Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez received an unexpected defense from Republican Representative Matt Gaetz this week when Gaetz went on a tirade against Fox News for always trying to "sexualize" AOC when they talk about her. The show "The Five" had jokingly suggested that Gaetz and AOC were somehow romantically involved, and Gaetz actually stepped up to condemn their sexism. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Folks, something very weird happened this week. Uh, lemme rephrase that. Something very weird that did not involve George Santos, Donald Trump or Clarence Thomas happened this week. And it's actually related to a story that we talked about last week. Now, last week told you the story about how representatives Matt Gates and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a couple other Democrats and Republicans, not to demean, you know, their involvement in this, but they've all put forth legislation together, bipartisan bill to ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks and their families would be banned from trading individual stocks as a result of this working together, a o c and Matt Gates, Fox News this week decided to, during an episode of The Five, somehow imply that Matt Gates may leave his wife for a o c. Now, this was not on Greg Gut's comedy show, if you can call it that.

This was on the real, like the five where they're not supposed to be telling jokes. Um, they're, they're supposed to actually be doing news, but instead they wanted to talk about maybe Matt Gates is gonna leave his wife for a o c. Well, this off Matt Gates, rightfully so. I will add, this is like the only time I'm ever gonna take his side. But also what Matt Gates said on his podcast this week about the way that these Fox News hosts talk about a o c, he came to her defense and it was, it was a, a good defense. Like, again, kudos to Matt Gates for doing this, but let me read you what Matt Gates said, cuz I, I'm still kind of in shock that this came from him. He said, quote, I've got a bone to pick with the five. It does seem a little childish to me that the media always has to over sexualize everything that AOC is involved with. They wouldn't do that to men. And then Judge Janine, judge Janine, who starts out saying, I am happily married, judge Janine, who was sitting at my table at Mar-a-Lago the night I proposed to my wife by the end of the Greg Gutfield rent, she's bailed and she's wanting to be the officiant for me and aoc. So shame on you, judge Janine.

He also at one point called their behavior childish. Um, he's, he's not wrong. And again, uh, go check and make sure hell didn't freeze over. As I'm sitting here telling you that Matt Gates is right, and, and I am glad that he did come to her defense and pointed out, I guess that it's not even just Fox News, it is all the media coverage of a o c and always has been this oversexualized coverage. Everything about her, her, her policy positions, her stances on the issues, the speeches that she gives, what she does in those house hearings, all

Of it gets overshadowed by, oh, well, I mean, look what she's wearing. Oh, she's working with Matt Gates. They must have a thing going on. Like you, media cannot stop yourself from thinking of her as nothing more than just a pretty face who's probably just flirty and doing whatever and oh, everybody wants to date, or it's sickening. It truly is. Matt Gae is absolutely a hundred percent correct about that. She is an intelligent, well-educated human being that is out there fighting to do good in this country, and there's not enough people like her.