Adam Carolla: 'If Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was fat ... would anyone listen?'
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Mark Daniell
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Feb 04, 2022 • 2 days ago • 3 minute read •
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Photo by MANDEL NGAN /Getty Images
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Radio personality Adam Carolla found himself getting roasted on social media after claiming that controversial New York City Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez only grabs headlines because she’s attractive.
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“Here’s a quick thought experiment: If AOC was fat and in her 60s, would anyone listen to another thing she ever said?” Carolla asked Fox News host Sean Hannity .
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The talk show host, seeming to know that Carolla’s comments would set off a firestorm of criticism, responded by asking, “What do you mean by that?”
“She’s young, she’s vibrant and she’s beautiful and everyone’s always putting a mic in her face,” Carolla replied. “But her opinions are idiotic 95% of the time. I don’t think, if she was a middle-aged, heavyset woman, anyone would care what she had to say.”
Hannity didn’t buy Carolla’s argument, saying she’s “way more powerful than (Democratic House) Speaker (Nancy) Pelosi.”
“I’m not so sure I agree,” the conservative host said in response to Carolla’s remarks. “Now, I will say this: You can criticize her ideas — and I do, I think the Green New Deal is madness and insanity — but she’s got the whole Democratic Party following her.”
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AOC didn’t acknowledge Carolla’s comments, but Twitter was quick to criticize the former Dancing with the Stars contestant.
“I had completely forgotten he existed. I’m going to go ahead and continue with that,” one critic remarked, while another declared Carolla as “the last person I go to for punditry.”
Several others pointed to Carolla’s time hosting The Man Show , which was known for its use of female models.
“This guy literally had a show called The Man Show with women in bikinis jumping on trampolines,” one person jabbed.
“Women can’t exist in public without offending misogynists like Adam Carolla,” another raged. “First AOC was too young, then she was ‘just a bartender,’ and now people only listen to her because she’s cute? F— Adam Carolla.”
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This comes after AOC joked that Republicans are obsessed with her because she refuses to go out with them.
“If Republicans are mad they can’t date me they can just say that, instead of projecting their sexual frustrations onto my boyfriend’s feet,” she tweeted after former Donald Trump campaign advisor Steve Cortes criticized her for vacationing in Florida with her boyfriend.
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With 8.5 million Instagram fans and 12.8 million followers on Twitter, Ocasio-Cortez is one of the most watched Democrats in the United States. But her outspoken nature — she wore a white gown with “Tax the Rich” written on the back to last year’s Met Gala — and embrace of socialist policies have frequently made her a target of prominent Republicans, including former president Donald Trump, who called her a “real beauty” as he attacked her large-scale environmental plan, the Green New Deal.
“She knows as much about the environment — do we have any young children here? — as that young child over there,” Trump said during a campaign stop in Ohio in 2020. “I think he knows more. And she certainly knows nothing about the economy.”
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But in the book In Trump’s Shadow: The Battle for 2024 and the Future of the GOP , Trump reportedly said that Ocasio-Cortez makes old men in Congress “shiver in fear.”
“Let me tell you something about AOC. I’ve watched her walk down the halls of Congress, and I see these old men shiver in fear — they shiver in fear whenever they see her,” Trump said . “You want to know why? Because AOC has a base, just like me.”
Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal proposal was aimed at weaning the United States away from fossil fuels and helping curb greenhouse gas emissions. But critics of the plan said it would impact everything from ice cream and cheeseburgers to cars and your right to fly.
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