When Bill Maher does something similar it is considered cutting edge.
Via CR:
The Left’s faux outrage mob has come for a satirical CRTV video.
On Monday, CRTV posted a video of host Allie Stuckey conducting an “interview” with socialist Democratic House candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In the video, Stuckey asks questions, and footage from Ocasio-Cortez’s viral interview on “Firing Line” with Margaret Hoover is used for her “answers.” The footage is edited hilariously, humorously making Ocasio-Cortez look like she admits to having no idea what she’s talking about — and it’s obviously satirical.
For example, Stuckey asks, “Do you have any knowledge whatsoever about how our political system works?” and a clip shows Ocasio-Cortez shaking her head “no.” That’s almost as bad as Ocasio-Cortez’s real answers in the real interview with Hoover, where she blasted the Israeli “occupation of Palestine” before admitting she’s not a foreign policy expert and made totally silly claims about U.S. unemployment.
A rabid mob of blue checkmarks and their followers on Twitter jumped into action to accuse CRTV of presenting a fake interview as real news and deceiving viewers.
A doctored video of @Ocasio2018 has over a million views on Facebook. It takes her @FiringLineShow interview out of context to make it look like she doesn’t know answers to questions she was not asked.
https://t.co/uU3oA7ooaf— Jane Lytvynenko ??♀️??♀️??♀️??♀️ (@JaneLytv) July 24, 2018
Manipulated video to create entirely fake interview presented as real by verified account here and on Facebook where it has over 1.1 million views in less than 24 hours. https://t.co/P6E5LfQi3K
— Robert Mackey (@RobertMackey) July 24, 2018