Tucker Carlson and his garbage guest, wingnut editor of City Journal Seth Barron, tossed out the dog whistles Tuesday night in favor of a bullhorn, attacking both Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her constituents, saying that her district is "dirty" because it is "one of the least American districts in the country."
"We're connoisseurs of irony on this show," Carlson said, "but if you claim to care about the environment, you'd think that the little piece of America you're responsible for, that you represent in the Congress, would be clean, but hers isn't. Why?" While the two talked, video of trash on streets—presumably in Queens, but it could have been anywhere in New York—played.
"Well, part of the reason is because her district is actually one of the least American districts in the country," Barron piped up. "And by that, I don't mean that it's not part of America, but it's occupied by relatively few American citizens. A very high percentage of her district is, in fact, illegal aliens." Fact check: The Census Bureau shows that in 2018, just over 45% of residents of New York's 14th Congressional District were foreign-born, most coming from Latin America and Asia, according to the website Census Reporter. There's absolutely no evidence to suggest that the residents of the district are undocumented, but if they're brown, they must be "illegal," right?
Barron went on and on, spewing nonsense like, "The way they inhabit housing there is such that they live in a lot of illegal spaces like basements, and many people live there, so they wind up producing a lot of garbage that the landlords don't want thrown out normally." So "you wind up with a lot of garbage on the streets, you have illegal food vendors pouring their pig grease into the gutters." It would be an insult to pigs to say it takes one to know one.
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