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Conservative's satirical Ocasio-Cortez 'interview' triggers media uproar

Comedian Stephen Colbert routinely wins media cheers for his “hilarious” satirical and obviously fake interviews with President Trump, in which the talk show host splices his own questions with the president’s answers from real interviews.

Those on the left howl with laughter and folks on the other side of the political spectrum might even be forced to chuckle. But when the tables are turned, one side doesn't seem to get the joke.

Conservative commentator Allie Stuckey found out the hard way, when her satirical fake interview with liberal darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was summarily condemned as a “reprehensible” act of deceit against an unwitting public.

 

Stuckey, with Conservative Review’s CRTV, had posted a silly “interview” on Facebook showing her grilling the New York Democratic congressional candidate about socialism and more. It was fake – Stuckey’s questions were spliced together with answers from the candidate’s widely viewed sit-down on PBS’ “Firing Line.”

But reporters called out the producers for not outright labeling the video as satire, posting numerous tweets and stories fretting about how many conservative Facebook users were fooled.

BuzzFeed raised alarm that the “doctored” interview had “gone viral” with over 1 million views in a few hours (it’s since gotten much more), without a disclaimer that the video was fake.

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...rs-media-uproar.html

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But conservative pundits – as well as more liberal-leaning voices – pushed back.

Ben Shapiro snarked at the Democratic candidate: “Someone clearly needs to undertake a forced redistribution of senses of humor so that you end up with one.”

Michelle Malkin offered this alternative headline for The Washington Post story: “After a gobsmackingly obvious conservative satire mocking leftist darling went viral, humorless journos (who love it when Stephen Colbert uses exact same method) strained bitterly to discredit the success.”

New York Magazine and Huffington Post’s Yashar Ali called it the “dumbest non-scandal,” noting Stuckey “does satire stuff.”  

“[I]f we have to start labeling stuff satire now then there are a lot of tweets and videos that need that label,” he tweeted.

When the interviewer asked about socialist Venezuela, Ocasio-Cortez confessed that Middle Eastern politics were not her forte. “Venezuela is not in the Middle East,” Stuckey scolded.

Stuckey, for her part, didn’t back down – retweeting her trolls, including one who said she should be “sued into bankruptcy and arrested.”

“1) I am not sorry. 2) It’s not coming down. 3) I will make another one. 4) You don’t have to hate Trump to use humor. 5) I don’t have to warn you when I’m about to tell a joke,” she tweeted.

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