Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has proven time and again that she is not afraid to allow some of the vilest rhetoric pour out of her mouth whenever there’s a crowd nearby.
But what she said on Capitol Hill about the recently assassinated Charlie Kirk went even further than usual.
And Kirk’s executive producer, Andrew Kolvet, was quick to call her out on it during a recent Fox News appearance.
According to the Daily Caller:
“But the fact that we can’t even get people to agree on that, is really disappointing,” Kolvet added. “The fact that she would put her words in public like that is disappointing, and I hope that she receives all of the appropriate backlash for that, just as Jimmy Kimmel did. That’s what we’re talking about. You can say things, sure, you have the freedom to, but we have the freedom to respond the way that we want, and, frankly, I think a lot of Americans find it disgusting what’s happening.”
While speaking on the House floor against Kirk’s resolution, Ocasio-Cortez said the ceremonial measure would “bring great pain” to Americans who have faced “segregation, Jim Crow and the legacy of bigotry.”
“His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans far from ‘working tirelessly to promote unity’ asserted by the majority in this resolution,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks did attract plenty of the “appropriate backlash” Kolvet sought, as evidence by the following social media examples:
95 Democrats voted in favor of the resolution honoring Charlie Kirk. 118 Democrats voted for political violence, with 58 voting against it, 38 voting present, and 22 Democrats didn’t vote at all.
Then @AOC took the House floor to gaslight/lie to the country about Charlie Kirk. pic.twitter.com/uIGi3SvR2e
— The Mad Anthony 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 (@Crapitol_Hill) September 19, 2025
Unlike AOC, at least Charlie Kirk contributed something of value to the world pic.twitter.com/wCcNGudQCb
— Marie Isabella (@MarieIsabellaB) September 19, 2025
We should be clear who AOC is! She is a Soros radical install who has masked a fortune of 30 million since leaving bartending position. This is Charlie Kirk! The man of God she villainized on the floor today. Good vs Evil on display for all to see ‼️pic.twitter.com/PwiUIxEMgc
— GinnyM 🇺🇸🙏✝️ TRUMP WON – KARI LAKE WON (@PatriotXV11) September 19, 2025
Fox News reported that AOC’s speech was a “smear” against the slain conservative pundit. Here’s one of several fact-checks the outlet published:
AOC CLAIM: Charlie Kirk was “a man who believed that the Civil Rights Act that granted Black Americans the right to vote was a ‘mistake'”
During a Feb. 2, 2024, podcast episode with “Fearless” host Jason Whitlock, Kirk acknowledged his ideas about the Civil Rights Act and its role in American society were “provocative,” thanking Whitlock for the opportunity to further explain.
ADVERTISEMENT“It’s an awful provocative conversation I started. I stand by it, and I appreciate the opportunity. I mean this sincerely, Jason — to explain it. There’s even some people on the right that have been just throwing insults, and they would never have me on the show to explain it.”
Kirk went on to say he extensively researched what the Civil Rights Act was, what it tried to accomplish, how it was sold to the American people at the time and how it is perceived now by the modern academic consensus.
“At the time, of course, there were legislative priorities that needed to be done by the federal government to stop bitter segregation — I’ve always held that,” Kirk said. “The American people thought they were getting minor legislative adjustments to say that segregation based on race is evil and wrong. In reality, what they got was the birthing of a permanent deep state of bureaucrats that were looking for racism where it didn’t exist, eventually with affirmative action, quotas and hiring practices expanded beyond race into LGBTQ-type issues.
“What the Civil Rights era really birthed was this idea that it’s the federal government’s job not just to say that discrimination is wrong, but to actively go against any sort of disparate outcome and try to even the score under the guise of equity.”
Kirk went on to discuss Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech, saying he “100% bought into” the need for equality, but adding he believed the Civil Rights Act was expanded further than the initial intention.
“At the time, a majority of Americans wanted to see an end to desegregation,” he said. “They didn’t want to see new segregation put forward in eventually anti-White hiring practices, affirmative action or the entire federal bureaucracy having racial hiring quotas.
“Eventually, you look around and you have the left defending Black-only dormitories at hundreds of universities across the country, Black-only graduation ceremonies. … You look back to the Civil Rights Act and you say maybe we overreached and built something we didn’t intend, a federal Leviathan in the form of anti-racism.”
Here’s more from Kolvet:


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