Journalist on CNN Claims Conservative Media ‘Terrified’ of Ocasio-Cortez

Brent Baker | January 28, 2019
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Appearing on CNN’s Reliable Sources on Sunday, journalist Laura Bassett claimed Fox News attacks freshman Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez because “she ticks every box that makes conservative men uncomfortable.”

Bassett, the Huffington Post’s senior culture and politics reporter until she was laid off last week, asserted Ocasio-Cortez “is threatening white conservative men’s power and they’re terrified of her.” She soon declared “they’re trying to take her down. They’re using all the tricks in the patriarchy.”

From the January 27 Reliable Sources on CNN, picking up after host Brian Stelter prompted her with this leading question: “What do you think is fueling the constant attacks on Fox against this freshman Congresswoman?”

LAURA BASSETT: Look, she’s got a target on her back because she ticks every box that makes conservative men uncomfortable: She’s a woman, she’s Latina, she’s young, she’s working class, she’s a millennial, she’s a Democratic socialist. Everything that makes people uncomfortable. And she’s a star, she’s a rising Democratic star. She’s got a lot of power. People are really responding to her on social media, as Charlotte [Alter of Time magazine] said, in the same way that people responded to Trump kind of emotionally a couple of years ago. So, I think, in some ways, she’s sort of the ideal anti-Trump and she is threatening white conservative men’s power and they’re terrified of her.

STELTER: And thus she’s a feature on Fox. That’s what you’re saying?

BASSETT: Absolutely. They’re trying to take her down. They’re using all the tricks in the patriarchy.

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