By Dan Murphy
Fox TV host Tucker Carlson knows that when it may be a slow news day, or if he wants to push an easy button for ratings purposes and to keep the media writing about him, one person always does the trick; AOC.
Congressmember Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez usually responds to Tucker’s rants on Fox about her. The latest two are when he called her an “entitled white lady.”
Carlson made the comments on his show Feb. 18, when AOC characterized herself as a “Woman of Color.” “No one ever dares to challenge that description, but every honest person knows it is hilariously absurd. 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.”
AOC is Puerto-Rican, and that qualifies her to say she is a woman of color, but not according to Carlson.
“She’s the pampered obnoxious ski bunny in the matching snowsuit who tells you to pull up your mask while you’re standing in the lift line at Jackson Hole,” he added. “They’re all the same. It doesn’t matter what shade they are. She’s a rich entitled white lady.”
AOC responded with “This is the type of stuff you say when your name starts with a P and ends with dejo,” she said, spelling out the Spanish word “pendejo,” which translates to asshole.
Carlson went back to AOC verbal combat the following day, Feb. 19, when Congressmember Ocasio-Cortez posted on IG that she was “alone and exhausted.” Somehow, Carlson took that to mean that AOC was “initiating a booty call,” in his words.
AOC responded on Twitter with, “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
“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
“Remember when the right wing had a meltdown when I suggested they exhibit obsessive impulses around young women? 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?
“Once again, the existence of a wife or daughters doesn’t make a man good. And this one is basura,” which translates to trash.
In this media “rap battle.” we give AOC the victory. Some of Carlson’s prior stories and commentarites about AOC we agree with but not this one. First, his argument that because AOC went to high school in Yorktown, (my hometown) doesn’t mean that she is a woman of color is nonsense. And then to try and associate an Instagram post that millions of young women post at the end of a long work day as a “booty call,” makes me think that maybe its time for some new story writers on his Fox show.
