Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is defending herself against accusations that she used a"Southern drawl" during a speech on Friday before a mostly black audience.
The New York Democrat also hit back at President Donald Trump's knock against her at the National Republican Congressional Dinner, where he dismissed Ocasio-Cortez as a"young bartender" in slamming the Green New Deal."I'm proud to be a bartender, ain't nothing wrong with that," she told the crowd at Al Sharpton's National Action Network Convention in New York."There's nothing wrong with working retail, folding clothes for other people to buy.
Why is she wasting her time responding to ignorance. Silence is always the best answer to a fool. I say, just ignore them.
It could be a sign of mirroring which is often associated with high emotional intelligence and empathy. It really isn't that uncommon.
Mirroring is an established and effective sales technique. Just ask Sistah Hillary.
No other person besides Cortezilla will ever be able to say as much to disfavor her as she says herself, to sooner than later remove her from her Representative status of a District she doesn't even live in.
Since when do ALL black people speak with a 'southern drawl'? The ignorance is polarizing these days.
It is interesting how she sounded like a preacher with long drawn out words when speaking to the crowd ... Definitely not how a New Yorker speaks. Even funnier is how politicians try to relate to the different audiences by being fake.
Wait, but realDonaldTrump can mock a physically challenged person and that’s cool
Get a life ! She doesn't need any drawl. She has a perfectly good speaking voice. How petty can the News media get
She is not genuine. She is an unrealistic idealist on a crusade to turn America into a socialist country. Her “sky is falling” take on everything is her tactic for scaring people into believing that socialism is the solution.
Apparently the critics have never seen a Trump rally lmao
When your a joke, your a joke.
Little Hillary Clinton
The worst part of her excuse is that she claims this is how people from The Bronx talk. I can certainly say NO WE DON’T. I’m done with her bullshit.
Now this is funny. Great work , bravo
Speaks for itself
AOC & Ilhan we supposed to be key figures in expanding the Dem. Party's reach into 2020 voters. Instead they are dividing the party internally and losing party members as they continue their rants. The Dem. Party and Pelosi has lost control of their star freshman
. aoc is a FRAUD
I mean she is stupid so what ? Dont blame her blame the stupid people who elected her to congress.
What an idiot....one term, if she makes it through this one....😂😂😂
You people are ridiculous! Why is this even “news”?
That’s the worst Southern drawl, ever.
Condescending I think the word is
Cold got to be AOC!!!
Steven crowder does it to.. Not everything is racist lol. Cortez may be a bumbling fool but y'all need to chill
She’s so stupid!! It hurts to listen to her talk about anything
What's the difference between that beautiful thing between a woman's legs and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ? One's a pussy and the other is a c*nt.
Boohoo
AOC is just a con!
Doing her best HillaryClinton impression
I thought it was fine for demoncrats to pander like that?
Ahh poor baby.
pan·der /ˈpandər/ verb gerund or present participle: pandering 1) gratify or indulge (an immoral or distasteful desire, need, or habit or a person with such a desire, etc.). 2) someone who caters to or exploits the weaknesses of others
You mean she’s not black?
Fake as cnn
Good luck!
Hahaha...That was bad...
Anyone who watched her pathetic performance KNOWS she ATTEMPTED to use something different than her natural tone, so once again, she's lying!
AOC can now add a new word to her vocabulary: Pandering. hmm...with all the big push by her party about misappropriating cultures, why hasn't she been brought to task for this outrageous stunt? With her & Dems' identity politics, which ethnic group will she insult next?
Racist!
I would say she is not 'defending' herself, which makes her appear to be in a subordinate position. She is on OFFENSE here, exposing yet again the hypocrisy and stupidity of the Republican/Fox cabal.
Leave her alone.
......and she is still putting on an act. She has taken to,politics quickly..she is utterly disgusting.
I'm sure CNN is busy trying to bury any video evidence. Notice it wasn't attached to tweet. We see you cnn. FakeNews
It’s not an accusation. There’s literally audio and video of her with the fake accent.
That's the least of her problems. Campaign finance abuse, paying the boyfriend, and shady deals. She's becoming a real liability
Just like that disgusting speech Hillary gave a few years ago! But the left remained silent on how offensive that was!
I don't like AOC. I'm a conservative. I detest her decision to drive Amazon from NYC. But if you grew up in NYC and spent any time in the BX, you know that minorities (I am one) have to often be chameleon-like. Proper enunciation at work on Wall St and hair down with the guys
We know phonies...
Republicans pounce
Did black people coin the phrase Southern drawl?
Obama must have coached her 🗣
Kind of reminds me of when this happened 😂
She was intoxicated!
She is SO ridiculous.... hypocrite...
she just gets more fun to poke fun at day by day, she never makes sense and does it with different accents, you gotta love stupid people sometimes, they are just so special
Ironic this is an issue since American English language (pidgin English) is not the native natural language of black people whose ancestry is African.
