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ABC Criticized For Airing GOP Ad Showing Photo Of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez On Fire

ABC Criticized For Airing GOP Ad Showing Photo Of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez On Fire
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Evan Brechtel
By Evan BrechtelSep 13, 2019
Evan Brechtel
Evan Brechtel is a writer and actor living in New York. A Fordham University graduate, he also writes a monthly column for Chosen Magazine and is currently working on a historical fiction novel about New York queer bars over the twentieth century.
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Millions of Americans tuned in to ABC on Thursday night to watch the third Democratic debate for the 2020 presidential nomination.

This means that millions of Americans saw an ad featuring a picture of freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) being set on fire.

That should concern you.

Ocasio-Cortez, one-fourth of the Congresswomen known colloquially as "the squad," is routinely the subject of attacks from the Republican party and its supporters, from Fox News hosts to the President himself.

The ad features Elizabeth Heng, founder of Republican group New Faces GOP, who describes her father's experience with so-called socialism in Cambodia.

Watch below.

Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter to decry the ad.

Because the image of a burning Ocasio-Cortez could conjure violence, ABC was criticized roundly for airing the ad in the first place.




Heng has since defended the ad, saying:

"This ad is about fighting the socialist agenda that has taken over the Democratic Party...I am not afraid to engage in a debate of ideas, and it is the AOC extremists that have to resort in name calling because they don't have real solutions for our country."

#BoycottABC began trending on Twitter in the hours after the ad aired.

The network has yet to respond to the criticism.

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