Piers Morgan Blisters AOC: ‘Annoying Overhyped Charlatan’

Morgan began by noting that outside Ocasio-Cortez’s office, a prolific number of post-it notes praising her have been stuck to a plaque. Morgan noted ironically, “We know about these post-it notes because in recent days Ms Ocasio-Cortez has repeatedly tweeted about them to her 2.6 million Twitter followers. ‘I’ll keep these up as long as they stick,’ she declared, ecstatically.”

Morgan continued, “ … there’s no doubt that ‘AOC’, as she likes to call herself, bows to nobody in self-adoration, even it means creating a shrine to her own magnificence on her office door. To understand the full magnitude of her ego, AOC even compared her New York election victory to America’s 1969 Moon landing and the 1964 Civil Rights Act.”

Morgan acknowledged, “There’s no doubt she is a rapid-rising superstar in U.S. politics … Her achievement in becoming at 29 years old the youngest-ever woman to serve in the United States Congress is genuinely remarkable.”

But then Morgan noted that Ocasio-Cortez retweeted a tweet from Ariana Grande lambasting him; he wrote, “AOC loved this — retweeting Grande’s attack on me with the words: ‘Get ‘em’ and a muscle-armed emoji. Both of them got a gazillion ‘likes’ for their tweets and I was duly savagely abused by their fans.”

Morgan went on the offensive: “She inspires such demented support because she is the ultimate ‘woke’ liberal celebrity, someone whose whole life now seems devoted to virtue-signalling her way to the top. There’s no issue, from transgender rights to climate change, on which she isn’t apparently now a world authority.”

Then he really went on the offensive:

… like most fervent PC-crazed socialists I’ve met, she is not above copious lashings of shameless hypocrisy. This is a woman who we know despises the rich and wants to take rich people’s money away to help the poor. Her flagship new headline-grabbing policy idea is to slap a 70% tax rate for the wealthiest Americans, thus punishing many of them for being successful and creating jobs. Yet our budding female Robin Hood recently wore a $1,990 Gabriela Hearst blazer, $890 matching wool pants, and $625 Manolo Blahnik pumps for an Interview magazine photo-shoot, in which, with no apparent sense of irony, she draped herself around construction workers and talked about the urgent need for more to be done to reduce financial inequality.

Morgan noted that Ocasio-Cortez had moaned about the restaurant where she once worked having to close despite the fact that the owner specifically blamed minimum wage hikes for the restaurant’s closing, the same hikes Ocasio-Cortes champions.

He noted Ocasio-Cortez’s attack on Uber in which she claimed New York’s yellow cabs “are in financial ruin due to the unregulated expansion of Uber,” then noted that her own campaign spent $4000 on 160 Uber rides in California, where she wasn’t even running for office.

If that weren’t sufficient, Morgan noted, “ … it’s not her hypocrisy that’s most troublesome. It’s her inability to tell the truth.” He pointed out that she had attacked President Trump by asserting, “There was falsehood after falsehood, and we have to make sure we get out facts straight,” but she had already been chastised by the Washington Post for her “tendency to exaggerate or misstate basic facts.”

He continued, “Previously, the Post has exposed Ms ‘we have to make sure we get our facts straight’ AOC for lying on the record about unemployment numbers, ICE bed quotas, America’s upper-middle class not existing, Medicare costs, and Affordable Care Act payment systems. So when she bangs on self-righteously about the importance of facts, it’s worth noting that barely anything that comes out of her mouth seems to actually be factual.”

Morgan concluded:

Piers Morgan Labels Trump will be licking his lips with unconfined joy that the Democrats’ noisiest media-dominating new star is a fork-tongued, hypocritical, cocky, extremely “woke” hard-core socialist. Frankly, he couldn’t script a better figurehead for his rivals as he battles re-election. AOC’s post-it note fans think her acronym stands for: “Amazing Outstanding Champion.” I would put it another way: “Annoying Overhyped Charlatan.”