It has been considered a "new low" in journalism for Fox News host, Laura Ingraham, and her guest, Joe DiGenova, to have mocked Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the show Tuesday evening for the way the freshman Congresswoman pronounces her own name. For this, they got mightily burned by the AOC on Twitter.
During the The Ingraham Angle March 20 show, Ingraham made a go at the young Democrat by referring to the way she says her name, in what came across as a racist and stereotypical manner. She referred the New York representative as the "It Girl," meaning it in a "mature way," and "juice" of the Democratic party.
Her guest commentator, former United States attorney, DiGenova, took up her statement and piped in, mockingly pronouncing the AOC's name in his approximation of a Latino accent, purposely bungling saying her first name. He then proceeds to say his own name in an Italian accent, saying the AOC was "going to love that" when he would do that.
With her characteristic whiplash wit, Ocasio-Cortez responded bitingly on Twitter with a series of posts expressing her angst. In one, she referred to their inability to grasp the "idea" that in these modern times "someone might dare" to converse with an accent unlike theirs.
"If by 'the Latina Thing'" AOC posted, Ingraham meant she (AOC) did the "work" as opposed to merely speaking of it, then she said "yeah, I'm doing 'the Latina thing'."
The passionate Republican also went into how "they" dared to avoid pronouncing their own names "in a wrong accent" and dared not "mangle" their own names to allow her to feel better "instead" of making her take a look "inside" herself to realize why something seemingly trivial as a "person's name"
would make her feel "uncomfortable."
Then she slammed them with "This is an outrage."
In another tweet, she also dealt with the Fox network saying that it liked saying her name wrong, as "Cortez" enlarging on how that name sounded more "Hispanic."
She told off the network with her comment on the fact that her name was "not 'Cortez'" in the same way that "theirs isn't 'Ingra'..."
Ingraham's behavior was just characteristic of her brand of journalism which is losing it's hold over viewers. It is remembered that last March 2018, she had made a mockery of David Hogg receiving multiple rejections from colleges. Hogg, it is remembered, is one of the survivors of the Parkland shooting incident.
In retaliation, the activist had gotten numerous advertisers to withdraw their advertisements during her show. Although she later said she was sorry for that, what she had done---and said---could no longer be taken back.
