Details in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal proposal have sent many heads to desks and palms to faces. One example had to do with a section about “farting cows” and getting rid of airplanes asap:

Did a C-Span caller write this? pic.twitter.com/asMAoipglf — Jimmy (@JimmyPrinceton) February 7, 2019

And that’s when Washington Post political reporter Dave Weigel came to AOC’s defense, saying that the proposal doesn’t really say what it says:

"get rid of airplanes that fast" is literally the text of the document Dave is going all in on. pic.twitter.com/DtZQfQtNbf — Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) February 7, 2019

Weigel also addressed the “farting cows” and defended AOC from ridicule of the proposal:

Thank you for block-quoting the whole graf, so that people can see why you're being dishonest. Unless you think she was also *literally* discussing a plan to ban cows from farting.https://t.co/QIci2RhqDm — Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) February 7, 2019

A member of Congress has made a proposal that would cost in the tens of trillions if not more and there are parts not meant to be taken literally?

How are we supposed to take it, Dave? It's an official policy proposal from sitting members of congress endorsed by presidential candidates. Not a beauty pageant answer. Seriously but not literally right? https://t.co/8xUYpbyuB9 — Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) February 7, 2019

It doesn't actually say get rid of airplanes.

Here's the part where it says get rid of airplanes.

That's not serious.

Democracy Dies in fart noises. — Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) February 7, 2019

“Knowing empowers us. Knowing helps us decide. Knowing keeps us free”… except maybe not literally.

I don't understand this tweet. Are we not supposed to take this, an official outline for future legislation, literally? Are supposed to interpreted it figuratively? — ThirstyMayor (@thethirstymayor) February 7, 2019

Dave's job is to explain why news stories that embarrass Democrats don't matter. https://t.co/3sG7JCnpZF — Currently between fraudulent suspensions (@jtLOL) February 7, 2019

Ignoring that it literally says "get rid of planes that fast" (which suggests that the plan is to get rid of planes, but that's going to take time), I'd like to draw your attention to the first sentence. Planes, as it seems you are unaware, run on fossil fuels. https://t.co/RYn83Z02xK — Eric Spencer (@JustEric) February 7, 2019

Dave's right. We shouldn't take any of this proposal seriously. https://t.co/klxvCI6lva — BT (@back_ttys) February 7, 2019

It’s so beyond parody that I honestly thought she wrote it as a joke to troll people. And yet, there are people actually defending it. That’s crazy. That’s scary. — Sean Morgan (@gamerollerb) February 7, 2019

dave you do spend this much time responding to critics of GOP legislation — Joe Gabriel Simonson (@SaysSimonson) February 7, 2019

We look forward to Rep. Ocasio-Cortez helping the media point out which parts of the Green New Deal proposal aren’t to be taken literally.