Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has spoken out after video emerged appearing to show House Republican Lauren Boebert engaging in what the New York congresswoman described as “sexually lewd acts” in a Colorado theater on September 10.
Boebert and a male companion were thrown out of the Buell Theatre in Denver after repeatedly vaping, using a cell phone and “causing a disturbance” during a performance of musical Beetlejuice.
Surveillance footage from inside the theater appeared to show Boebert’s male accomplice groping her breasts, and then being groped in turn by the Republican firebrand. In a statement, Boebert apologized for her behavior, which she claimed “fell short of my values,” but made no reference to the alleged sexual acts.
Ocasio-Cortez responded to the controversy in a one-minute video posted to her 323,000 TikTok followers on Thursday, in response to a viewer’s question.
She commented: "All I gotta say is I can’t go out to lunch in Florida in my free time, not doing anything, just eating outside and it’s wall-to-wall Fox News coverage and then you have a member of Congress engaging is sexually lewd acts in a public theater and they got nothing to say.”
“I danced to Phoenix once in college and it was like all over the place. But putting on a whole show of their own at Beetlejuice and there’s nothing? I’m just saying be consistent. That’s all I’m asking for. Equal treatment. I don’t expect it, but come on.”
So democrats are the prudes now? I get the point of the article, hypocrisy, but Republicans don’t come off in these stories as the bad ones
Why is asking for equal treatment prudish?
Read what she said again. She doesn’t spend time talking about how disgusting Boebert is, she doesn’t call her names, she doesn’t call for her resignation, she doesn’t spend time whinging about the children, she doesn’t do any of the things that would be done to her if she did something like this.
She simply noted that the reaction to this is less than what she has endured over lesser actions.
I’m having a hard time grasping how that amounts to being a prude, so please help me understand.
Read the quote again. She’s calling out Fox and conservative media for cherry picking what they are outraged about.