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Fox News host Laura Ingraham and Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sparred on Twitter Friday, and not for the first time, either.
It all started when Ocasio-Cortez tweeted about the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on marginalized communities and communities of color, writing, 'COVID deaths are disproportionately spiking in Black + Brown communities. Why? Because the chronic toll of redlining, environmental racism, wealth gap, etc. ARE underlying health conditions. Inequality is a comorbidity. COVID relief should be drafted with a lens of reparations.'
Ingraham retweeted the congresswoman's call to action, adding, 'The Doctor of Mixology will save us!' in a reference to Ocasio-Cortez's former job as a bartender.
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'Didn't you just put a doctor on your show who faked their employment at Lenox Hill hospital and touted a COVID 'treatment' that you tweeted & Twitter had to remove because a man may have died trying self-administer it?' Ocasio-Cortez replied. 'I'm sorry, why are you on TV again?'
She followed up with a link to a report that Twitter did, in fact, remove a tweet from the primetime host that promoted the drug hydroxychloroquine as having been used by one hospital in New York with 'very promising results.' Ingraham went so far as to compare the patient to the Biblical Lazarus, a man believed to have risen from the dead by Jesus.
'Typical liberal,' Ingraham branded her. 'Doesn't know the meaning of the phrase 'admitting privileges' versus 'employed by'–maligning a man who has spent his life teaching and saving lives of late stage cancer patients.'
The duo fought on the platform last August, too. During that interaction, Ocasio-Cortez called Ingraham a 'neo-Nazi fan favorite' after the Fox News host corrected the grammar in one of her tweets.
© Tom Williams/Pool/Getty Images Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) during a hearing before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on August 24, 2020 in Washington, DC.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., took to Instagram on Tuesday night and suggested that the states in the GOP-controlled south need to be 'liberated.' Foxnews.com AOC: Country will heal with the 'actual liberation of southern states' from GOP control. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talks about congressional hearings, being an object of obsession for Fox News and interacting with her colleagues ac.
Fox News contributor Joe Concha likened recent comments made by Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Nazi Germany—and called on President-elect Joe Biden to denounce her.
'The bottom line is with Joe Biden, he talked about unity in his speech, and it was a nice speech, but then he has to follow that with actions,' Concha, a media reporter for The Hill, said during an appearance on Fox & Friends.
Concha said Biden needed to start by 'calling out' members of the Democratic Party and singled out Ocasio-Cortez, who won a second term in the House.
Concha referenced a tweet posted by the congresswoman on Friday, where she predicted that 'Trump sycophants' would delete evidence of their affiliation with the president in order to 'downplay or deny their complicity' after he leaves office.
On Fox & Friends, Joe Concha compares @AOC to Nazi Germany and demands that Joe Biden denounce her. pic.twitter.com/yZ7AWWkHfz
— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) November 9, 2020'Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future?' Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. 'I foresee decent probability of many deleted Tweets, writings, photos in the future.'
Concha went as far as to suggest that Ocasio-Cortez's tweet was as heinous as the practices of Adolf Hitler's regime, which persecuted Jews and other groups of people and infamously compiled lists of enemies of the state.
'When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for instance, starts putting out tweets about compiling lists around who supported this president, I remember a country back in the 1930s that also tried the whole list thing... oh yeah, that's right, it was the Third Reich,' Concha said.
'Until [Biden] starts calling out members of his own party, and says this needs to stop if we're going to bring the whole country together, those 71 million people aren't going to believe a damn thing around unity if we keep hearing lawmakers speak in those terms.'
Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future? I foresee decent probability of many deleted Tweets, writings, photos in the future
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 6, 2020
Concha's comments on Monday were posted on Twitter by Bobby Lewis, who live-tweets Fox & Friends. The clip has already amassed more than 10,000 views.
It came after Biden, in his first address after he was elected president on Saturday, said he would seek to unify the nation and promised to govern on behalf of all Americans.
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'For all those of you who voted for President Trump, I understand the disappointment tonight. I've lost a couple of times myself. But now, let's give each other a chance,' Biden said.
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'It's time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature, see each other again, listen to each other again. And to make progress we have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies.'
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Ocasio-Cortez and the Biden-Harris transition have been contacted for comment.