It started this week with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wondering aloud if Nancy Pelosi was giving her seats on House committees in order to keep her too busy to speak out on other issues. Then AOC moved on to playing a race card against Pelosi, which later culminated with the New York congresswoman insinuating that the House Speaker is trying to get her and her “squad” targeted with death threats.
A hot take in The Atlantic says that reaction to that is overhyping the situation:
Overhyped?
When you call out the leader of your caucus and the current Speaker a racist….the feud is not overhyped. https://t.co/TUQ3xIjDgg
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) July 12, 2019
A lot of things are overhyped these days, but we’re not sure the Pelosi/AOC catfight is one of them.
And this is accurate.@AOC is not attacking @SpeakerPelosi any different than she has attacked numerous Republicans.
But the response has been…lets say…different. https://t.co/V1Ye8wynrv
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) July 12, 2019
It’s not “overhyping” when it’s AOC talking about Trump or any Republican, but it is when she’s using similar language against Nancy Pelosi? Sounds like the media’s going to be trying to help put out this particular fire all weekend:
-OR- Wherein The Atlantic proclaims allegations of racism to be meaningless.
— WheelmanForHire (@WheelmanForHire) July 12, 2019
Some accusations of racism are less serious than others, apparently.
It would be called a "GOP Civil War" if they had (R) next to their names…
— Greg Ehrhardt (@Grege333) July 12, 2019
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"THIS IS FINE."
— Steven [Clump of Cells] Hawkins (@stevenshawkins) July 12, 2019
When will CNN say that Republicans have pounced on the Cortez Democrats and the Pelosi Democrats calling each other racists? ??? https://t.co/uNN7upLQsb
— Ari Fantis (@rprez2012) July 12, 2019
The Atlantic IRL pic.twitter.com/hACWTzLQJm
— Thanos' Plan (@GrowtheFKUP) July 12, 2019
If the feud doesn’t end soon, the media will be reporting a whole bunch of Republican “pouncing” and “seizing.”
Why have Republicans not pounced yet?
— TomDCL (@TomDCL) July 12, 2019
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