She’s a total fraud’: Squad member AOC faces criticism after another video resurfaces of her using an ‘accent’ while addressing Al Sharpton’s National Action Network and admitting to her audience
- Another video has gone viral in which AOC seems to put an emphasis
- She made the comments during a 2019 speech at a conference in New York
‘Squad’ member AOC was criticized after yet another video surfaced of her using an ‘accent’ while addressing Al Sharpton’s National Action Network and admitting to her audience.
Ocasio-Cortez was addressing a crowd at a conference held in 2019 by the Reverend Al Sharpton when she famously said, with an amusing bow, “I’m proud to be a bartender. There is nothing wrong with that.’
A new video of the moment is circulating, cut with a more recent clip of her talking about Donald Trump, not using that pronounced accent.
“AOC is total fraud. This is her accent before and after,” read the caption to the video, uploaded to Twitter account End Wokeness.
Ocasio-Cortez gave a speech at an Al Sharpton-sponsored conference in New York in 2019 and was later accused of using an accent
The old clip was cut with a more recent video in which AOC put a different emphasis
The 2019 Ocasio-Cortez speech was delivered at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network convention that year. She continued:
“There’s nothing wrong with working in retail, folding clothes for other people to buy. There’s nothing wrong with preparing the food your neighbors will eat. There’s nothing wrong with driving the buses that take your family to work.”
Days later, she had already faced criticism and addressed the accusations that she put an accent, claiming it was completely authentic.
“People who talk about my voice can walk right off it,” she wrote on Twitter. ‘Any child who grew up in a separate language culture and had to learn how to navigate the classroom environment at school/work knows what’s going on. My Spanish is the same.’
As much as the right wants to distort and distract, I’m from the Bronx. I act and talk like this *especially* when I’m excited and especially when I’m home. It’s so hurtful to see every aspect of my life being weaponized against me, but at the same time being somehow alleged as false,” she continued.
Ocasio-Cortez grew up in the Bronx until she was five, when her family bought a home in Yorktown Heights, Westchester County. She returned to the Bronx after graduating from Boston University in 2011.
“We played a lot of clips of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, none of them talk like that. That’s fake, that’s what that is,” Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson said at the time.
Other critics on the right took to Twitter to mock Ocasio-Cortez for her new accent.
“I got five seconds into the video of AOC putting an accent before I cringed,” Washington Free Beacon reporter Alex Griswold wrote.
“Ocasio-Cortez speaks with an accent she never uses as she tells a room of mostly black people that there’s nothing wrong with them folding clothes, cooking and driving other people around on a bus for a living,” the Daily Wire reporter wrote. Ryan Saavedra.
“She literally drew a Hillary Clinton,” he continued, referring to Clinton’s habit of putting accents in front of certain audiences during her Senate campaign.
In a recent story highlighting video from Al Sharpton’s event, Fox News shared another clip showing Ocasio-Cortez putting on an accent while being harassed at a Queens town hall last October.
In it, she playfully says with an accent to the boisterous crowd, “Okay, okay, listen, listen, okay, listen,” while gesticulating with her hands, she pleads to calm the crowd.