The Daily Beast reports:
Multimillionaire primetime Fox News star Tucker Carlson labeled progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) a “child of privilege” on Monday night—just two weeks after his colleague Laura Ingraham mocked AOC over her bartender past.
According to Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson’s own Wikipedia page, the Fox host knows a thing or two about privilege himself. Carlson’s father is Richard Carlson, former director of the Voice of America and president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting who also served as a U.S. ambassador. His stepmother is an heiress to the Swanson frozen-food fortune.
Carlson, after attending an elite boarding school, attended the private liberal arts school Trinity College, where he graduated with a degree in history. Before becoming a Fox News on-air personality in 2009, Carlson was fired from both CNN and MSNBC after his shows at those networks failed.
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Tucker Carlson says AOC is a child of privilege pic.twitter.com/4sx74Sgtms
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) April 21, 2020
“AOC is a child of privilege” says Tucker Carlson who was born with a silver fish stick up his ass.
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) April 21, 2020
Tucker Carlson has been wealthy his entire life. He was born into wealth and has failed up ever since then. After college, AOC took a job as a bartender and waitress to help her mother—a house cleaner and school bus driver—fight foreclosure of their home. But… https://t.co/TWhh2eHFGy
— Touré (@Toure) April 21, 2020