‘You are a creep, bro,’ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after Fox host Tucker Carlson calls her white

Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson went after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday night, claiming she was not a woman of colour.

“She’s a rich entitled white lady,” he said.

In response, New York Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, known as AOC, said, “This is the type of stuff you say when your name starts with a P and ends with dejo.”

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Dictionary.com defines pendejo as “a mildly vulgar insult for ‘asshole’ or ‘idiot’ in Spanish”.

“Once again the existence of a wife or daughters doesn’t make a man good. And this one is basura,” she added.

Basura is Spanish for “trash”.

Carlson was also accused of sexual harassment by her.

Ocasio-Cortez was born in the Bronx to a Puerto Rican mother and a Bronx-born father. She has stated that she is a lady of colour.

Carlson said, “No one ever dares to challenge that description, but every honest person knows it is hilariously absurd.

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“There is no place on Earth outside of American colleges and newsrooms where Sandy Cortez” – Carlson’s snide remark about the New York congresswoman – “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 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 what shade they are,” he added.

The leading provocateur on Fox News’ evening lineup was promoting ‘Take Up Space: The Unprecedented AOC,’ a book on Ocasio-Cortez written by Lisa Miller, a New York magazine reporter.

Carlson described Miller’s book as “a box of Fig Newtons. You know it’s wrong to open it, but the temptation is strong, and so we did.”

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Several of the excerpts Carlson read, according to the media watchdog Mediate, were “fawning in nature and weave mundane videos AOC has posted online – such as her assembling Ikea furniture – into a grand narrative about her life”.

“I’m alone today,” the congresswoman is described as stating “pointedly” into a camera in one section, according to Carlson.

“Is it just us or does that sound like an invitation to a booty call?” Carlson said.

“Maybe one step from ‘What are you wearing?’ Either way it’s a little strange. It’s definitely over-sharing and yet, according to the book, oversharing is the key to Sandy Cortez’s success.”

“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,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote.

“You’re a creep, bro. If you’re this easy with sexual harassment on air, how are you treating your staff?” she concluded.