
Sorry but all trump has accomplished is de-regulation and tax breaks.
Nothing attributed to moving the economy forward.
I think for some reason, it is moving along despite him.
If you believe that tax breaks for businesses haven't contributed to lower unemployment, you would be wrong.
Deregulation isn't necessarily a bad thing. I have never understood why people automatically assume it is.
Contribute? Maybe. Have they been a major impact? No
So job growth has roughly been the same for the last nine years. There has been no major spurt because of it.
When they de-regulate laws that are in place to keep air and water clean, yes it is a bad thing.
The same laws that cleaned up rivers and air quality.
Okay, what specific deregulation are you objecting to, and how have they affected clean air and water?
I agree but I also first highly question why we had that regulation to begin with before any regulation is amended or abolished. (most regulations are meant to protect someone or something) I also believe part of our law makers job should be to go thru old laws still on the books and get rid of some out of date and or crazy laws that remain on the books for a by gone era.
https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/top-craziest-laws-still-on-the-books
If you believe that tax breaks for businesses haven't contributed to lower unemployment, you would be wrong.
Here again , I agree, but here again, I ask, at what cost ? In my world you dont take a cut in pay, then go build much of anything, (except perhaps your load balance) including a great country.
I expected a big bump from president trump in the economy for no other reason than the business people of this country have been waiting for this. Some other business man who seems to believe money is the answer for anything.
I disagree, honesty, integrity, and responsibility is very important to building anything worth having or being a part of. Trump's 24/7/365 "negotiating tactics" to me grow wearisome. I dont doubt the trump shadow will still premiate for some time after this mans departure as well. Class has been replaced by crass, how long that lasts is yet to be seen.
Just my opinions.
I was in objection to the way trump said the intended requirements starting point was /is two degraulations for ever one new one. WTF ? That sounds like a school boy approach to a very serious situation.
IF he would have said and intended to go thru the regulations one at a time and review what was necessary and what is bullshit and just get rid of the bs ones. That I would have considered to be a responsible action on the part of the president.
I do not like how this man operates and I doubt I ever will.
Nice list.
It actually leads me to believe that you weren't really all that upset or you could have just rattled a couple of items off instead of Googling it.
Actually, I have had several articles on certain ones.
A list is better for people that refuse to see the truth.
Sandy doth protest too much.
No, the scumbags at The Daily Caller got caught being no good lying creeps.
I heard someone on tv this morning refer to her as a "female Donald Trump". I wouldn't wish that affliction on any human being in this world.
I am withholding judgement on her until something concrete develops. Right now it's just a media show.
She's a female Vladimir Lenin.
You're scared of her.
She is a nutjob. Nothing more, nothing less.
Her ideas are stupid, and I hope she climbs the rungs UP the Democratic Party ladder.
She will be as effective for the GOP if she does climb as old DWS was as head of the DNC!
Conservatives have always feared strong, intelligent, formidable women.
Ms. Cortez knows very much. She has much to learn and she knows it. Could she be the 'new' Nancy Pelosi?
"female Donald Trump." ? ? ?
Only in the sense she doesn't have a pecker either.
Intellectually, Cortez is like a Tesla---Trump is a Paramecium.
Yep. Let her get her feet wet.
Kind of ironic the conservatives use to say that is what was needed, not career politicians. It is what some said about trump. All the sudden now they think experience matters. Unless of course it is someone that would push their agenda.
It seems that I have my own conservative cheering section on NT. AOC understands the finer points of economics which terrify Republicans raised on a diet of supply-side economic lies.
I'd rather she remain a progressive instead of being an establishment Democrat like Nancy.
Some will fight to the death arguing that supply side economics is the only way to go.
When in reality it only concentrates wealth.
So which Democratic President and Democratic Congress has ever changed that?
I would argue that changes are slow and implemented.
A hundred years ago if an elderly person got sick or needed a surgery, they were screwed.
Now we have Medicare.
Call me an optimist, I still think one of these days pot will be legal.
Maybe one day, people will have medical care without having to worry about insurance or payments.
Can one person do it? No.
I do think Obama tried, even though most were against him.
trump is not even trying to help working people. Taking away policy designed to help the over all, is not in fact helping.
It is taking advantage of the situation.
So, even though the majority of Democrats appear to be against supply-side economics, they did nothing about it.
Got it.
I guess the difference is the majority of Republicans don't complain about SSE and then do nothing about it.
I don't even think all Democrats are against it.
Personally I like capitalism. Yet at the same time, it needs rules and regulations to remain in check.
I don't think all Democrats are against SSE, just the majority.
I wouldn't even go that far.
AOC the lightning rod for the right wing? The right wing male dudes keep putting on the condoms backwards. There it is. There you have it.
Whatever. The dems have many new talent women with new/fresh ideas. Good for them and good for the US.
The GOP...heh-heh-heh-well they got Marsha Blackburn, Liz Cheney and the venerable Virginia Foxx. heh-heh-heh.