Why are they so, so interested in her?
By Erik Wemple Erik Wemple Media critic with a focus on the ups and downs and downs of the cable-news industry. Email Bio Follow Media critic March 22 at 1:10 PM Fox News host Sean Hannity slammed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on his Thursday show, saying she pushes “bizarre, far-left radical ideas.” Hannity slammed her on his Wednesday show as well for taking “planes instead of the train, the Acela, Amtrak despite her calls to abolish air travel.
“I mean, it’s weird. Why are so many grown men just obsessed with this, like, 29-year-old?" responded Ocasio-Cortez, who drew laughter from the crowd with her jibe. “On second thought,” she joked. Asked whether her Republican colleagues extract bad information from Fox News, Ocasio-Cortez replied in the affirmative: “One of the side-effects of . . . this Fox News lunacy is that other actual members of Congress believe it and see it uncritically.
There are many reasons Ocasio-Cortez is a Fox News star. One is that the network will jump on any pretext for mocking a lefty, as host Laura Ingraham displayed on her show. Another is Ocasio-Cortez’s profile. Like President Trump, Fox News needs an opponent, a detractor, an enemy to add conflict and edge to its broadcasts.
Peel away those layers, though, and you get to the core answer, which is that Ocasio-Cortez wants to raise taxes on the rich. And as we learned earlier this year, that idea — and its historical and logical merits — is enough to short-circuit the ideologues over at Fox News.Alexandra Petri: I am sick of hearing about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from myself, talking about herMarc A.
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