Senator Launches Cynical Attack On 'Attractive' Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The condescension toward the progressive lawmaker was palpable.

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said the “attractive” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is as “shallow as a puddle” on Fox News Tuesday, continuing the GOP’s targeting of the progressive lawmaker. (Watch the video below.)

In a discussion with host Sean Hannity about Democratic leadership, Kennedy doled out a dismissive takedown cloaked in folksiness.

“Well, look, I don’t hate anyone, Sean, but congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez is a creature, a creation of the media,” Kennedy said. “She checks all the boxes. She’s young, she’s liberal, she’s attractive, she’s ethnic. Her problem is that she’s shallow as a puddle. You scratch the surface and you just get more surface.”

Kennedy then piled on to a recent claim repeated by Hannity that the progressive congresswoman spent lavishly at nice hotels while touring with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to rally the left. Her travels, which included at least one first-class flight, were said to be at odds with her criticism of class disparity. But the reports included no specifics of how many people were involved or what the expenditures were. Fox News published a similar report on Wednesday.

“For her recent conduct, which you talked about, she gets and and deserves a certificate of hypocrisy,” Kennedy continued. “And I would remind her that it’s it’s not your beliefs that make you a good person. It’s your behavior. Watch what politicians do, not what they say.”