do better, New York Times.

And thus Dope thinks AOC is stupid and Trump is brilliant. When will the press stop showing this bias and stop sane-washing Trump?

I mean, it's not like they haven't covered his "weave," as he likes to call it.

The former president says that his style is to “weave” from one subject to the next. Others see something more worrisome in his ramblings

https://archive.ph/LI8z9

I’m racking my own brain trying to figure out why the Times would take such a cheap shot at AOC. ‘because fuck you, that’s why’ is the only rationale I can think of.

Because she blew the question. Yes, presenting her answer with all the "er's" and "ummm's" in it makes her look worse, because that always makes you look bad - people speak differently than they write. But watching the video isn't much better. She clearly wasn't prepared to answer that question. Presenting her "umm's" and "uh's" is the way that authors talking about that lack of preparedness can communicate that to a reader, rather than a viewer. She stammered through her response. If she went to Munich to shore up her foreign policy chops (for whatever reason), she didn't meet the moment:

https://archive.ph/FHtyf

That's different than saying she's an idiot, of course - she just was unprepared to address the question. Even the smartest folks can get tripped up if they get asked a question they weren't expecting on a topic that they're not prepared to talk about. But it's still a problem that she wasn't prepared to talk about it. If you want to seriously engage on foreign policy, having a meaningful view on Taiwan's security situation and the U.S.' role in that should be something you prioritize.