US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams ‘disgusting’ media that published fake nude photo
- Congresswoman says attacks were ‘just a matter of time’, adding that women in leadership face more scrutiny
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the rapidly rising star of the Democratic Party, has lashed out at conservative media for its treatment of women in leadership positions after the Daily Caller published a fake photo of the politician nude in a bath-tub.
The right-wing website published the image showing a woman’s bare feet in the bath, under the headline: “Here’s the photo some people described as a nude selfie of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez”.
In fact, the photograph had been circulating on the internet already for a month and has been shown to have been falsely ascribed to the politician by a user on a Reddit forum.
Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter on Thursday night that the use of a discredited image by a prominent conservative outlet showed that “women in leadership face more scrutiny. Period”.
She said the actions of the Daily Caller were “just a matter of time” given that Republicans had been “frothing at the mouth all week” – a phrase that she did not explain.