{"id":76751,"date":"2021-02-05T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76751"},"modified":"2021-12-20T11:56:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T17:56:31","slug":"aoc-its-all-about-meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76751","title":{"rendered":"AOC: “It’s All About Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After spending the past week wrapping herself in traumatic victimhood (and sliming a Capitol cop in the bargain) for her experience in the January 6 riot, it turns out that she wasn’t nearly as close to the danger as her teary Instagram video might have made it seem<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allahpundit looked into this on Tuesday<\/a>, but the story behind Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s massively popular Instagram video where she describes her experience during the January 6th Capitol Hill riot keeps growing more convoluted. Despite claiming that she thought she \u201cwas going to die\u201d and at least insinuating that rioters were attempting to break into her office, AOC wasn\u2019t even in the actual Capitol Building when all of the action went down. Over at RedState, Nick Arama breaks down the distinctions<\/a> between reality and perception. AOC\u2019s office is in the Cannon Building which was never breached during the riot. She was briefly evacuated along with everyone else there, but other members were in immediate danger inside the Capitol Building and were far more at risk.<\/p>

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The writer – Jazz Shaw at Hot Air<\/em> – points out he believes the #AlexandriaOcasioSmollett hashtag that erupted earlier this week on Twitter may have been a little off target – the Representative certainly didn’t concoct the riot from whole cloth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019m sure that AOC was legitimately afraid during the riot and with good reason. Assuming there\u2019s a television in her office and she had the news on she would have known that hundreds of angry people were busting up the Capitol Building and acting in a threatening fashion. Given her unusually high profile for a very junior member, it would be reasonable for her to believe that some of the rioters could present a physical danger to her.<\/p>

With all of that said, however, AOC failed to make one thing clear in her video (which quickly amassed more than six million views). At no time did any rioters enter the hallway where her office is located and it\u2019s not clear that any of them ever entered any part of the Cannon Building at all. The one person who did reach her office was a Capitol Hill Police officer who was coming to evacuate her and her staffer. They had located a suspicious package (which was later cleared as being random and mundane) so they were getting everyone out of the building in an abundance of caution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Leaving aside the sliming of the Capitol cop – who had a whole building to evacuate as his colleagues were being overrun a few blocks away – and even if you don’t <\/em>make the Smollett comparison, I do find one thing intensely troubling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The whole episode – the assault on the electoral process as well as a riot that led to five deaths, directly or indirectly – to her is nothing but a stage for…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. Her feelings, her sense of assumed victimnood…her<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To AOC, AOC is always the real story – by way of using that story to slime her boogeymen-du-jour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

UPDATE: I’m going to expand on this just a tad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

AOC was about as far from the Capitol riot as I was from the pharmacy that burned down, about 1000 feet from my house, during the riots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Were either of us under immediate threat? No. Were both of us right to be nervous? Yep. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Should either of us be appropriating the experiences of those who were<\/em> in immediate danger? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s just call it emotionally manipulative overkill and hope everyone can do better in the future. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After spending the past week wrapping herself in traumatic victimhood (and sliming a Capitol cop in the bargain) for her experience in the January 6 riot, it turns out that she wasn’t nearly as close to the danger as her teary Instagram video might have made it seem: Allahpundit looked into this on Tuesday, but the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,44,377],"tags":[443],"class_list":["post-76751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-stupid","category-the-second-civil-war","tag-january-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76770,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76751\/revisions\/76770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}