Author James Piereson, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, said it best last August: "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has emerged from the Bronx as the newest socialist celebrity and is traveling the country singing the virtues of socialism, as if no one has heard those songs before."
Ocasio-Cortez should be called out for what this latest socialist phenomenon really is: 'Occasional Cortex and the Brainiacs', the brainiacs being the white-garbed Democrat women who made fools of themselves desperately clamoring for attention at last week's State of the Union address.
"Singing the virtues of socialism", AOC style means promising her largely millennial following free stuff."By the afternoon of Feb. 7, Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., removed the document from her website without explanation but following backlash and even ridicule over the radical plans outlined within it, including a call to "eliminate emissions from cows or air travel"-- which would functionally ban the latter--and to provide "economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work." "The document vanished just hours after Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., formally unveiled a "Green New Deal" resolution that has so far attracted 67 Democratic co-sponsors in the House. It's a nonbinding measure that is less detailed than the now-deleted FAQ document but calls for a complete and speedy overhaul of the nation's energy, transportation, and farming sectors in order to eliminate carbon emissions in the coming decades. "But on Saturday morning, chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti tweeted that the FAQ page was indeed posted by the Ocasio-Cortez staff but was done so in error. He called the page "an early draft of a FAQ that was clearly unfinished and that doesn't represent the GND resolution got published to the website by mistake (idea was to wait for launch, monitor q's, and rewrite that FAQ before publishing)." Ocasio-Cortez later Saturday admitted the same, tweeting at a Washington Post reporter, "There was also a draft version that got uploaded + taken down. There's also draft versions floating out there."
[Related: Ocasio-Cortez unveils her 'Green New Deal'] "A policy adviser to Ocasio-Cortez, though, told Fox News Friday night that the claims were some kind of hoax perpetuated by Republicans. "Robert Hockett, professor of law and finance at Cornell University, appearing on "Tucker Carlson Tonight," called the contents of the now-missing blog post "some kind of document that somebody other than us has been circulating."
"Hockett said Ocasio-Cortez does not endorse the idea of paying people "unwilling to work" and does not want to ban airplane travel. "He said Ocasio-Cortez "tweeted it out to laugh at it."
"Talking to my wife last evening I suggested that I believe that too much attention is being given to the absurdity of 'Ocrazio' Cortez and her seemingly stupid ideas, and in fact it seems like she is encouraging others, the equivalent "lost flatulence in a windstorm" mentalities to come forward and spout stupidity equal to or more stupid than that of 'Ocrazio'. Those who agree, are right on the money about AOC being a distraction, and it becomes more apparent every day that it's a whole movement of Send In The Clowns, and to a great degree, too many of us (objecting Americans) have laughed and viewed it as an amusing deterioration of the anti- American Democrat party, when in fact she is the diversion while the real haters are behind the curtain reloading."
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Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years’ experience in the print media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared on Rush Limbaugh, Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com.
