Tucker Carlson began his show by reviewing some excerpts from an upcoming book about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). In doing so, he said the second-term congresswoman and Latina is not a woman of color, but rather a “rich, entitled, White lady.” The Fox News host had his producer read excerpts of the book, which is authored by writers at New York magazine. Several of the passages are fawning in nature and weave mundane videos AOC has posted online – such as her assembling IKEA furniture – into a grand narrative about her life.

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