The Notorious MTG

CBS's "60 Minutes" aired a Lesley Stahl interview with U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene this past weekend. Because the reboot of "The Equalizer" was pre-empted by a country-music awards show, that meant that CBS viewers were only subjected to one obnoxious woman on a Sunday night. 

Alas, obnoxiousness is actually one of  Marjorie Taylor Greene's good points.  She has long been a politically reactionary she-beast who is on record as opposing aid to Ukraine, strongly supporting massive cuts in government spending and zeroing out subsidies for environmentally friendly energy, and claiming that "Jewish space lasers" are responsible for the wildfires in California.  And the Georgia congresswoman didn't tone down her rhetoric for Lesley Stahl either, insisting that the Democrats in general and  President Biden in particular are pedophiles.  Taylor Greene told Stahl that Democrats  groom children for sexual purposes by supporting sex-affirming care as proof. 

CBS got a lot of blowback for letting this interview even happen, but pundits have pointed out that, if Stahl had not given the blonde QAnon Republican missing link oxygen, Taylor Greene would have still found a way to get some.  Ignoring a celebrity boor no longer works.  People of Taylor Greene's ilk have learned how to become so popular and so important they can't be ignored; Donald Trump perfected such a modus operandi to an art form long before he even entered politics.   By interviewing MTG - and also contradicting some of her most glib and outrageous statements - Stahl was able to show Americans what they are up against - and how important it is to see just what a dangerous loose cannon she (MTG, not Stahl) is.

Though I'm surprised that Stahl, who, in common with a lot of people of her religion and ethnicity, is Jewish, didn't press MTG about those Jewish space lasers.