AOC Defend all you want, but for as many times as you’ve opened your pie hole and spoke (most of it has been somewhat incoherent) everyone knows what your, like, normal, like, voice sounds like. Nice try.
Lol y’all acting like she was eating fried chicken and watermelon at the podium. This is like KamalaHarris claiming she smoked weed listening to Biggie and Tu Pac. In 1986.
Perhaps it was just the air passing through her head that made her sound that way!
This Democrat is not full by the Full of S... Democrats
She is another fake!
Proof: facts don’t care about feelings guys: she’s racist- plain and simple!
This is NOT news. FFS, stop promoting this insanity and report on REAL issues. There are plenty.
Who in the hell voted for this idiot😳
Well it was kind of racist. But there have been multiple studies showing that leftists speak a little more unintelligent when talking to blacks so it’s all par for the course
Southern draw? That’s how left will spin.
pretending like they didn't hear it, they don't even want to acknowledge the very obvious stupidity. If she was a Republican and Conservative will be unleashing barrages of opinion piece and breaking news about racism. hypocrite
She’s the best thing ever to happen to the GOP. Just go girl...
Agreed, Southern drawl is the worst.
No no no is was BLACCENT
Racist
She wasn’t doing it right whatever she was trying to do though . Needs more practice before Mirror !
Fake news
'Y'all want collards with that?'
Where is the problem? 'There were good people on both sides'.Remember? realDonaldTrump was specifically targeting white supremacists.If she chooses to appeal to black people,the mechanism does not matter.
AOC has much more to defend herself against as she is just a pretty idiot who was voted in by other senseless idiots.
Obama often used a southern drawl to be folksy and underline a practical point, that was of immediate practical import to the Audience, rather than a rhetorical logical quibble, I think it is a subconscious tribute to Clinton's drawl and Bush's folksy connect
She learned from Hillary Clinton.
Needs to...
She’s a fruit cake!!! Thank the lord just one term Congress person.
Sweet home Alabama
Now if this was a republican the headline would read ' Republican uses southern drawl during speech to pander to mostly black audience'
Let's be real, it's not accusations....she really did use an accent and drawl. This is not how she normally talks! If you buy that and promote that then you are FAKE news!
lol ofc she is
What about the hot sauce ? Always in the purse ? 😂😂😂
If you put me in a room of southerners,I too will drawl. Natural mirroring. Done it all my life. It’s normal.
paraphrase not quote most of that was me talking the guy I referenced is form england.
Wow hard-hitting reporting here CNN. Grade:F.
It reminds me of the scene of Michael an Fredo in boat house...I am smart !...
to quote mark steine what is it with democrats doing this hillary clinton did this once and I'm not sure if she was talking to black people or white people but either way I'm form the south and we do not all talk that way.
Maybe your headline should be that she was falsely accused of using a southern drawl.
Don’t try and deflect for her by calling it a Southern drawl. Be news, not propaganda. She was trying to talk like a black person. Cultural appropriation. Gross.
She’s a pandering fool!
Annndddd, here she is again, the Star of the Internet, they all love her, can't keep their eyes off her, hang on every mindless word, thus causing them to be mindless as well...looking at you CNN, thehill, etc., all the pandering pundits.
Come on, CNN. Two questions: Have any of you all ever been to the the Bronx? Have you heard of the term code switching?
This was perhaps even more cringeworthy than Kamala Harris' claim to have smoked weed while listening to 2Pac & Snoop Dog. The identity politics and pandering has to STOP. In fact, anyone who tries to draw a racial distinction unnecessarily & intentionally is engaging in racism.
Jiminy cricket where do they get this stuff?
Watch & listen for yourself. Then listen to her explanation afterwards. It’s night & day. Really hard to defend this one. She keeps doing stuff like this to herself. No one to blame this time.
this woman got the gop/kkk/nazi party shook
'Southern drawl' is 👏 way 👏 to 👏 soft.
“Southern Drawl” is not the accusation lmao
She basically admitting that she purposely spoke with a 'southern drawl' HillaryClinton
Good to know she’s multi lingual.
Someone take that urban dictionary away from this suburban pipsqueak.
You can’t make her up.
Nice effort AOC but to get it down perfect you must watch how Hillary Clinton did it.
This mindless crap about Dems are so ridiculous and obviously setup by opponents of the party but the media keeps this crap going
Slow news day...
A total whackadoodle!
She is as phony as they come
She is just like that 'Goldwater girl' HRC, who fought against civil rights. Fake attitude, fake accent, fake support. Democrats plantantion of welfare votes is weakening. They are running scared and looking to children and illegal tresspassers as their last resort.
Authenticity: When President Trump speaks to a room full of young African-Americans, he speaks in his normal voice and accent. He's not a fake.
It wasn't a 'southern drawl' it was a blaccent!
