You would think that if there was any sort of news show set up to take full advantage of highlighting how it came to be that a Republican who needed to be hidden when she first got to office because she was humiliating Republicans becomes – over two years – perhaps the most powerful Republican in the House, it would be 60 Minutes. Because they have the investigation team to really pin a person to a wall, and there is a lot to investigate about MGT.
Questions go all the way back to December 2020. No one will ever forget this:
Here's video of Marjorie Taylor Greene at the White House in late Dec 2020 saying she had a "great planning session for our January 6th objection. We aren't going to let this election be stolen by Joe Biden and the Democrats. President Trump won by a landslide." Expel Greene now. pic.twitter.com/oogwe20Z8K [1]
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) January 28, 2021 [2]
Trump loves loyalty above all else and Marj gave Trump everything he wanted. Thus, she is no obviously the most important Republican in the House. If Kevin upsets Marj, a phone call will go down to Mar-a-Lago.
There are so many questions.
But apparently, Lesly Stahl didn’t intensely sit Marj down for a serious talk. There is a lot of disgruntlement on the net about the puff piece photo that has been released ahead of the interview. Granted, perhaps MTG did get hammered behind the cameras, but there doesn’t seem to be any tension in this picture.
If you are interviewing Marjorie Taylor-Greene, it’s not your job to be her friend. And yet, isn’t that what this photo looks like? Two friends out taking a mild walk?
From 60 Minutes promo. pic.twitter.com/sEJYjVONSW [3]
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 1, 2023 [4]
If that is the promo then there is very little reason to believe that we’ll get any serious answers to serious questions and Twitter is furious:
Confounded that at this stage of a long and illustrious career Lesley Stahl is choosing this hill to die on. Because it will dominate her legacy.
— Mollie Katzen (@MollieKatzen) April 1, 2023 [5]
60 Minutes has irreparably soiled their credibility with this one.
— β€οΈπ§‘πα°iaπππ (@mommamia1217) April 1, 2023 [6]
Lesley stahl has demeaned @60Minutes [7] to its very basement (which is below the gutter) foundation. That women gets plenty of (as in way way too many) microphones her way..and cameras, which cannot find a good side on her.
— Brandon (@brandon75209) April 1, 2023 [8]
Leslie Stahl should hang it up after this, so should @CBSNews [9] .
— Claire Sπ€πβ€οΈxoxoπ¦ (@SaintLaurant) April 1, 2023 [10]
The way they are giving this Capitol attack apologist a platform is disgusting
— π§π»π©π»π§π»π· πΊ And Now This… (@hcesd) April 1, 2023 [11]
Time for Leslie to retire. Just ruined her legacy with this one interview. π
— Professor Marvel (@DavidWi16981463) April 1, 2023 [12]
I'm disgusted that 60 minutes would normalize her
— Steve Spencer (@x22steve8224) April 1, 2023 [13]
It would have been so easy for @60Minutes [7] to just not do this. π€¦πΎββοΈ
— ππ‘π’ππ’ (@ChidiNwatu) April 1, 2023 [14]
My hunch without seeingt the full footage is that 60 Minutes were expecting Taylor-Greene to say something that would incriminate them, but the chance never revealed itself to them, so 60 Minutes were forced to go with the footage they had.
I might be wrong, but that's my hunch.
— Ben πΊπ¦ πΉπΌ (@Ben_Symak) April 1, 2023 [15]
I am (unfortunately) familiar enough with MTG to know that she wouldn't do an interview with the mainstream media unless she was completely convinced that outcome would be a puff piece.
— April Lee (@I_am_April_Lee) April 1, 2023 [16]
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[email protected], @JasonMiciak, with Nicole Hickman