A day after Fox News’ Tucker Carlson aired a segment describing her congressional district as “filled with garbage,” U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized the network on Wednesday for airing “unmitigated racism” with no accountability.
She tweeted Wednesday that describing immigrants as dirty is a “lazy, tired, racist trope.”
The liberal New York Democrat’s popularity has made her a frequent target of Fox News Channel’s opinion hosts. Carlson, in particular, has targeted Ocasio-Cortez for supporting a “Green New Deal” of environmental legislation.
On Tuesday’s show, Carlson said Ocasio-Cortez’s district in the New York City borough of Queens is “filled with garbage, litter and trash piled in public places” and is plagued by homelessness. As he spoke, the screen filled with pictures of overflowing trash bags on sidewalks and a half-filled water bottle leaning against a curb.
“It’s not that hard to pick up garbage off the street of your own congressional district,” Carlson said. “How can we take seriously anything she says about the environment when this is her congressional district? She should be ashamed of this.”
I go back and forth on whether to go on Fox News.
The main reason I haven’t is squaring the fact that the ad revenue from it bankrolls a white supremacist sympathizer to broadcast an hour-long production of unmitigated racism, without any accountability whatsoever. https://t.co/Yn1XZ912f7
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 11, 2019
In New York, like in most cities, sanitation issues are handled by the local, not the federal government.
Carlson interviewed a guest, Seth Barron, an editor of the City Journal, who described Ocasio-Cortez’s district as the “least American” in the country, “occupied by relatively few American citizens” and high percentage of people who came to the country illegally. He offered no statistics to support the claim.
Barron said people are crammed into illegal living spaces producing a lot of garbage that landlords don’t want to dispose of normally, so a lot ends up in the street.
“It can be a little gross,” Barron said.
Ocasio-Cortez’s congressional office did not respond directly to Carlson’s commentary on Wednesday. But she retweeted a clip of the segment saying that she goes back and forth on whether she should make appearances on Fox News.
“The main reason I haven’t is squaring the fact that the ad revenue from it bankrolls a white supremacist sympathizer to broadcast an hour-long production of unmitigated racism, without any accountability whatsoever,” she wrote.
Fox News had no immediate response to the congresswoman’s tweets.
(AP)
Join the official YWN WhatsApp status
6 Responses
Why AOC doesn’t condemn Joe Biden instead who called poor black kids cockroaches in the recently released video?
The canine representing that district has barked again. Can’t take the truth, and uses the typical liberal left defense of labeling it racism. Call it whatever you want, o dear intellectually challenged congresswoman. But the photos aren’t lying. Can’t keep your district clean? Try pitching in to clean it. Don’t run around anyone that proves your deficiencies as a victimizer. You are the problem. Try solving it, instead of complaining and blaming others.
Fox “News” has far more garbage than the dirtiest corner of New York City.
She forgot to say that it’s misogyny.
Imbecilic, racist loserette.
> “sanitation issues are handled by the local, not the federal government”
But even without money to back her up, how about her “moral” voice as leverage to “her” district to “shame” the local government into action?
But there is always Fed money around. How about the Fed grants for garbage recycling? Or even more, to quote the FEDERAL EPA web site:
> Grants and funding are available for various aspects of many cleanup programs. These include encouraging community involvement in the cleanup process, supporting training related to cleanups, and helping to fund cleanups and redevelopment. Please see the appropriate grant and funding opportunities listed below [on the web site].
huju. is shows that your brain is shaped by watching too much CNN.