The NYT Performs Loyal Stenography—Masquerading as Journalism—to Protect AOC
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
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The New York Times dutifully protects AOC after her disastrous interview flop at the Munich Security Conference.
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| 0:00.0 | I want to talk to you about a genuinely unbelievable article in the New York Times about |
| 0:11.6 | Alexander Ocasio-Cortez. And when I say genuinely unbelievable, I mean, even for somebody |
| 0:16.7 | like myself who has expressed disgust and contempt for the practice of corporate media for more |
| 0:22.6 | than two decades. It's kind of a you have to read it to believe it article, which is why I think |
| 0:27.9 | it's worth covering. Before I do that just quickly, for those of you who don't know, and you probably, |
| 0:32.2 | I think most of you do, we recently moved from Rumble back to Substack last Monday. |
| 0:38.7 | There you can see it on the screen, our substack page at Glenn Greenwald. |
| 0:43.2 | We already have a lot of articles, a lot of different kinds of content. |
| 0:47.2 | It's really freeing, not to have to do a nightly show every single night live at the same |
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| 1:00.6 | know, if you watch this channel because we did a video report on it two days ago, |
| 1:04.7 | Alexander Ocasio-Cortez spent two weeks telling the national, really the international media |
| 1:10.6 | that she was about to have her big coming out party as a foreign policy expert, as someone who has gravitased on international affairs, who's ready to offer a competing vision of what American foreign policy should look like that draws a sharp contrast with the one established by Donald Trump and J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio. |
| 1:28.5 | This was her debut on the international stage to show that she is not just somebody who can |
| 1:34.4 | call people racist and sexist and just kind of spew clichés, but she's actually a very |
| 1:40.2 | deep, informed, thoughtful, philosophical foreign policy thinker. |
| 1:46.7 | And there were all these articles dutifully written in every major newspaper |
| 1:49.6 | in the United States and Europe about how she's about to make her big appearance. |
| 1:53.3 | I'm so highly anticipated. |
| 1:55.4 | And she went to Munich and really, I mean, she just, there's no other way to put it. |
| 1:59.7 | She really just fell flat on her face. |
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