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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's First House Speech Broke a C-SPAN Record. Here's What She Said
Time Mag ^ | Mahita Gajanan

Posted on 01/18/2019 12:04:45 PM PST by RoosterRedux

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s first speech from the House floor has set a minor record with C-SPAN.

Ocasio-Cortez slammed the Trump Administration over the partial government shutdown in her remarks. A C-SPAN tweet of her nearly four-minute speech garnered 1.16 million views in a little more than 12 hours, setting a record for the most-watched Twitter video from the outlet of any remarks by a House member, according to a tweet from Howard Mortman, C-SPAN’s communications director.

By Friday morning, it had surpassed 2.3 million views, with more than 13,000 retweets and over 46,000 likes.


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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York; US: Vermont
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To: Drew68

As long as our bullet headcount > their head count we’re good


81 posted on 01/18/2019 3:00:42 PM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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To: gunsequalfreedom

People know she can be comedy gold, most just checking for any of her famous gaffes.


82 posted on 01/18/2019 3:08:03 PM PST by Gasshog
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That’s it?

I thought libs were so enamored with “the most qualified”. I guess they’re back to articulate TelePrompTer readers/puppets, but now have a girl.


83 posted on 01/18/2019 3:24:55 PM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: RoosterRedux

Those bot servers must have really gotten hot working as hard as all that.


84 posted on 01/18/2019 3:26:10 PM PST by gdzla (Tyrannis Seditio, Obsequium Deo)
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To: RoosterRedux

By Friday morning, it had surpassed 2.3 million views, with more than 13,000 retweets and over 46,000 likes.

BULLSH## creating an idol once again, Find a nitwit that don’t shut up and knows nothing and lie. Wonder if she to will be getting the Nobel peace prize like zippy the a##clown before he even did anything and in 8 years he held true he did nothing


85 posted on 01/18/2019 3:28:55 PM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: RoosterRedux

I’m hoping O’Keefe and his outfit get an interview w/ the team behind this fraud.


86 posted on 01/18/2019 3:36:39 PM PST by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: griswold3

At her college wasn’t she known, as Amtrak, or did Willie Brown give her that name?


87 posted on 01/18/2019 3:46:27 PM PST by GOYAKLA (Winning not whining!)
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To: Cicero
"2.3 million views, with . . . over 46,000 likes.
That doesn't seem like a very high percentage of likes to me"
Exactly, with only 13,000 re-tweets. I think the majority of viewers looked to see what the south end of a north bound horse was spewing!
88 posted on 01/18/2019 3:49:07 PM PST by goodtomato (I'm really, really blessed!)
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To: RoosterRedux

Those eyeballs...I wonder if she got goosed by a cattle prod at a young age.


89 posted on 01/18/2019 3:52:51 PM PST by jetson
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To: nikos1121
See reply number 4.
90 posted on 01/18/2019 3:56:25 PM PST by upchuck (Bruce Jenner is still a man. Homosexuality is still sin. The culture may change. The Bible does not.)
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To: Phil DiBasquette
Sounds like she has your vote!

It's like what happened in this relatively small State Rep district. She'd have my vote if the alternative is someone of the Romney/Jeb/PaulRyan/Kasick ilk.

91 posted on 01/18/2019 4:01:05 PM PST by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: RoosterRedux

Number of people watching breaking a record is not necessarily a positive. I would bet that a large number watched for comic relief and to see how many time she said stupid things or how many times her facts just were’nt supportable. She has a history of both.


92 posted on 01/18/2019 4:01:45 PM PST by falcon99
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To: RoosterRedux

Actually, it is 4.6K likes....that is 4,600, not 46,000


93 posted on 01/18/2019 4:13:28 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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To: Teacher317

“substance” — LOL. Nice!


94 posted on 01/18/2019 4:39:37 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: falcon99

To her credit (very hard for me to say), she actually had a good delivery. There were no Obamao “ums,” “ers,” “uuuhhhhs,” “all wee-wee’d up,” or “speaking Austrian.” No “like he went” or “you guys” or “Trump is a mutha-f....” Just a well delivered speech.

Somebody has been coaching her well on public speaking. I know I would be scared sh!tless speaking on the floor of the house for the first time.

The fact that she can deliver a decent, short, somewhat tempered speech on the floor of the house is (I think) bad news. She is going to pick up new adherents.


95 posted on 01/18/2019 4:44:38 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: central_va
Try not to use AOC because that's the name she wants people to call her. Scott Adams named her the racist POS, or RPOS for calling Trump a racist.
96 posted on 01/18/2019 4:52:25 PM PST by poconopundit
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To: RoosterRedux

Nobody gets where she is at by accident. I would like to know who is propping this twit up.


97 posted on 01/18/2019 9:25:04 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.
Justice Democrats and Democratic Socialists of America
98 posted on 01/18/2019 9:46:41 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: gunsequalfreedom

No telling how many on our side watched just to stay totally informed - and maybe come up with some funny videos to post - mocking her...


99 posted on 01/19/2019 3:58:49 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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