Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) responded late on Friday to Fox News host Tucker Carlson mocking her over an upcoming book about the congresswoman that paints a glowing picture of her.
Carlson had planned on talking about Canada’s tyrannical crackdown on truckers during Friday’s broadcast, but then received an early copy of New York Magazine’s new book on Ocasio-Cortez, “Take Up Space: The Unprecedented AOC.”
“The book opens by comparing Ocasio-Cortez to Jesus, and then it suggests that because she once got second place in a high school science competition, she could have gone on to win the Nobel Prize,” Carlson said.
“The funniest of all was hearing Sandy Cortez describe herself as a ‘woman of color.’ She often does. No one ever dares to challenge that description, but every honest person knows it is hilariously absurd,” Carlson said.
“There is no place on earth, outside of American colleges and newsrooms, where Sandy Cortez would be recognized as a quote, ‘woman of color.’ Because she’s not. She’s a rich, entitled white lady. She’s the pampered, obnoxious ski bunny in the matching snow suit who tells you to pull up your mask while you’re standing in the lift line at Jackson Hole. They’re all the same. It doesn’t matter what shade they are.”
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Ocasio-Cortez responded on Twitter, writing: “This is the type of stuff you say when your name starts with a P and ends with dejo,” referring to the derogatory Spanish term “pendejo.”
“Remember when the right wing had a meltdown when I suggested they exhibit obsessive impulses around young women?” she continued. “Well now Tucker Carlson is wishing for… this on national TV. You’re a creep bro. If you’re this easy w/ sexual harassment on air, how are you treating your staff?”
“Any man that talks like this will treat any woman like this,” she continued. “Doesn’t matter if you’re Republican, Democrat, or neither, this is clearly not a safe person to leave alone w/ women. Once again, the existence of a wife or daughters doesn’t make a man good. And this one is basura.”
Several hours later, AOC continued by claiming, “I genuinely want to know why Tucker Carlson is allowed/paid to engage in clear, targeted, libelous harassment that endangers people &drives so many violent threats that ppl have to fundraise for their own safety.”
“Why should they have to pay for his harassment? Make it make sense,” she claimed. “It’s not within the realm of political commentary, & it’s not just me. He regularly targets people that do not have access to resources for protection. Once he gets to fantasizing about ‘booty calls’ of women on national TV I cease to see the political value outside of incitement.”
This is an excerpt from The Daily Wire.
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