Former GOP congressman Lee Zeldin on Wednesday used “retarded” on Fox News to explain Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) concepts and was reassured by host Greg Gutfeld that it was “OK.” (Watch the video beneath.)
“You can say that now, it’s OK,” Gutfeld stated as he mugged for the digicam on his political satire present. “It’s now acceptable. I met with the associations and they said yes.”
Just to be clear, it’s not OK. The phrase has been thrown round as a basic insult whereas mocking these with mental disabilities. “The term … is increasingly considered offensive,” Merriam-Webster notes.
Zeldin, the Donald Trump-backed candidate who misplaced the 2022 election for New York governor to Democrat Kathy Hochul, was enjoying off a Gutfeld riff on a few of Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks about Donald Trump.
Zeldin instructed an anecdote about being at a listening to on the Keystone XL pipeline with the progressive Democrat. She needed banks supporting the mission to simply accept legal responsibility for environmental harm, he stated. (The congresswoman has advocated for that.)
Zeldin instructed Gutfeld and crew that he was itching to ask: “Should the company that manufactured the microphone she’s speaking into be liable for the crap that’s coming out of her mouth right now? I was this close to going live.”
Zeldin imagined Ocasio-Cortez would have claimed she was being victimized in that state of affairs and formulated what his response can be.
“No, it’s because the argument that you’re making everyday, all the time is just too often retarded,” Zeldin stated.
