The centerpiece of the right-wing propaganda machine, FOX News, is notorious for not only its incessant poor-shaming condescension but the casual cruelty that accompanies it.
Their latest target is our nation’s youngest ever-elected Congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who recently admitted that she can’t afford an apartment in Washington since she quit her bartending job to run for Congress and won’t begin drawing a Congressional salary until she’s sworn in this January.
The vapid hyenas at FOX did a segment this morning where they mocked the young democratic socialist, who worked as a bartender before running for office, for not being able to afford the sky-high cost of living in D.C.
Dripping with snark and purposefully mispronouncing her name, they could barely contain their glee that the socialist needed money, because in their perverse worldview all socialists are just jealous of the wealthy and not those who strive for a more equal and just society.
Here, I pulled the clip pic.twitter.com/oHeESzdC8u
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) November 9, 2018
Even worse, they insinuated that she had purchased the clothing that she wore for interviews and photoshoots and is now crying poverty after squandering her money, which is not at all how it works.
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Also, they really seem to think that those expensive clothes she wore for an interview *were actually purchased by her,* acting like they don't know how magazine shoots go.
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) November 9, 2018
It’s about what you would expect from FOX, whose fundamental purpose is to defend the status quo and shift the blame for the suffering of the American middle class away from the scheming plutocrats and towards more ideologically convenient scapegoats, like illegal immigrants.
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But Ocasio-Cortez wasn’t about to let them get away with their rude dismissal of the very real woes that millions of Americans struggle with every day, taking to Twitter to call them out and set the record straight in a series of defiant tweets.
1. @FoxNews, why can’t any of your anchors say my name correctly? It’s been 5 months.
2. It is bizarre to see 1%-salaried anchors laugh at the US housing crisis.
3. Never purchased pricey clothes + always told my story. But repeating lies until they are believed is your thing. https://t.co/Py5aXFi3Z4
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) November 9, 2018
40% of ALL Americans currently struggle to pay for one basic need like food or rent.
As much as @FoxNews likes to mock the working-class, the real scandal is that at the wealthiest point in our history, we are at one of our most unequal.
Most Americans are barely scraping by.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) November 9, 2018
Nearly half the American people can’t afford to pay rent or buy groceries while the richest Americans have seen their already monstrous wealth balloon as they take more and more of the pie for themselves while leaving the rest of us with crumbs.
That’s why we need leaders like Ocasio-Cortez; young people who actually know what matters to everyday Americans and who actually have their interests at heart.
