Tuesday, July 01, 2025

YOU'LL NEVER BELIEVE WHY AOC IS EVIL NOW

Republicans in Congress are working on a massive transfer of wealth from the non-rich to the rich, so the Murdoch media empire has a mission: persuade Americans that Democratic critics of this redistribution are the real elitists. So here's a new Fox story about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:
AOC's childhood nickname revealed amid 'Bronx girl' claims

Ocasio-Cortez's suburban-toned nickname appears to be at odds with her tough 'Bronx girl' persona
Yes, Fox is serious about this.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s tough Bronx persona is under fresh scrutiny with a resurfaced childhood nickname from her suburban upstate New York upbringing casting doubt on that publicly portrayed image....

The 35-year-old "Squad" member wrote in part on X last week: "I’m a Bronx girl. You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast. Respectfully," she said, referring to the president’s upbringing in Queens as she called for his impeachment over his decision to bypass Congress in authorizing U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

Ocasio-Cortez was born in the Bronx but moved to Yorktown – which is nearly an hour outside New York City -- when she was 5 years old and went on to attend Yorktown High School, from where she graduated in 2007.

She was considered an accomplished student there and well-thought of by teacher Michael Blueglass, according to a 2018 report by local media outlet Halston Media News.

"There, known by students and staff as ‘Sandy,’ she was a member of the Science Research Program taught by Michael Blueglass," the report states....

After high school, Ocasio-Cortez attended Boston University, where she majored in economics and international relations, per the report.

Ocasio-Cortez’s "Sandy" nickname — which carries a more suburban and preppy tone — appears to undercut her politically crafted image as a tough, inner-city fighter....
(Emphasis added.)

Really? The nickname Sandy is preppy? So back in 1973, when Bruce Springsteen was a penniless jamoke on the verge of losing his record deal, he wrote a song about a preppy?



Many of us knew years ago that Ocasio-Cortez was called Sandy when she was a bartender. It was widely reported at the time of her first electoral victory in 2018. (Of course, Republicans also attack her for having been a mere bartender. They get you coming and going.)

A similar story was published by the New York Post yesterday.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez‘s childhood nickname from her time growing up in Westchester County recently resurfaced as the far-left “Squad” lawmaker has faced scrutiny over her “Bronx girl” claims.

The progressive pol was known as “Sandy” as a youngster in Yorktown Heights and was affectionately remembered as a top-notch student in the school district that’s about 34 miles north of the Boogie-Down.
(Please note the racist implication that AOC could have been either a "Bronx girl" or a good student -- not both.)

Ocasio-Cortez has never denied that her family moved to a (not-posh) suburb when she was a child. But the Murdoch press wants its audience to see her as the dangerous elitist. It's doing the same thing to Zohran Mamdani: Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal published a fairly straightforward profile of Zohran Mamdani, the son of a college professor and a maker of non-blockbuster films, but editors added a headline that claimed Mamdani "emerged from a world of privilege."

I think this 2018 story is the only proper response to that:


Each of Rupert Murdoch’s children is set to receive at least $2bn from the sale of 21st Century Fox to Disney, making two of them the new world’s youngest billionaires.

At $71.3bn, the sale is one of the biggest media deals in history.

... at least 17% of the revenue will go directly to the children of Rupert Murdoch, 21st Century Fox’s owner....

The direct beneficiaries of the trust are Rupert Murdoch’s six children, including those of his ex-wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch, Grace and Chloe who are aged 17 and 15 respectively.
But ... but ... AOC's mom sold the family's house at a profit after owning it for twenty years! SO WHO'S THE REAL ELITIST, LIBS???


Ocasio-Cortez's response to this was on point:


Though I also like this response:


No one calls Republicans on this -- certainly no one in the mainstream media, or most of the Democratic Party. The Murdoch family is worth $24.1 billion, according to Forbes. Democrats should mention this every time a Murdoch media property tries to portray a middle-class or even upper-middle-class Democrat as an elitist.
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