Of big and loony lies
Walk with me for a few paragraphs.
I promise you I won无毛视频檛 bite.
The Big Lie lives.
There are Americans who still swear Donald Trump beat Joe Biden in a landslide. And that Biden无毛视频檚 7,052,770 lead in the popular vote, had been the handiwork of demonic vote-counters, and rigged voting machines.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is among those Americans.
She无毛视频檚 probably the loudest practitioner of 无毛视频淭he Big Lie.无毛视频�
I am loath to inject vernacular into these scribblings.
But I must.
I fear Rep. Greene is just a little 无毛视频渃ray cray无毛视频�.
She was Georgia无毛视频檚 dirty little secret when she won her congressional seat last November.
The folks in her congressional district knew she had been inclined to voice her support for wild conspiracies. They still gave her a rousing, 50-point victory over her hapless Democratic opponent.
Her future constituents knew she had claimed the mass murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School and Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida were faked.
And that she无毛视频檇 implied that Hillary Clinton had engaged in some form of pedophilia involving human sacrifice.
They didn无毛视频檛 care.
Marjorie Taylor Greene was their kind of candidate.
Admittedly, I haven无毛视频檛 spoken to any of those voters to ascertain their feelings about Rep. Greene.
I can无毛视频檛.
I tend to speak in complete sentences.
On Insurrection Day, when many congressmen and congresswomen went in hiding from the American terrorists who无毛视频檇 seized the Capitol building, Marjorie Taylor Greene gained her first national recognition.
She was shown openly ignoring a request to wear a mask among the people in the overcrowded room.
That was on Jan. 6. She无毛视频檇 only been sworn in on Jan. 3.
She无毛视频檇 gained negative national attention about as fast as any newly elected public servant in history, I suppose.
It wasn无毛视频檛 like she didn无毛视频檛 enjoy that particular form of traitorous behavior going on around her.
In a newly discovered video she recorded two years ago she talks about taking over government buildings.
无毛视频淲e have a sea of people. If we shut down the streets. If we shut down everything. If we flood the Capitol Building. Flood all of the government buildings. Go inside. We own them. We own these buildings,无毛视频� she decreed.
She became an overnight political curiosity, with a boatload of Facebook and Twitter posts, and videos of her snarling the latest QAnon conspiracies that were rapidly being discovered.
There was her lengthy and bizarre Facebook post, in which she claimed that the 2018 California wildfires were caused by Jewish laser beams.
I无毛视频檓 sorry.
Did I just write that?
It seems fitting, then, that somebody who conjures up those kinds of outrageous statements would be a prime candidate to repeatedly tell 无毛视频淭he Big Lie.无毛视频�
While most of her Republican colleagues have avoided discussing Joe Biden无毛视频檚 ascendance to the presidency, Marjorie Taylor Greene has found new ways to try to force him out of it.
She无毛视频檚 filed articles of impeachment against him.
In case you hadn无毛视频檛 heard about that (and there无毛视频檚 no reason why you should), the day after Biden took the oath of office, Greene filed two articles of impeachment against him.
I can无毛视频檛, for the life of me, figure out what took her so long.
She无毛视频檚 slipping.
Since then, there无毛视频檚 been lots of pressure placed on her fellow Republicans to rein her in.
Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell even issued a terse assessment of Greene and her antics.
无毛视频淪omebody who无毛视频檚 suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.无毛视频檚 airplane is not living in reality,无毛视频� McConnell said, but without mentioning Greene by name.
He also diverted everybody away from The Big Lie, and in the direction of Greene无毛视频檚 supposed 无毛视频溛廾悠禈Loony Lies无毛视频� and conspiracy theories.无毛视频�
He claims they无毛视频檙e becoming a 无毛视频渃ancer for the Republican Party.无毛视频�
That doesn无毛视频檛 matter to the twice impeached, ex-president, who has expressed his support for Greene.
He无毛视频檚 all for somebody who lies as well as he does.
Especially since she is a devout member of the (fictional) Church of Trump.
Edward A. Owens is a multi-Emmy Award winner, former reporter, and anchor for Entertainment Tonight, and 40-year TV-news and newspaper veteran. E-mail him at freedoms@bellatlantic.net.