ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ DANCING VIDEO WAS MEANT AS A SMEAR, BUT IT BACKFIRED:
When the dance video emerged, many internet users wondered what exactly was incriminating about a windswept Ms. Ocasio-Cortez twirling enthusiastically. The footage was from a four-minute-20-second dance video made by Boston University students in 2010, when Ms. Ocasio-Cortez was an undergraduate.
A dubbed and edited version of the original footage surfaced when a Twitter account called AnonymousQ1776 published it online. “Here is America’s favorite commie know-it-all acting like the clueless nitwit she is,” read the tweet from AnonymousQ1776, which incorrectly described it as a video from her high school days. The account has since been deleted.
The lyrics speak of watching mania “grow like a riot.” Eric Calvin Baker, who can be seen dancing in the video with Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, wrote on Twitter that the scrutiny on the new lawmaker echoed the “mania” after which the song is named.
Many social media users [on both sides of the aisle — Ed] came to Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s defense, and the video has inspired memes.
Including this Twitter account: “AOC Dances To Every Song.”
Whatever her reactionary politics today, AOC looks cute as the dickens in this video from her college days. As Ann Althouse writes, “The attacks are so stupid I wonder if they’re false flag, but I’ve seen enough to believe the AOC haters are this stupid.”
Related: Backstory on the video’s history. And as Jonah Goldberg noted early last month, “Ocasio-Cortez Takes a Page from Trump’s Playbook — Being hated by the right people is the best way to get a big and intensely loyal following.“