# Why is conservative media obsessed with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 21, 2018, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-conservative-media-obsessed-with-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/824906 "2018-11-21T17:44:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 106
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2018, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-conservative-media-obsessed-with-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/824906/106 "2018-11-24T07:18:29Z")
Nitpick: It may be asking too much for Dopers to spell **voilà** with its _accent grave_, but unless you post about stringed-instrument music please configure your spell-checkers to reject **Viola**. 😃 > [@DrDeth](#): > > Which means the GOP only has to arrange for oil companies to send $5 to each Dem congressman and _viola_- no more climate legislation! Oh my. It is AOC’s terse diction on which you hang your case? :smack: Words fail me … in this forum. Report to the Pit if you need to know why your train of thought is not entirely reasonable. I’ve no idea whether **DrDeth** is a right-winger, left-winger or centrist… (Can we get a Grease Monkey script to tag posters?) But I’ve learned to ignore posts at SDMB which mention “economics” unless the poster is … _an economist_! For example > [@Just give them the money (the argument for basic income)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-give-them-the-money-the-argument-for-basic-income/714704/205): > > > [@](#): > > > > If you actually can articulate an economic theory on why the basic income method is fundamentally flawed, I’d be interested to hear it. However, it appears to me like you’re just appealing to authority and claiming I’m wrong “because Economics.” > > How about like “all of them”? I’m not inclined to provide a basic introduction to Econ 101 supply and demand… At the time of this post, I went through a list of Nobel-prize winning economists and stopped when I couldn’t find a single one who did NOT support basic income! _ **I will bet three gallons of cheap red wine that the next time a right-winger writes the equivalent of “I’m not inclined to provide a basic introduction to Econ 101” he’s supporting an argument that suggests he’s never taken Econ 101!** _ 🙂 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-conservative-media-obsessed-with-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/824906)._