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The Media, Without Evidence, Claims Conservatives Furious Over Ocasio-Cortez Dancing Video

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Obviously the media is under the impression that there aren’t enough things to mock Republicans for at the beginning of 2019, or it wouldn’t have…
Obviously the media is under the impression that there aren’t enough things to mock Republicans for at the beginning of 2019, or it wouldn’t have completely contrived a controversy Friday about how there was wide right-wing outrage over an insipid video of Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dancing during her days as an undergraduate at Boston University.
Yes, it is true that some anonymous troll accounts snickered at the congresswoman’s twirling on top of what appeared to be a building somewhere in Boston. Other disreputable outlets, like The Gateway Pundit, have made a number of desperate attempts to make her seem inauthentic by commenting on the fact that she was born and raised in a relatively-affluent suburb of New York.
Most of these attempts, it should be noted, have been whole heartedly dismissed by mainstream conservative commentators as ineffective and asinine.
Yet that didn’t stop virtually major news outlets from spreading the narrative that conservatives are somehow captivated with the silly video of a young Ocasio-Cortez dancing. Vox’s Matthew Yglessias wrote an “explainer” about the right’s “ obsession ” with her days as a teenager, citing a total of four tweets — one of which was from a Twitter account that no longer even exists.

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