Let’s face it: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lives rent-free in Tucker Carlson’s head. Since her election to Congress in 2018, the Fox News host has devoted an enormous — if not downright obsessive — amount of mental energy to discrediting and mocking the New York congresswoman. Tucker even has his own special nickname for the object of his fixations: Sandy Cortez.
Tucker, leaning into his reputation as a serial agitator, continued his ongoing attacks against Ocasio-Cortez on Tucker Carlson Tonight Friday evening, devoting nearly 20 minutes to a segment that purported to be about an upcoming book about the congresswoman — but instead covered everything from his bizarre insistence that AOC, a Latina, is not a “woman of color,” to over-analyzing years-old Instagram posts.
The most egregious of Carlson’s comments came after the host revisited a 2019 Instagram Live in…
