Posted on 03/21/2019 7:59:05 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
What’s in a name? Everything for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The New York Democrat blasted Fox News host Laura Ingraham and her guest for mocking how she pronounced her name and saying she does so because it’s a “Latina thing.”
“If by ‘the Latina thing,’ she means I actually do the work instead of just talk about it, then yeah, I’m doing ‘the Latina thing,’” she wrote on her Twitter page late Wednesday. “Unless of course she‘s talking about being multilingual, which we know isn’t a ‘Latina thing.’ It’s a ‘21st century’ thing.”
Ocasio-Cortez also said that Fox News’ hosts incorrectly pronounce her name as “Cortez,” because that sounds “more ‘stereotypically’ Hispanic + probably incites more ‘anxiety’ for them.”
“Pro Tip: My last name is not ‘Cortez,’ just as theirs isn’t ‘Ingra’ or ‘Carl’ or ‘Hann,'” she said, referring to Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity.
Ingraham, on her Fox News show “The Ingraham Angle” on Tuesday, asked guest Joe diGenova if he had noticed how when Ocasio-Cortez pronounces her name “does she take on that Obama, Obama put on accents?”
“She does the Latina thing where she does her, you know, ‘Anastasio Ocasio-Cortez,'” said diGenova, a conservative lawyer, exaggerating the pronunciation.
Ingraham went on to call Ocasio-Cortez the “It Girl, and I mean girl in a very mature way.”
Ocasio-Cortez continued to school the two on the correct use of her name.
“My last name is Ocasio-Cortez. Full stop. That’s my name. No, you can’t say ‘Cortez.’ I’ve never used that in my life,” she said. “‘Cortez’ is referring to someone else. Even if they‘re trying to be rude + wrong, my dad’s last name was Ocasio anyway. (His name was hyphenated too, though.)”
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Sandy cortez......perfect.....
Actress On Call
Hann-ity
Ingra-ham
Carl-son
In Sandyland’s world.
Illegals voted illegally, she calls them “my constituents”.
OKAY, Let’s see the BIRTH CERTIFICATE. Nothing else will do.
AOC - Pronounced AWK!!!
I called her that to a friend who I knew is a conservative and he cracked up.
I look forward to calling her “former-congessman” or “convicted ex-congressman” because it’s coming.
I’ve just been using Kotex. At least I capitalize the ‘K’. That’s kind of a big deal when I speak of those I have little to no respect for.
Occasional-Cortex
MABA
Make Alexandria Barmaid Again!
Like the handle. Are you in the once great state of NV?
Ok I have a new name for her “C”
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again... teeth like a Clydesdale.
Alexandria Missing-Cortex.
Yep, in the primary. I seem to recall there was no opponent in the general election. This is what bothers me about the Republicans. They don’t bother to run candidates in some of these districts. Even if the chances are slim, you never know, lighting might strike and they could win.
Wow, it was just about her actual name.
I thought she was upset about our use of “Occasional Cortex” or “Occasional Kotex” - or is that HER use of them?
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