The Georgia Republican is fast falling out of favor for her opposition to the Ukraine aid bill.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s failed fight to end aid to Ukraine, and her sort-of-serious crusade against House Speaker Mike Johnson, has cost her the support of right-wing media.
The Sunday front page of the New York Post, owned by the conservative Murdoch family, was the latest outlet to attack Greene, invoking the “Moscow Marjorie” nickname coined by former representative Ken Buck.
Fox News, another arm of the Murdoch media empire, had already taken aim at the Georgia Republican last week, with columnist Liz Peek calling her an “idiot” and saying she needs to “turn all that bombastic self-serving showmanship and drama queen energy on Democrats.” This follows an editorial last month from The Wall Street Journal, also in the Murdoch portfolio, that called Greene “Rep. Mayhem Taylor Greene” and accused her and her allies of being “most interested in TV hits and internet donors.”
Even a non-Murdoch outlet is on the attack, as conservative Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Debra Saunders demanded to know “who put Marjorie Taylor Greene in charge?”
They aren’t only just now realizing that she’s an idiot; even they have known that for a while. She’s just not useful to them anymore, so they have no need to keep her around.
That headline made me lol. She is an idiot.
She is such an idiot, I’d feel bad for her if she wasn’t also a completely insufferable person
She sure is.
Good to see from conservatives.
She’s demonstrably heterosexual.
[But in your thickest Russian accent… try it, it’s fun.]
Russian media telling us she’s “demonstrably heterosexual”. Moscow Marge super-gay confirmed??
My first response was: “I’d be willing to watch any video proof for or against that assumption.” I think it may be time to re-evaluate my standards a bit.
It’s that batshit crazy eyes, her insane passion and she’s a life ruiner for sure… Just, If her views weren’t so utterly abhorrent I bet she’d be a fun date.
She hasn’t caught up to the fact that the game is now “try to claw back a semblence of seriousness for the party and hope the public forgets the last eight years of fully mask-off right-wing politics”.
That’s why Mike Johnson was brought in. He’s just as crazy as the rest of the far-right and is committed to their theocratic white nationalist policies, he just doesn’t get embroiled in twitter flame wars or say face-palm stupid stuff about jewish space lasers in public.
It’s interesting to see the GOP in retreat for once. I guess catching the car on abortion has been a painful lesson.
It’s nice that Trump’s delaying tactics mean that all his trials are now going on at the same time.
She hasn’t caught up to the fact that any protestations around money for Ukraine was just political theatre.
Any moment now, she’ll get a call from the Whips office, to remind her that once all the hootin and hollerin is done and it’s time to vote, the golden rule applies ;
you never vote against giving public money to party donors especially when they are from the US arms industry - which is where most of the money will end up.
I think I’m actually more mad about “Murdock owned media outlet, Murdock owned, also Murdock owned outlet oh and Murdock owned media. By the way, Murdock owned media outlet. Would you believe it, also Murdock owned outlet.”
Ffs… Right wingers go on and on about the “deep state.” How about how all of your goddamn brain rotting anti-reality “news” is coming from ONE GODDAMN ASSHOLE.
FOX is in deep with the Pentagon and has been since its inception. So I’m not shocked to see them find issue with MTG for failing to be hawkish enough (on Russia). But I think TNR underestimates how much Murdoch This and Murdoch That is, itself, falling out of favor with mainstream conservatives.
We played this game back in 2008, when the Murdoch Press went hard in the paint for Rudy Giuliani and he couldn’t break double digits in his “strong” state of Florida. Same thing happened to Marco Rubio and Ron DeSantis and Nicki Hailey.
Wingers love FOX when its slinging the red meat - criminal drug using migrant caravans and hordes of anti-semitic Columbia students and black teenager shoplifting rampage - but they fall out fast when Greg Gutfeld and Dana Perino aren’t screaming about how Woke Swifties Are Ruining Football.
How about how all of your goddamn brain rotting anti-reality “news” is coming from ONE GODDAMN ASSHOLE.
The QAnon Crowd has largely walked away from FOX and moved on to harder stuff - OAN, Alex Jones, 4chan/Truth Social, etc. Go check out “QAnon Anonymous”, a great source for monitoring and cataloguing the sheer depth of the crazy going on in the danker corners of the internet.
FOX has an average audience measured in the 1-2 million views. Compare that to Joe Rogan’s podcast, which regularly hits above the 10M listener mark.
FOX has an average audience measured in the 1-2 million views. Compare that to Joe Rogan’s podcast, which regularly hits above the 10M listener mark.
Wait, really?
https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/friday-april-19-scoreboard-msnbc-is-most-watched-network-at-4-p-m/
Network ratings peak with Jesse Watters, at around 2.5M views.
The Joe Rogan Experience, which has an exclusive deal with Spotify, sat comfortably on top of Spotify’s U.S. podcast charts as of the end of June, and had the biggest weekly audience in the U.S. so far this year, according to Edison Research—the show, which has a loyal fanbase, is widely estimated to bring in 11 million listeners per episode.
Rogan also dominates in the coveted 25-45 demographic, where FOX is lucky to break six-digit ratings.
but if they absorb his identity into themselves, maybe they’ll finally get some money
But not yet!
Even if everything Murdoch-owned dried up and blew away, they have other parts of their complete media system that would fill in - think of it - these people can live their entire lives, going from website to radio show to podcast to TV stations and never hear/see anything but that which will reinforce their worldview.
Oh so NOW idiots are a problem for them?
Quickly? this idiot has been propped up and waved around for what feels like 4 years…
Couldn’t be happening to a nicer person.
(/s if it wasn’t obvious)
turn all that bombastic self-serving showmanship and drama queen energy on Democrats.
Huh, saying the quiet part out loud.
Liz Peek calling her an “idiot” and saying she needs to “turn all that bombastic self-serving showmanship and drama queen energy on Democrats.”
Liz Peek thinking she’s better than MTG, yet playing the same game.
I don’t care who it is or what their motives are. She’s finally getting called out for her bullshit from folks she’s supposedly on the “same side” with?
I can’t wait until she runs for re-election.
She is currently running for re-election.
Sorry, I should have phrased that differently:
I can’t wait for the results of her run. :)
Don’t get your hopes too high. I’ve lived in GA and frequently drove through her district. There’s jack shit out there. No major businesses, no public services, no food outside of Subways, Bojangles, and McDonald’s. It’s mostly farmland with some really small towns filled with the kind of people who would vote for MTG. They’re not at all informed and really don’t care about anything more than “owning the libs.”
To be fair, some of it is Chattanooga suburbs, there are the carpet manufacturers in Dalton, and that Buc-ee’s opened a few years ago (that counts as fine dining, right?).
Fair point, but I’m still going to hope. Sounds like Boebert is never coming back, 2/2 would be a nice win.
She’s running without a republican challenger. She won the last election 66% to 35%. Georgia’s 14th district hasn’t voted blue since its gerrymandered inception. I wouldn’t hold my breath.
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy, but they may give me a tactical advantage.
Eventually they might even realize that MTG works for Putin, not Georgia.
They all do, they all do…
