NY Times Uncorks AOC Stenography: Unfair Scrutiny of Slip-ups Overshadowed ‘Message’
20th February 2026
New York Times reporter Kellen Browning is a superfan of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) – in April 2025 he celebrated the “monster crowds” the younger leftist generated on her “Fighting Oligarchy” with older leftist Sen. Bernie Sanders.
After an embarrassing performance at the Munich Security Conference in which she blanked out, made factual gaffes, and otherwise demonstrated the perils of rarely being challenged by reporters stateside, she called in a Times reporter, who’d been tweeting about her European tour, for a lifeline. He readily obliged with stenography, even admitting it on X.