CNN is one of the home team networks for Democrats.
But even pro-Democrat media outlets find themselves in a bind.
A CNN panel melted down over this damning truth about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The fallout continues from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s humiliating performance at the Munich Security Conference, where she vomited up a word salad about committing troops to defend Taiwan in the event of a Communist Chinese invasion.
‘UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK…’ Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appears to stumble during foreign policy question on U.S. defending Taiwan at Munich Security Conference. pic.twitter.com/z9FwhCSIc6
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 16, 2026
On Abby Phillip’s CNN show, Arii Champion and other left-wing panelists jumped down the throat of Newsmax host James Tabacco for panning Ocasio-Cortez’s performance.
Pro-Trump Shark Tank host Kevin O’Leary jumped to compare Ocasio-Cortez’s meltdown to Kamala Harris’s incoherence.
“Let’s say you’re hired to give a speech. Let’s say you’re hired because you’re expected to deliver information to an audience. Let’s say you’re even paid for it,” O’Leary stated. “When you go and do that, what happens is the agency that hired you, whether it’s the government, your own party, says, ‘That was not your best moment.’ In fact, they tied you back to Kamala Harris. You were so bad, you sounded like her. And, by the way, I’m sorry, it’s not a partisan issue. She was terrible! Get over it. Maybe she’ll get better.”
That only enraged Chamion even further.
“No. But the reality is, if you take just a minute and not be condescending, I really believe what she was —” Champion ranted before o’Leary interjected. “I’m condescending? I’m trying to help her, lift her —”
That caused another panel meltdown with Champion and others berating O’Leary.
“Any of us talked like that, Abby would tell the producers, ‘Don’t have them on anymore.’ We wouldn’t be on ever again,” Tabacco lamented.
“Everyone, stop talking, please, for just a moment. Stop talking. Thank you. John and Kevin, you all are strongly criticizing AOC for making flubs,” Phillips stated.
“She was terrible,” O’Leary declared. “That’s why.”
To make matters worse for Ocasio-Cortez, this performance came after months of rehearsals.
“AOC has been advised by Matt Duss, the former foreign policy adviser to Sanders and EVP at the progressive think tank Center for International Policy. The two have met roughly half a dozen times over Zoom and in person since she received her invitation,” POLITICO reported.
Ocasio-Cortez tried to laugh it off, claiming conservative media invented a hoax to cover up her awful debut on the world stage.
“This reporter came up to me and was like, ‘Is Munich the new New Hampshire?’ And I cannot say enough how out of touch and missing the point, genuinely, that is,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a New York Times interview.
But it’s widely assumed that Ocasio-Cortez is running for President in 2028.
And this was the first impression she made in voters’ minds.
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