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defended her shaky showing at the Munich Security Conference in an interview with the New York Times Tuesday, arguing that her remarks were met with approval by Europeans and that critics were attempting to “distract from the substance” of her message.
“To Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, the discourse about her visit had missed the more important point about the risks of authoritarianism — an argument that she said had been well-received by the Europeans during two foreign policy panels, private meetings with German leaders and an address in a packed university auditorium in Berlin,” theOcasio-Cortez and the New York Times are facing criticism over a piece that appears to try and clarify her remarks at the Munich Security Conference.Ocasio-Cortez, 36, argued that conservatives seized on “any five-to-10-second thing” from her gaffe-filled remarks in an effort to “distract from the substance of what I am saying.” Browning acknowledged that the progressive firebrand’s “missteps” at the conference were “striking,” describing her as a politician who is “usually quick on her feet” and “one of the best communicators in politics.”AOC’s ‘genocide’ libel in Munich stokes Jew-hatred in California “One could dissect her words for the next ten years straight, with the best of intentions, and still one would not glean anything coherent or useful from them,” wrote National Review’s Charles C. W. Cooke. “This wasn’t the fault of ‘conservative social media’ or ‘rocketing’ or ‘speculation’; it was the fault of Ocasio-Cortez herself, who went to a security conference, was asked questions about security, and fell flat on her face at the first hurdle,” In one brutal moment at the conference, Ocasio-Cortez stumbled over her words for nearly 20 seconds when asked if she would commit to defending Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion. “Um, you know, I think that this is such a, you know, I think that this is, this is of course a very longstanding policy of the United States,” she mumbled as she struggled to answer.called AOC’s response “embarrassing,” during an interview on Fox News’ “The Story with Martha MacCallum” Tuesday, suggesting that the congresswoman “ought to go read a book about China and Taiwan” before stepping on the world stage again. “I think a person who doesn’t know what she actually thinks,” Vance told MacCallum. “And I have seen this way too much in Washington with politicians, where they are given lines, and when you ask them to go outside the lines they were given, they completely fall apart, because, look, does AOC — does anybody really believe that AOC has very thoughtful ideas about the global world order or about what the United States should do with our policy in Asia or our policy in Europe?The New York Times has also come under fire, with critics likening the outlet to a public relations firm, for allowing Ocasio-Cortez to use Browning to rehab her appearance at the conference. “Some guy named Kellen is running a PR campaign for AOC’s presidential strategy while saying he’s a reporter,” Trump administration official Richard Grenell“The most surprising thing all this is her apparent surprise that she’s being scrutinized … .” Bade wrote on X.The Munich trip was widely viewed as an effort by Ocasio-Cortez to build up her foreign-policy portfolio ahead of a possible 2028 White House run – which she vehemently denied throughout the Times piece. “If I were running — if I had made a decision or anything about being president, or Senate, or anything like that — frankly, I say this all the time: Am I acting like someone who is trying to run? No! Because I’m there for a very different, specific purpose,” she said.Stepmom's haunting plea before cheerleader found dead in LV murder-suicideTrans dad shoots wife, 3 kids in horrid 'family dispute' at crowded RI hockey arena — as players and fans are seen scrambling to safety‘Big Bang Theory’ star secretly uses $45M net worth to pay off random families’ medical billsWhoopi Goldberg Addresses Her Appearance In the Epstein Files On ‘The View’: “You Used To Have To Have Facts Before You Said Stuff”Ocasio-Cortez and the New York Times are facing criticism over a piece that appears to try and clarify her remarks at the Munich Security Conference.
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