From the New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz:
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Donald J. Trump warned on Wednesday that a caravan of Democratic women was heading toward Washington, D.C., with the explicit goal of invading the nation’s capital.
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“The Democrats are responsible for sending this caravan, and, frankly, it’s a disgrace,” he said. “They are sending some dangerous women.”
The prospect of this women’s caravan leaping into the Halls of Congress has sent nervous shudders throughout the administration.
Elaborating on the threat posed by the caravan, Trump said, “Some of these women have fought in wars. They have fired guns. One of them is a mixed-martial-arts specialist. These are women who will kick your ass without hesitating.”
Fox News, desperately circling its wagons, has decided the only way to defend themselves is to focus on one particular woman, perhaps hoping that the other ones will simply go away, as pointed out by CNN’s Dean Obeidallah:
President Trump's favorite network has what I'd like to refer to as "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez derangement syndrome." They can't stop talking everything Ocasio-Cortez, from her choice of footwear to the type of apartment she can afford to the alleged impending doom she presents for America.
Fox’s ultra-obsessive focus on Ocasio-Cortez has already surpassed comic levels,
So what's driving all of this? Could it be that Fox News is realizing its longtime bogeywomen, Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi, are losing their luster for their viewers? (I actually enjoy flipping on Fox News on occasion because on that network it appears that Hillary Clinton is president.) Given that the Democrats won the most House seats this past election than in any year since 1974, using Pelosi to scare Fox News viewers into action doesn't seem to work anymore.
One of these days you would think that Fox’s viewers would finally realize how they’re being played. Or... maybe not.
Though we cannot know Fox News's motivations with any degree of certainty, one thing is clear: The more viewers keep tuning into segments in which they obsess over Ocasio-Cortez, the more the network will keep producing them.
So expect to see more of Fox News' Ocasio-Cortez derangement syndrome on display until the network can find a new "villain" who plays better for their audience.
They shouldn’t worry. The coming months are sure to provide more women “villains” for Fox News than they could have ever possibly imagined.