Newsmax host Rob Finnerty delivered a hilarious critique of the left’s bizarre trend of suddenly adopting exaggerated accents — especially Spanish ones — in political settings.
This follows The Gateway Pundit’s report exposing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s wild accent-switching tirade while stumping for far-left NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. AOC cycled through multiple personas as she screamed into the microphone during a weekend rally.
On Tuesday, Finnerty weighed in on the phenomenon, saying he’s far more fascinated by Democrats’ “shape-shifting accent” habit than anything they actually say.
During a segment recapping the NYC mayoral debate, Finnerty played a clip of moderators introducing candidates and panelists — with heavy, performative Spanish pronunciations.
Then he unloaded.
“Whenever it is a Spanish name, we are suddenly required and expected to shapeshift into the perfect Spanish accent,” Finnerty said. “Normal news people forget years of training and their non-regional diction.”
He argued that anchors don’t adopt accents when pronouncing Irish or Chinese names, joking:
“If I was moderating, would they introduce me as ‘Robert James Finnerty, don’t ya know?’” he said in a thick Irish brogue.
Finnerty mocked the growing media habit of rolling every “R” and pronouncing every syllable with dramatic flair:
“We’re living in the U.S., not a country where Spanish is the national language. Just say the name normally. Stop doing it.”
He also criticized the trend of using full multi-part names only when they’re Hispanic:
“Nobody calls me Robert James Finnerty. I’m just Rob. We don’t need to say Kilmar Abreu Garcia. It’s just Kilmar Garcia.”
Finnerty closed with a blunt message:
“Enough’s enough. Stop. Just stop.”