Kruiser’s Worst Week Ever: The Lurking Danger That Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Over the past couple of days, a couple of illustrations of this were front and center.

On Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez joined Jake Tapper’s CNN State of the Union hackfest, where she wasted no time in repeating something false:

The rumor that President Trump had referred to the Wuhan coronavirus as a “hoax” at the outset of the outbreak was debunked several weeks ago, by several different outlets. But Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was determined to keep the false narrative alive on CNN this weekend.

“We’re hearing it every step of the way from this administration,” Ocasio-Cortez said on Sunday’s “State of the Union.” “First we’re hearing it was a hoax. Then we were hearing that everything was fine.”

No, we weren’t actually hearing it. The full context of Trump’s “hoax” remarks reveal that he was referring to Democrats who were trying to turn the outbreak into another partisan game. But for some reason, Jake Tapper let AOC roll with it.

Tapper not only let her roll with it, but offered some tortured, nonsensical explanation:

Note how Tapper admits he knew it was false but still can’t condemn AOC for saying it.

All bow to the Queen.

On Monday, AOC was on Twitter running interference for Senate Democrats as they shamefully once again blocked a vote on a coronavirus relief package. Once again, the Little Bartender That Could was making claims that weren’t even close to being true.

She had to be fact-checked by someone from the NRSC because no one in the mainstream media was going to do it:

Ocasio-Cortez may not yet be old enough to be president, but I have seen more than one lefty journo wax rhapsodic about the day that she will be. That’s what the party wants for her too. Should she ever launch a presidential bid, the media will redefine journalistic irresponsibility. It’ll make the kid gloves treatment that Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris got this past year look like relentless character assassination.

It’s not that America doesn’t want a female president, it’s that the Democrats just keep picking the worst women ever to celebrate.

That’s probably sexist.

But definitely accurate.

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PJ Media Associate Editor Stephen Kruiser is the author of “Don’t Let the Hippies Shower” and “Straight Outta Feelings: Political Zen in the Age of Outrage,” both of which address serious subjects in a humorous way. Monday through Friday he edits PJ Media’s “Morning Briefing.”