Can someone American please explain to me

[Gob]

How you "smear" a person using this video?



Oh, and will the last sane person to leave the USA please switch out the lights?

[Crackpot]

It only works if you have an IQ below 50.

[Crackpot]

Of course the music is bad enough to cause anyone shame.

[eddieq]

Is there context here? Who was it targeted for shaming/smearing?

FWIW, I believe my IQ dropped 50 points while watching it.

[Crackpot]

The story will make you lose fifty more points and then you’ll be in the range of the the whole thing being effective and I can’t be responsible for that.

[Lord Jim]

Here you go Eddie:

Old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dance video goes viral as supporters mock shaming attempt

[Well, I am definitely not a supporter of the Congresswoman or her political views, but I am nevertheless happy to join the mockery of this beyond ridiculous "shaming" attempt.]

An unearthed video purportedly showing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, dancing in a college-era video was shared by conservative Twitter accounts Wednesday as an attempt to discredit the newly sworn-in progressive congresswoman. Instead, the clip went viral as messages of support were widely posted.

Calling Ocasio-Cortez a "clueless nitwit," an anonymous right-wing twitter account shared a video of young people dancing, saying it showed "High School video of 'Sandy' Ocasio-Cortez." The video has since been viewed more than 5 million times.

The clip appears to be an edited version of a 2010 YouTube video of Boston University students dancing to the song "Lisztomania" by Phoenix. The viral clip has been shortened to feature Ocasio-Cortez, and the music has been replaced with a mocking soundtrack.

Here is America’s favorite commie know-it-all acting like the clueless nitwit she is...
...High School video of “Sandy” Ocasio-Cortezpic.twitter.com/s723Vga9zF
— AnonymousQ (@AnonymousQ1776) January 2, 2019

Some social media reactions:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol ... 477646002/

Seems to me that if that fella is on the lookout for clueless nitwits, his first stop should be the mirror...



As embarrassing music videos go, I think this one of America's favorite fascist know-it-all has that bit of college fun beat all to hell:




In fact it's a rare day when America's favorite fascist know-it-all doesn't act like the clueless nitwit he is at least once...

[Long Run]

Pretty broad minded of her constituents to overlook the Boston In Your Face aspect.

[Burning Petard]

Who you gonna believe? A re-broadcast of a 'Blue Blood' episode had the police commissioner in a tv broadcast saying exactly the reverse of what he believed about NY cops enforcing drug laws and legalizing recreational marijuana. The technology to edit and dup in dialogue has made it stupid to accept anything on broadcast tv or social media as a recording of anything similar to reality without careful verification. On the other hand, that is not a new situation. Dan Rather had his career cut short by a faked typed document that his organization did not check out carefully. He left his news career in disgrace. Further careful checking indicated the document was faked, but the information there in was real. The 'fake' became the important thing while the actual deed under investigation was lost in the static. For another view of the various political agendas current in the USofA I refer you to the latest from Fred Reed.

https://fredoneverything.org/china-over ... ke-hitler/

To answer the plea that begins this thread, E pluribus unum has always been a vague hope, not a descriptor of reality.

snailgate.

[Lord Jim]

Further careful checking indicated the document was faked, but the information there in was real.

Do you have a link for that SG?

I remember Rather claiming that despite his source being proven to be bogus that he still believed the charge was accurate, (That GWB had falsified his attendance at some Air National Guard operations that he was required to attend) but I don't recall any actual proof backing that up ever coming to light...

(Sort of like the way some people to this day continue to claim that 43 "deliberately lied" to get us into the war in Iraq, when no credible proof of this charge has ever been presented.)

Pretty broad minded of her constituents to overlook the Boston In Your Face aspect.

Good point...

You'd think the really embarrassing aspect of this for a Congresswoman from NYC would be getting outed as a BU graduate...

At least she wasn't wearing a Boston Red Sox hat...

[ex-khobar Andy]

How you "smear" a person using this video?

Your question is very important to us. At the moment we are closed because we are dealing with a medical emergency and we don't know if it will end when we finally get him off to sleep or if we can distract him with some bright object. In the meantime please leave a message or call back when we reopen and we will be sure to give you our undivided attention.

[eddieq]

Thanks for the context. I do feel dumber for reading that. However, I also feel smarter knowing that even with a sub-50 IQ, I am order of magnitude more intelligent than the morons who are behind this.

[Sue U]

Also too and as well, remember that this happened:

[liberty]

I have not seen and most likely will not see the video. But if the subject of the video is a liberal democrat, as if there was any other kind, the chances that she is some kind of closet commie is good. If a communist of any kind is going to elected in the USA it will happen in that region. The modern Democrat party is a place where moderates are not welcomed. My wife and I will soon be leaving the Democrat party and joining the Republicans. My wife is the one pushing it; I am the one that is reluctant. The Republicans have never seemed to me to be the party the redneck working class, but I am defiantly not a commie or a fascist so I don’t belong with the, so called, Democrats. There is no other practical choice. And if enough of us join the Republicans we change it to a more of a working class party.

[BoSoxGal]

In America there are lots of old and/or freakishly uptight people who think laughing and dancing to music and enjoying life is all Satan’s handiwork. See Footloose.

Unless you’re attending a special cotillion in which as a child you marry your daddy for Jesus. That kind of dancing and enjoyment of life is ordained by God!

[Econoline]

[Gob]

Without a hat too....