The 'ravenous hysteria' over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just reached a new level of crazy

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

The ‘ravenous hysteria’ over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just reached a new level of crazy

By Margaret Sullivan
Media columnist
March 4 at 11:30 AM

Sometime over the past few days, the overreaction to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez moved from somewhat strange to downright bizarre — and, at times, more than a little scary.

On Greg Gutfeld’s show on Fox News, commentator Katherine Timpf lit into the 29-year-old congresswoman from New York over her championing of the Green New Deal, quipping that the climate-change initiative might even lead to cannibalism.

“I don’t want to eat people, Greg, and I don’t want people to eat me,” Timpf said. “AOC, do you want people to eat you?”

At last week’s CPAC conference, Sebastian Gorka took his shot, inspired by Ocasio-Cortez’s recent suggestions that the environment would benefit from restrictions on factory farming and suggestions that Americans consider eating less red meat.

“They want to rebuild your home, they want to take away your hamburgers,” said Gorka, the former Breitbart editor and former Trump administration official known for his Islamophobic ideas.

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“It feels like an extra job,” she told New Yorker editor David Remnick in a new interview. “I’ve got a full-time job in Congress and then I moonlight as America’s greatest villain or as the new hope.”

And “this ravenous hysteria,” she said, “is really getting to a level that is kind of out of control. It’s dangerous and even scary. I have days when it seems some people want to stoke just enough of it to have just enough plausible deniability if something happens to me.”

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[marylandblue]

1. Is this an out-take from Soylent Green?

[PatrickforO]

2. NOTHING had better happen to AOC.

[dewsgirl]

3. I really hope she has some kind of protection.

[catrose]

4. Yes, we've noticed

What can we do to keep her (and other Congresswomen) from being pilloried like Hillary and, a generation earlier, Eleanor Roosevelt?

Take a vow not to believe any story accusing a woman, up to and including her shooting someone on 5th Avenue?

Inform the media that your default position is that you believe no story accusing women in the public eye without serious proof--and maybe not then? That you see what they're trying to do these women and you're not having it ever again?

[Thomas Hurt]

5. She better watch her back, the right will be working up a Hilary Redux smear campaign.

[Blue Owl]

6. Oh for fuck's sake...

These FOX/CPAC idiots just keep snowballing into an avalanche of insanity...