The left purports to be all about body positivity, but progressive darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dropped the mask over the weekend when she mocked White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller’s height.
The congresswoman from New York went on a strange rant about Miller’s stature during an Instagram Live video on Sunday. She then tried to walk about her heightist remarks on Monday, but that attempted cleanup ended up functioning more as an unintentional double down.
On Wednesday’s show, Megyn was joined by Link Lauren, host of MK Media’s Spot On, to discuss the “body shaming” incident and what it illustrates about the hypocrisy of the left.
The Dis
During an IG Live on Sunday, AOC was condemning Trump administration officials and told her followers the best “resistance” was laughter. That apparently includes laughing at people’s physical appearance.
“The point is that they are scraping and grasping at straws because they have nothing else. Laugh at them,’ Ocasio-Cortez said. “Stephen Miller is a clown! I’ve never seen that guy in real life, but he looks like he’s, like, [4 feet, 10 inches tall]. He looks like he is angry about the fact that he’s [4 feet, 10 inches] and he has taken that anger out on any other population possible. Like, laugh at them.”
She also went after what she called Miller’s “insecure masculinity,” saying the “one of the best ways you can dismantle a movement of insecure men is by making fun of them” and “by having secure men who aren’t afraid of successful people around them who are also participating in that as well.”
The dis failed to land for several reasons, not least of which is that AOC didn’t have her facts straight. “Stephen Miller is a normal height man,” Megyn fact-checked. “In America, the average height of a man is about 5 feet, 9 inches, which is shorter than you might think… Stephen Miller says he is [5 feet, 10 inches], so not the tallest guy but not short.”
The Backpedal
But more notably, the height-related criticism seemingly goes against everything leftists claim to believe in. “She wants you to believe that she is super woke and she is really into uplifting people. ‘We don’t put people down for their immutable characteristics,’ but she is in the news this week for mocking Stephen Miller and basically calling him a dwarf,” Megyn explained. “That is not allowed by leftists. I am reliably told you are not allowed to do that by the woke left.”
Perhaps that is why Ocasio-Cortez was back on Insta trying to clarify her comments on Monday. “I want to express my love for the short king community. I don’t believe in body shaming. I am talking about how big or small someone is on the inside,” she claimed.
Except, then she launched into another height-related rant. “Like, for example, I have no idea how tall Andrew Tate is. No idea at all. But that guy looks to me like [5 feet, 3 inches]… whereas, physically, men of smaller stature can come across– they are spiritually 6 foot. If you’re a good dad, if you stand up for women, if you’re not belittling immigrants, you’re, like, you know, [6 foot, 3 inches] spiritually. I don’t know. Am I being problematic?”
Megyn said the answer to that question is a resounding yes. “Yes, you are being problematic, and dishonest, and a hypocrite,” she responded.
The Hypocrisy
To the point about being hypocritical, Lauren said it is not just that leftists “preach about diversity, and love everybody, and Kumbaya, and braid each other’s hair” and then act the opposite. It is that they do not practice what on the “resistance” front either.
“She says, ‘We have to laugh at these Republicans… and scoff at them.’ I would rather you laugh at us then pick up guns and try to shoot us, as we have seen recently with Charlie Kirk, with the assassination attempts on President Trump, and [Brett Kavanaugh], and so many other Republicans,” he explained. “I would rather you laugh at us than tell your supporters that we’re ‘fascist,’ and ‘dictators,’ and ‘Hitler,’ and ‘Nazis,’ so they don’t come and try to kill us in our own homes. That I would actually prefer, AOC, if we are going to get serious.”
Megyn agreed. “She is a complete hypocrite because she is running around out there dropping the ‘fascist’ word like it’s going out of style… She doesn’t actually mean ‘laugh at them’ because that’s not what she has been doing,” she said. “And she doesn’t actually mean her woke messaging about not shaming people and celebrating whatever immutable characteristics because she doesn’t do that if it’s a Republican.”
You can check out Megyn’s full interview with Lauren by tuning in to episode 1,167 on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen. And don’t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM’s Triumph (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.