Over the weekend, we were treated to all manner of media coverage of the Munich Security Conference, one of the perpetual confabs of contempt where global elites are collocated, and the bulk of the world’s population ignores them, save for taking two actions. Whenever world leaders gather, it is the wise people who clutch their wallets and pull down the hardbound copies of The Constitution and The Federalist Papers.
For this quorum, however, the press was all tittering because of the attendees. There was Gavin Newsom glomming the camera time because there was another event allowing Governor Brylcreem to ignore his actual job duties. Here was Mark Kelly, trashing the nation on a global platform and declaring for the 2,691st time how he was being silenced by President Trump. And Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer arrived to sound like an HOA president trying to enforce neighborhood mailbox protocols while unable to operate a tape measure.
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What was obvious in this manufactured import was that the Munich conference was used to platform the Democratic Party's presidential field for 2028. Much like the Toronto Film Festival every fall serves as the launching pad for Academy Award season promotions, Munich was being used as the Dems' cotillion for their ballot hopefuls.
The dense darling of the group was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who made headlines for all the wrong reasons as she spouted idiocies from her pout-hole. For days now, AOC has been splashed across the news and social media for displaying a level of brain freeze in Germany so profound that she managed to surpass her own record of cerebral cul-de-sac processing. It was a performance bad enough that Sen. Mazie Hirono probably was embarrassed for her.
Just don’t rely on the coverage from Bloomberg to let you know that. While the nation, and a fair portion of the planet, was laughing over the Congresscritter being incapable of answering a standard question regarding Taiwan, the news outlet was displaying the type of supportive white knight coverage we can come to expect when the campaigns take effect. Looking back at the revisionist reporting on display during the last election, AOC will surely be granted the “Kamala Koverage 2.0”. And this Munich appearance showed she will certainly require it.
At my Townhall media column, I have one category I use called Democratic Custodial Services, where the press slides in and offers cleanup when a Democrat politician fouls something up. AOC’s German fiasco was broad enough that Bloomberg acted like a team from Servpro arriving after an F-5 twister.
As an introduction, they did not help their own cause by admitting that AOC was basically out of her depth from the start. The reporting duo of Nick Wadhams and María Paula Mijares Torres admit that AOC, “is better known for her strong progressive stances than her foreign policy views.” They go on to further undercut the New York representative by adding that she lacks serious international heft since she is not serving on either the Foreign Affairs or Armed Services Committees.
All told, Alex From The Bronx has only shown interest in Latin American affairs (naturally, for the Puerto Rican descendant) and Palestine (like everyone else in her party, save for John Fetterman). To get a taste of what the AOC Doctrine may look like, it would amount to “We suck and want to be like you!”
Her ineptitude did not dissuade Wadhams and Mijares from their appointed duties. The pair tells us that AOC’s performance was NOT a crater-inducing affair, but instead it was a display of rationality and lucid leadership. I kid you not.
First, they deliver this oblivious nugget from Alex:
She demanded a foreign policy approach that counters record inequality and looks to undo a world “dominated by a handful of elites, a handful of oligarchs that sit in pretend democracies and make backdoor deals with one another.”
She says this at a conference peopled by world leaders and political elites, and then we hear she sat in with those various leaders and political elites. It may be a tie between AOC and these reporters as to who is more ignorant.
They do get around to affirming AOC’s vapor-lock moment when trying to respond to questions from Bloomberg’s own Francine Lacqua: “This is such a, a, you know, I think that, this is a, um, this is of course, a, ah, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States.” Just…damn. After that dive off the train trestle she may have a better claim than Joe Biden to a stuttering speech impediment.
But then the cleanup effort begins. These reporters insist that, eventually, she gave a cogent response. This entailed her giving a decaffeinated proposal that we should avoid conflict, a level of discourse on par with a beauty pageant ditz, suggesting we should strive for world peace. Of course, the next move was to allow a spokesperson to be granted airtime to wave away the fog of her commentary.
Ocasio-Cortez hesitated “because she wanted to be careful about what she was saying,” Matt Duss, who advises Ocasio-Cortez on foreign policy, said in an interview. “I wish more politicians would wait to answer instead of rattling off talking points.”
Then, as if this insistence that what we heard was not a quintessential example of vapidity, they close out their reassessment with another dose of AOC serving up some Kamala-level balloon juice brilliance, and how this wowed the Euro-dunce set in attendance.
“There have been many leaders who have said we will go back but I think we have to recognize that we are in a new time. Many of us are here to say, ‘We are here, we are ready for the next chapter, not to have the world turn to isolation but to deepen our partnership on greater and increased commitment to integrity to our values.”
The remark drew sustained applause from the crowd.
It says everything that she managed to say nothing, and they were impressed. That explains so much about the state of the European Union today.
AOC has been at this since 2018, and it is clear she has not managed to get any better at what she does. After more than half a dozen years in D.C., she not only has yet to rise above the level of a babbling bartender, she somehow sounds like a hooch slinger who may be sampling her products while filling orders. For anyone in the press to be impressed, they sound like one of her inebriated customers.
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