This week’s Liberal Media Scream features the acid 60 Minutes interview of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene by Lesley Stahl.
In it, the Georgia Republican pushed back hard against Stahl’s trolling interview that included a hater’s list of nasty comments thrown at the lawmaker ever since she first ran for the North Georgia House seat.
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For her reporting project, Stahl went on social media to “look up” some of the comments. She read them to Greene, who shrugged, “Looks like the average troll in my Twitter feed, so I don’t really care.”
There was no mention in the televised story of the times Greene has been swatted in several cases where she was worried about becoming a so-called “death by police” victim.
Stahl also couldn’t resist the standard liberal media mantra on the necessity of raising taxes.
On the debt ceiling, Stahl asked, “Would you be willing to vote for compromise? In other words, raise some taxes?” Greene replied: “I don’t think we have a revenue problem in Washington. We have a spending problem.” Stahl sneered, “That’s glib. That’s glib.”
From Sunday’s 60 Minutes on CBS:
LESLEY STAHL: We looked up some words that have been said about you.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: OK.
STAHL: “Crazy,” “Q-clown,” “Looney Tune,” “unhinged,” “moron.” Pretty ugly stuff.
GREENE: Looks like the average troll in my Twitter feed, so I don’t really care.
STAHL: You’re used to it?
GREENE: I don’t let name-calling bother me or offend me. I just don’t.
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STAHL: Would you be willing to vote for compromise? In other words, raise some taxes?
GREENE: I don’t think we have a revenue problem in Washington. We have a spending problem.
STAHL: You know something? That’s glib. That’s glib. That, what does that mean? The two sides have to come together and hammer it out.
GREENE: Cut spending.
STAHL: Both sides.
GREENE: Both sides need to cut spending.
STAHL: Where do you want to cut it?
GREENE: COVID bailout money and a lot of green energy spending.
STAHL: But are you willing to let us go into default?
GREENE: No. I’ve always said I wouldn’t do that.
STAHL: So, would you compromise?
GREENE: It depends.
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STAHL: On taxes? You won’t.
GREENE: No, I’m not raising taxes.
Brent Baker, vice president of research and publications for the Media Research Center, explains our weekly pick: “The 60 Minutes story was unremarkable in many ways as Stahl painted, as you’d expect from the establishment media, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as a crazy far-right extremist. But Stahl showed how she and CBS News consider the congresswoman first and foremost to be an impediment to their consistent demand that taxes must be raised. In that respect, to CBS she’s just as awful as any conservative who prefers cutting spending to raising taxes.”
Rating: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