Uses a 'southern drawl' defends it by claiming she's from the Bronx...
Oh Please. People accusing her have NO IDEA , NO Clue about coming from, living with, people from different backgrounds in NYC. It’s a diverse city. We all pick up dialects from one another. She. Did. Nothing. Wrong. Next!
The face of the Democrat Party. Hilarious!
1) picks and chooses when to go in and out of accent 2) insinuates that the african americans there all fold clothes for other people 3) insinuates that the african americans all just drive public transportation Maybe with better policy from you, more people can get better jobs
Good job doing the bidding of the fucking Washington Examiner, CNN.
AOC Just listen to the tape...
Not sure it was a 'Southern drawl,' but it was definitely something. Funny how lefties are pretending they can't hear the difference between that & her normal 12 year old's vernacular.
Imagine if a republican did this! Snow flake puss bags would be rioting in the streets!
'It is so hurtful to see how every aspect of my life is weaponized against me, yet somehow asserted as false at the same time.' BUT, she wants governmental policies that would control every aspect of all of our lives. PLUS, she did elongate her vowels - Howdy from Teeexaaas!
It was her Hot Sauce Hillary moment. Can't wait for her to start using this blaccent everyday to try and cover her tracks. Pandering and demeaning. Racist and ignorant.
She's hilarious 😂 keep talking blexit 🙌🏾
Who in the hell voted for this clown? Riddle me that Batman!
I worked for a company where my two territories were Texas and Massachusetts/Rhode Island. I used to travel to each territory multiple days each quarter from my upper Midwest home. My vocabulary changed depending on where I was even though I was still speaking English. N. P.
CORRECTION: CNN meant to write '... Republican accusations...'
Baaaaahaha you Democrat’s are winning us the election already
Wordwhim / it's so adorable how you choose your words, Hillary's misdeed were played down and now AOC is accused of?...it's not an accusation, it's a fact! Go to the tape. By using accusation, you, are portraying her as a victim. It's sickening and pathetic, the public sees it.
More CNN Breaking News!!
CNN is such worthless TV
President conspiring with Russian and another politicians accent is a concern? Really?
Accusations Just play the tape.. She is a child
That’s nothing more a mislabeling of a well known manner of speaking. Both use ain’t but these are different regional accents. And it doesn’t have to be a regional accent for her to talk that way and it not be southern. But she’s not shaping her words with a southern drawl.
I bet she keeps hot sauce in her purse like Hillary 😂
No, she tried to sound “black” and looked like an idiot. It’s a daily thing for her.
That Logo looks like it's from a 70's Game Show! Maybe, 'The Price Is Right', or 'Let's Make A Deal'?! ...NO, I'm guessing 'Sale Of The Century', where things cost less than a tenth of what they do in the real world!
Wow.. what's wrong with her? Rhetorical. ToManyToList.
Awww anything for attention huh?
AOC is really free entertainment. Seriously. Go to YouTube or wherever and just watch. She’s trump. In deep over her head in issues she couldn’t possibly fathom and her fee for entry was becoming a celebrity. Just like trump. The irony is hysterical. Both PhDs in twitter
More and more often, left-wing democrats forget they are democratic.
Imagine what people would say if Trump did this.
Accusations? It's on video and she clearly does it, do you need a link?
I haven't noticed any difference
She needs to move on and not even engage in that nonsense.
News Flash: Black folks speak English too! AOC proved that liberals do dumb themselves down, embarrassingly, when speaking to black folks. Many of these racist liberals assume black folks are stupid & inarticulate. Believe these racist Democrats, when they show you who they are!
She’s speaking in a way that the black community can easily understand, I don’t see anything wrong with this. “Anything to help us get their votes” should be the mindset held by us.
This:
journalist confused about why there losing so many jobs?
She may single handedly destroy what little is left of the Democratic Party! The liberals deserve her
It 👏 was 👏 a 👏 whole 👏 fake👏 act👏
What is CNN's opinion on this claim?
she obviously used some type of fake accent, which is a pretty ridiculous thing to do, she was billed as being a change agent in DC but she's becoming everything it's always been ... fake, phony, insincere
She obviously did.
Her critics are weird guys. Why even bring this up? Always attacking women.
She better not be using the southern drawl. That’s racist AOC
no she isn't because nobody cares. try again...
Seriously ? This is “news”? I think you time would be far better spent informing us of the real issues out there.
We are so happy to see finally one of us The People in Congress standing up for our rights.
This is not news and your time should not be spent reporting it.
Someone’s reaching. And it ain’t AOC, y’all.
Oh, FFS!
This is what media coverage of politics have devolved to?
Because AOC's critics dig deep to find anything to attack her 😏
Democrats have a very big problem on their hands with AOC!
AOC another brilliant performance from the one-term congresswomen..oneanddone
Blackface without the makeup. Blackvoice.
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