Ms Rachel’s Gratingly Artificial Personality Takes Insidious Turn

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Children’s entertainer Rachel Anne Accurso, aka Ms Rachel, boasts 19.3 million subscribers on YouTube. 

Accurso’s most popular video, “Baby Learning with Ms. Rachel – First Words, Songs and Nursery Rhymes for Babies,” has over 1.9 billion views. It’s typical Ms. Rachel schlock: bright colors, cartoon images, exaggerated gestures. Accurso wears her channel uniform: a pink headband, a pink t-shirt underneath denim overalls, and a permanent open-mouth smile. 

Accurso is now applying her expertise in being really annoying to a new field: political agitation. 

Accurso spoke to 9-year-old Deiver Henao Jimenez, who is being held with his parents at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas, in early March. (RELATED: DUKE: Washington Post ‘Investigation’ Reveals ICE Facilities Experience Summer) 

“Oh, I’m so sorry,” Accurso tells the boy in an Instagram video posted March 12. “A lot of people want to try to help.” 

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“It was unbelievably surreal to see this sweet little face and feel like I was on a call with somebody who’s in jail,” Accurso told NBC News. “It........

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