Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, has taken off her aluminum foil hat to sort out extra urgent points, like destroying public media and accosting journalists.
The chair of the Delivering on Authorities Effectivity Committee held a listening to Wednesday to assault the general public broadcasting organizations, NPR and PBS.
Throughout her opening remarks of the listening to, titled “Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the heads of NPR and PBS Accountable,” Greene accused PBS of utilizing “taxpayer funds to push some of the most radical left positions like featuring a drag queen.”
She then went on a tirade towards drag performer Lil Miss Sizzling Mess, calling her a “monster” and a “child predator” for allegedly showing on a PBS youngsters’s present.
PBS confirmed that Lil Miss Sizzling Mess by no means appeared on a youngsters’s program, however that she was on a separate YouTube collection that was in a roundabout way distributed to youngsters.
Greene additionally argued that NPR and PBS ought to not obtain authorities funding, claiming that the “communist” retailers are guilty for the US’ large debt.
Alongside together with her GOP colleagues, Greene additionally berated the retailers for his or her supposed lack of protection on matters just like the Hunter Biden laptop computer scandal and right-wing conspiracies concerning the origin of the coronavirus.
She then concluded by calling for public media to be dismantled.
“After listening to what we’ve heard today, we will be calling for the complete and total defund and dismantling of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting,” she mentioned in her closing assertion.
Greene even continued her inflammatory remarks towards the media and journalists after the listening to.
When a British Sky Information reporter requested Greene concerning the ongoing conflict plans leak fiasco, the MAGA diehard did what she does greatest: say one thing extraordinarily inappropriate whereas cameras are rolling.
“Okay, we do not give a crap about your opinion and your reporting. Why do not you return to your nation?” Greene mentioned.
She then went off on a tangent about immigrants, telling the reporter that the UK has a “major migrant problem,” and that she ought to “care about [her] own borders.”
“I don’t care about your fake news,” Greene mentioned.
NPR and PBS will survive a minimum of till 2027, since funding has already been authorised. After that, all we will do is hope.
