The Dr C Robert Jones Situation Report

Will the media ever call out Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's ignorance?

 Even after the mostly breezy interview on Wednesday with CNN’s Chris Cuomo, the New York Times should transition from describing Ocasio-Cortez as a “political rock star” to “kind of slow.” 

Cuomo asked Ocasio-Cortez basic questions about her political positions, like whether she supported Rep. Nancy Pelosi for House speaker — “We gotta take a look at what’s going on," Ocasio-Cortez said — and how the U.S. would pay for multitrillion-dollar universal healthcare, to which she questioned why we don’t consider “the cost of all the funeral expenses of those who died” because we don’t have universal healthcare.Instead of asking if Ocasio-Cortez was sober, Cuomo simply nodded along thoughtfully.

This is the person liberal New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg on Thursday describedas “charismatic and rousing.”