New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez got in a social media feud with Tucker Carlson and proved she can’t take the heat, or understand the Constitution, by calling for the Fox News host to be silenced for “harassment.”
AOC said:
“I genuinely want to know why Tucker Carlson is allowed/paid to engage in clear, targeted, libelous harassment that endangers people and 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, and 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.
“You’re a creep bro,” she said.
“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.”
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
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 19, 2022
Carlson had blasted AOC during his show in response to the release of her new book, saying:
“Out of nowhere, we received an early copy of ‘Take Up Space: The Unprecedented AOC.’
“It’s a book-length suck-up to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by the editors at New York Magazine. It’s coming out next week.
“Now, a hagiography of Sandy Cortez is like a box of Fig Newtons.
“You know it’s wrong to open it, but the temptation is strong, and so we did.
“And before we knew it, we consumed the whole thing.
“We still feel sick. So that is what we’re opening with tonight, the new Sandy Cortez book.
“It 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. It is a remarkable piece of journalism.
“But the funniest of all was hearing Sandy Cortez described 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.
“There is no place on Earth, outside of American colleges and newsrooms, where Sandy Cortez would be recognized as a ‘woman of color,’ because she’s not.
“She’s a rich, entitled White lady. 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.
“They’re all the same. It doesn’t matter which shade they are.
“Apparently, the editors at New York Magazine don’t ski.
“They spend the entire book pretending that Sandy Cortez has just emerged from some teeming favela in the slums of Rio to save the world’s poor.
“Reading it, you would have literally no clue she was a credentialed member of the over class.
“You’d think she was St. Francis,” he said.
“‘I’m alone today,’ Ocasio-Cortez says, pointedly at the camera.
“Is it just us, or does that sound like an invitation to a booty call? Maybe one step from, ‘What are you wearing?’
“Either way, it’s a little strange. It’s definitely oversharing and yet, according to the book, oversharing is the key to Sandy Cortez’s success,” he said.
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
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 19, 2022
This is the type of stuff you say when your name starts with a P and ends with dejo https://t.co/92chHFQUN7
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 19, 2022
