What the flugelhorn? Top TV journalists freak out if you suggest President Biden is showing signs of experiencing a mental decline, but it's apparently fair commentary to call him "Genocide Joe"?
On Sunday's Meet the Press, host Kristen Welker interviewed radical-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and at the end, gently questioned whether it's fair for her colleague Rashida Tlaib and other leftist friends of hers to accuse Biden of supporting genocide.
That's deeply weird. In early December, Welker pressed Ron DeSantis six times to denounce Trump for referring to radical leftists and Marxists as "vermin.". And who can forget Welker fighting with Donald Trump, attempting misinformation by insisting the Democrat Party doesn't support abortion being legal without limits? This was pussy-footing.
KRISTEN WELKER: Some of your colleagues – and we talked about what's happened at the protests this week have called the president “Genocide Joe.” Some of your colleagues have accused the president of supporting genocide, including Rashida Tlaib. Do you agree with that word, genocide, that the president's been supporting a genocide? Or does that go too far?
REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: I think what we are seeing right now throughout the country is that young people are appalled at the violence and the indiscriminate loss of life. We are not just seeing 25,000 people that have died in Gaza. We are seeing the starvation of – of millions of people, the displacement of over 2 million Gazans. We have South Africa that has mounted a court in the ICJ [International Court of Justice]. The ICJ ruled this week that Israel has a grave responsibility to prevent genocide.
No one wondered if Hamas was genocidal. Welker's followup merely suggested calling Biden "Genocide Joe" was a preliminary insult!
WELKER: But they're still determining whether it's a genocide --
OCASIO-CORTEZ: And I think that the fact that –
WELKER:– they're still determining whether it's a genocide. Do you think that term is responsible –
OCASIO-CORTEZ: They are still determining it.
WELKER:– given that it's still under investigation?
OCASIO-CORTEZ: I believe that – they're still determining it, but in the interim ruling, the fact that they said there's a responsibility to prevent it, the fact that this word is even in play, the fact that this word is even in our discourse I think demonstrates the mass inhumanity that Gazans are facing.
AOC claimed "In our polling, we are seeing large amounts of Americans concerned specifically with that word. So, I don't think that it is something to completely toss someone out of our public discourse for using. But I think what we are seeing here is that the Netanyahu government has lost public support and that we have a responsibility to protect the human rights and the humanity of Gazans and hostages alike in the area."
Most of Welker's interview was about how Biden needed the "progressive" vote and whether the Biden campaign had reached out to AOC for help. The congresswoman talked around it -- so Team Biden has not requested her aid on the campaign trail.
