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Top-rated Fox News host Tucker Carlson blasted a new book by the editors at New York Magazine touting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that he said opens by “comparing [her] to Jesus” and lavishing what he describes as undue praise on the New York lawmaker.
Noting that he wanted to open his Friday program with a more serious topic such as the ongoing crackdown on Freedom Convoy protesters in Canada or potential war in Ukraine, Carlson suggested he had “limited self-control of stuff like this.”
“t’s an amazing book. Let’s put it this way. 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,” he said.
Carlson was referencing the tome, “Take Up Space: The Unprecedented AOC,” which is set for release next week, describing it as “a book-length suck-up” to the self-described democratic socialist lawmaker.
“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,” Carlson continued.
“Yes, it’s a lighter topic than tyranny in Canada or war in Ukraine. Our only excuse is it’s Friday and we’ve got limited self-control of stuff like this. It’s an amazing book. Let’s put it this way. 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,” he said.
Here is more of Carlson’s monologue:
Here’s a section in which the fangirls at New York Magazine let us know why they wrote this book in the first place. There are a lot of politicians they could have fawned over. They picked Sandy Cortez because she’s a lady.
BOOK PASSAGE: To say she is a feminist is to understate the facts. Ocasio-Cortez is the first politician in history to live fully out loud while female, and the degradations of womanhood are personal to her.
So she’s not just the first woman to represent her congressional district in the state of New York. She’s the first woman in human history to get elected to something and then “live fully out loud while female.” What exactly does that mean? Is it a trans thing? Honestly, we don’t know. She’s definitely loud. But we did understand the next line: “The degradations of womanhood are personal to her.” Well, that’s certainly true. No one has done more personally to degrade American womanhood than Sandy Cortez has. She is living proof that 60 years of feminist liberation did not work. Sandy Cortez has not empowered. She’s neurotic and silly. She is far more frivolous than any 1950s housewife ever was. June Cleaver was a more serious person. At least she made dinner. Here’s what Sandy Cortez does. She puts on makeup while talking about herself.
He then played an excerpt of Cortez taking a video of herself while putting on makeup and complaining that she is not taken seriously in Congress.
As the youngest woman in Congress … and as a woman of color, it’s so hard to be taken seriously. It’s just, you know, it’s like any workplace where sometimes it feels like you have to jump up and down for anyone to listen. It’s just really difficult because some people are just born in bodies that are naturally taken more seriously. People already try to diminish me and diminish my voice as young and frivolous and unintelligent.
“They don’t take me seriously when I put on eyeshadow. People are calling me unintelligent just because I’m dumb. It’s pretty funny, but the funniest of all was hearing Sandy Cortez described herself as a ‘woman of color,'” Carlson continued. “She often does. No one ever dares to challenge that description, but every honest person knows it is hilariously absurd.”
Later, he added mocked the book’s authors for seeming to compare AOC to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who guided the country through the Great Depression and World War II:
BOOK PASSAGE: She offered the reassuring warmth of Oprah; the fire and brimstone of Jonathan Edwards, the inspiration of John F. Kennedy; the intimacy of an FDR fireside chat. It was exhausting and reassuring and scary and comforting and extremely weird.
“The intimacy of an FDR fireside chat.” Sure, except that FDR never told us about his skin-care regimen. Somehow, he was able to win the Second World War anyway. You wonder how he did that. You also wonder what brand of concealer he used. Sadly, there was no Instagram then, so the details have been lost to history. Thank Heaven we know what Sandy Cortez uses.