The 31-second video appears to be a couple of clips spliced together froma YouTube video posted in 2010with new music and a LiveLeak watermark added. The original upload is a 4:20-long (!!!) montage of several Boston University students (including Ocasio-Cortez, who graduated from the school in 2011) dancing to Phoenix’s “Lisztomania” in an apparent homage to thisThe Breakfast Club mashup video.
This is perhaps the tiredest in a long line of tired attempts to attack Ocasio-Cortez for things like growing up in a house, wearing work clothes to her job, and having a nickname in high school (which is where that “Sandy” thing comes from). While some conservatives are ineptly trying to weaponize this harmless content, this apparent attempt at “exposing” Cortez is so asinine it feels like trolling, and Twitter has taken note.
In conclusion, “Lisztomania” still slaps.Sign up for our newsletterto get the best of VICE delivered to your inbox daily.Follow Peter Slattery onTwitter.
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