Piers Morgan \u2013 Daily Mail Sept 14, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\nThe phrase ‘jumped the shark’ originated from an episode of hit ’70s comedy TV show Happy Days when The Fonz inexplicably stopped being the world’s coolest dude and jumped over a caged shark on water-skis.<\/p>\n
The excruciating scene became synonymous with anything that was once popular and deemed ‘cool’ but suddenly loses relevance after a woefully misguided attempt at generating publicity or attention spectacularly backfires.<\/p>\n
As I perused all the coverage from last night’s Met Gala<\/strong><\/a>, never have the words ‘jumped the shark’ seemed more ironically relevant<\/p>\nWhere do I even start with this towering monument to hilarious hypocrisy and horrifically hideous ‘haute couture’?<\/p>\n
Well, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seems a good place for an opening salvo:<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Tickets for the Met Gala cost $35,000 a head, enough to feed three average American families of four for a year according to the United States Department of Agriculture. Yet Ocasio-Cortez believed it was her ‘responsibility’ to attend this ludicrously pointless celebration of totally unnecessary and often cringe-worthy extravagance. In a comical effort to fend off her critics, she wore a white dress with the words ‘Tax the rich’ sprawled across in it in red lettering<\/p><\/div>\n
The socialist Congresswoman has spent the past few years lecturing the entire world on the planet-ending evils of materialistic, vacuous, obscenely ostentatious capitalism.<\/p>\n
Yet here she was prancing about on the red carpet at the most materialistic, vacuous, obscenely ostentatious example of capitalism imaginable \u2013 surrounded by hundreds of the wealthiest and most privileged people in American society.<\/p>\n
Tickets for the Met Gala cost $35,000 a head, enough to feed three average American families of four for a year according to the United States Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n
Yet Ocasio-Cortez believed it was her ‘responsibility’ to attend this ludicrously pointless celebration of totally unnecessary and often cringe-worthy extravagance.<\/p>\n
In a comical effort to fend off her critics, she wore a white dress with the words ‘Tax the rich’ sprawled across in it in red lettering.<\/p>\n
But who was she kidding?<\/p>\n
Not Andray Domise, from black news network Rezistans Nwa, who pointed out that the gala was taking place just yards from where the NYPD were arresting ‘defund the police’ protesters – a cause that AOC has previously supported.<\/p>\n
‘Police were creasing people’s heads outside while you and your friends were nibbling watermelon tarts with smoked yuzu soy on panipuri crackers,’ he seethed on Twitter.<\/p>\n
Naturally, Ocasio-Cortez believed she was still being a good little socialist, disingenuously insisting that her only motivation for attending the fancy party was to prompt a debate about taxing the rich.<\/p>\n
‘We need to break the fourth wall and challenge some of the institutions,’ she said. ‘While the Met is known for its spectacle, we should have some conversations about it.’<\/p>\n
Unfortunately for her, the only conversation about the Met Gala today is what a flaming hypocrite she is.<\/p>\n
And so is New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who two years ago gave this explanation for why he never attended the Gala: ‘It’s an elite gathering, I’m not an elite guy. Let’s make it real simple, it’s just not my thing. This is the kind of place where the elite goes and likes to be with each other, and I have a different approach.’<\/p>\n
Yet there he was last night, hobnobbing with the very elite he professes to despise. What a fraud!<\/p>\n
Where do I even start with this towering monument to hilarious hypocrisy and horrifically hideous ‘haute couture’?<\/p>\n
Well, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seems a good place for an opening salvo:<\/p>\n
<\/a>Tickets for the Met Gala cost $35,000 a head, enough to feed three average American families of four for a year according to the United States Department of Agriculture. Yet Ocasio-Cortez believed it was her ‘responsibility’ to attend this ludicrously pointless celebration of totally unnecessary and often cringe-worthy extravagance. In a comical effort to fend off her critics, she wore a white dress with the words ‘Tax the rich’ sprawled across in it in red lettering<\/p><\/div>\n
The socialist Congresswoman has spent the past few years lecturing the entire world on the planet-ending evils of materialistic, vacuous, obscenely ostentatious capitalism.<\/p>\n
Yet here she was prancing about on the red carpet at the most materialistic, vacuous, obscenely ostentatious example of capitalism imaginable \u2013 surrounded by hundreds of the wealthiest and most privileged people in American society.<\/p>\n
Tickets for the Met Gala cost $35,000 a head, enough to feed three average American families of four for a year according to the United States Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n
Yet Ocasio-Cortez believed it was her ‘responsibility’ to attend this ludicrously pointless celebration of totally unnecessary and often cringe-worthy extravagance.<\/p>\n
In a comical effort to fend off her critics, she wore a white dress with the words ‘Tax the rich’ sprawled across in it in red lettering.<\/p>\n
But who was she kidding?<\/p>\n
Not Andray Domise, from black news network Rezistans Nwa, who pointed out that the gala was taking place just yards from where the NYPD were arresting ‘defund the police’ protesters – a cause that AOC has previously supported.<\/p>\n
‘Police were creasing people’s heads outside while you and your friends were nibbling watermelon tarts with smoked yuzu soy on panipuri crackers,’ he seethed on Twitter.<\/p>\n
Naturally, Ocasio-Cortez believed she was still being a good little socialist, disingenuously insisting that her only motivation for attending the fancy party was to prompt a debate about taxing the rich.<\/p>\n
‘We need to break the fourth wall and challenge some of the institutions,’ she said. ‘While the Met is known for its spectacle, we should have some conversations about it.’<\/p>\n
Unfortunately for her, the only conversation about the Met Gala today is what a flaming hypocrite she is.<\/p>\n
And so is New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who two years ago gave this explanation for why he never attended the Gala: ‘It’s an elite gathering, I’m not an elite guy. Let’s make it real simple, it’s just not my thing. This is the kind of place where the elite goes and likes to be with each other, and I have a different approach.’<\/p>\n
Yet there he was last night, hobnobbing with the very elite he professes to despise. What a fraud!<\/p>\n
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