Barstool Sports&#8217; Dave Portnoy was left totally confused after Twitter tagged one of his tweets scorching Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for wearing a dress emblazoned with the words &#8220;Tax the Rich&#8221; across the backside to attend one of the ritziest and most exclusive celebrity events of the year.
Portnoy tweeted, “‘Tax the Rich’&#8230;&#8230;But first I&#8217;m gonna go have the time of my life partying with them all at the most extravagant over the top party of the year that is essentially a celebration of richness.&#8221;
Portnoy later tweeted a screenshot of his previous message, this time with an overlay claiming that the tweet was misinformation because it was &#8220;Missing Context.&#8221;
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What? <a href="https://t.co/acnOm8E36w">pic.twitter.com/acnOm8E36w</a>
&mdash; Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) <a href="https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1438328835863420929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2021</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Independent fact-checkers say this information could mislead people,&#8221; Twitter claimed.
The post was also reportedly removed from search, according to users who responded to Portnoy&#8217;s tweet.
The Met Gala is, of course, an extremely exclusive party. Although Ocasio-Cortez is reported to have been &#8220;compted&#8221; a ticket to the event by the Metropolitan Museum of Art itself, tickets typically range from $35,000 to $250,000, and attendees, per economics commentator Megan McArdle, often use their ticket purchase as a sort-of &#8220;tax shelter.&#8221;
Regardless, even those who purchase or receive free tickets must have their attendance approved by &#8220;Vogue&#8221; legend Anna Wintour, who hand-picks the crowd at the Met&#8217;s annual fete.
Ocasio-Cortez also may have gone as a guest of the Met, but she attended alongside the designer of her dress, Aurora James, whose boyfriend is the heir to the Seagram&#8217;s family fortune &#8212; an estimated $2.5 billion.
Twitter users, of course, immediately set about mocking the social media platform&#8217;s decision to fact-check Portnoy.
&#8220;Independent Fact Checkers at Snope (sic) state that the party is &#8216;actually not the most extravagant over the top party of the year&#8217; per data compiled by party experts,&#8221; one user joked.
&#8220;The missing context is that they detected you didn’t agree with her,&#8221; noted another.
&#8220;This is disturbing,&#8221; added another. &#8220;That Twitter so overtly trips over itself to ensure supposedly balanced takes of certain political darlings but allows outrageous misinformation from others so long as they are aligned with a specific narrative.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez faced a wave of criticism for her decision to attend the Met Gala &#8212; a decision she defended by claiming that she was there representing the &#8220;working class.&#8221; She later branded criticism of her Met Gala dress &#8220;sexist&#8221; and suggested it was propagated by &#8220;haters.&#8221;
“And before haters get wild flying off the handle, New York elected officials are routinely invited to and attend the Met due to our responsibilities in overseeing and supporting the city’s cultural institutions for the public,” the representative wrote on Twitter. “I was one of several in attendance in this evening.”
Her gown was custom made (though AOC noted later that it was &#8220;borrowed&#8221; from designer James. Her accessories, also likely borrowed, as The Daily Wire noted Wednesday, totaled over a thousand dollars.
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Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Tuesday informed her Instagram followers that she&#8217;s not one of the wealthy people she wants taxed, following criticism that she herself is “rich.”
&#8220;What do you say to people who argue that you&#8217;re also rich?&#8221; an Instagram user asked AOC. The Democrat earns more than $170,000 annually and <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9598483/AOCs-electric-shock-Socialist-owns-59K-Tesla.html">owns</a> a $35,000 Tesla.
“This is the trick people use all the time, right?&#8221; the representative responded. &#8220;They want you to think that when we talk about rich, we’re talking about a doctor or a lawyer instead of someone with hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions of dollars. That&#8217;s what we mean by ‘rich.’”
Of course, Democratic proposals and legislation increase and levy taxes on individuals and business owners who earn far less than &#8220;hundreds of millions of dollars&#8221; or &#8220;billions of dollars.&#8221;
The question to AOC was raised in the wake of the congresswoman wearing an emblazoned “Tax the Rich” dress to the Met Gala, where tables could reportedly cost more than $275,000 and individual tickets are priced at around $30,000.
AOC on Monday scolded “haters” over the criticism and contended that going to the fancy event with rich elites was actually her just doing her job as a congresswoman in New York City.
“And before haters get wild flying off the handle, New York elected officials are routinely invited to and attend the Met due to our responsibilities in overseeing and supporting the city’s cultural institutions for the public,” she wrote via Twitter. “I was one of several in attendance in this evening.”
In the same Twitter thread, Ocasio-Cortez rationalized that the “medium is the message” and emphasized that her designer is a “Black woman immigrant designer.”
Moreover, AOC complained Tuesday that her &#8220;body&#8221; is constantly &#8220;policed&#8221; by politicos, and said that &#8220;haters&#8221; &#8220;hated&#8221; the Met Gala appearance, while the &#8220;thoughtful&#8221; were &#8220;thoughtful&#8221; in reaction.
&#8220;I thought about the criticism I&#8217;d get, but honestly I and my body have been so heavily and relentlessly policed from all corners politically since the moment I won my election that it&#8217;s kind of become expected and normalized to me,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;The irony is that when women in power take the prospect of criticism to be cautious in their actions, they are then criticized for being &#8216;inauthentic&#8217; and &#8216;too calculated.&#8217; Ultimately the haters hated and the people who are thoughtful were thoughtful. But we all had a conversation about taxing the rich in front of the very people who lobby against it, and punctured the 4th wall of excess and spectacle.&#8221;
The Democratic Rep. also suggested it is her sex and race which sparks criticism.
&#8220;Honestly, our culture is deeply disdainful and unsupportive of women, especially women of color and working class women (and LGBTQ/immigrant/ etc.) from the bottom up, whether it&#8217;s lack of childcare support or especially reserving pillory for elected women and femme people.&#8221;
WATCH:
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> responds to criticism that “she’s rich.”
“They want you to think that when we talk about rich, we’re talking about doctor or a lawyer instead of someone with hundreds of millions of dollars if not billions of dollars.” <a href="https://t.co/QvQA7TtJ6f">pic.twitter.com/QvQA7TtJ6f</a>
&mdash; John Gage (@johnrobertgage) <a href="https://twitter.com/johnrobertgage/status/1437932463049822212?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 15, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-defends-its-my-responsibility-to-party-with-elites-haters">AOC Defends: It’s My ‘Responsibility’ To Party With Elites, ‘Haters’</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pathetic-self-aggrandizing-hypocrite-megyn-rips-ocasio-cortes-for-tax-the-rich-dress-at-met-gala">‘Pathetic Self-Aggrandizing Hypocrite’: Megyn Rips Ocasio-Cortez For ‘Tax The Rich’ Dress At Met Gala</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-mocked-criticized-after-wearing-tax-the-rich-dress-to-elitist-met-gala-branded-a-fraud">AOC Mocked, Criticized After Wearing ‘Tax The Rich’ Dress To Elitist Met Gala, Branded A ‘Fraud’</a>
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