Posted on 09/13/2019 5:15:37 AM PDT by RightGeek
An advertisement showing the image of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bursting into flames aired during ABC's Democratic debate in Houston on Thursday, prompting a heated response from viewers.
The 30-second ad, from a Republican-affiliated PAC named New Faces GOP, features its founder Elizabeth Heng, a former GOP congressional candidate in California, warning about liberal politicians who embrace socialism.
"This is the face of socialism and ignorance," Heng says as a photo of Ocasio-Cortez catches fire and burns away to show harrowing images from the Cambodian Civil War in the 1970s from which her father fled.
"Does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez know the horrors of socialism?” Heng continues. “My father was minutes from death in Cambodia before a forced marriage saved his life. That’s socialism: Forced obedience. Starvation. Mine is a face of freedom. My skin is not white. I’m not outrageous, racist, nor socialist. I’m a Republican."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG0T_hVMqLs
It appears the ad ran on at least one Sinclair station in the Washington, D.C., area.
Social media buzzed with criticism after the ad aired, with many angry that ABC allowed it to air.
Lots of snowflakes whining including Donkey Chompers herself
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Well I’m outraged at the outrage, so there!
Would like to watch the video but google/YouTube has blocked it pending verification of age. Asked me to sign in to my google account. Never had one, never will. If anyone can post a link that is open that would be awesome
Good for Elizabeth.
I thought the ad was great.
Ok, so I went to the article and there it was. I’m blaming insufficient caffeine this morning. :)
They are outraged because it is the truth! A woman of “color” who doesn’t think the way she should is outrageous to the left.
Try this?...
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/09/elizabeth-heng-aoc-cambodia-khmer-rouge-new-voices.html
What kind of idiot makes ads like this?
Plenty of material there to criticize, but what a bonehead move that gets her sympathy
balderdash
You would cower in the arena and let the lions eat you up
I don’t think an ad like this is very smart....
Just imagine how outraged they’ll be when they are lined up in between an open pit and a firing squad.
Truth to the left is like Holy water to a Vampire.
You don’t matter. Cowardice will get us killed
Yes you’re probably correct, but it’s only because of the way the media will spin it. Anyway, I was just attempting to make a joke.
These outraged people probably thought that Kathy Griffin holding up Trump’s severed ‘head’ was comedy.
I wish I would have copy written the phrase “sparks outrage” five years ago.
If you don’t want to get called a Nazi, don’t go around goose-stepping.
I just don’t get it. The focus of the ad is going to become the fire rather than the menace of socialism. What exactly was the point of her face burning?
To quote Billy Joel: We didn’t start the fire.
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