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?”
You guys did, your entire right-wing mediasphere and political manipulation machine. Funny try to get out of it, you conceived and birthed that baby, you’re stuck with her now.
All that said: I wonder how much misogyny is a factor here. It seems like they’re getting rid of their firebrand women a helluva lot faster than they’re getting rid of their firebrand men.
Edit: additional thought: they’re turning against her (and calling her Moscow Marge) for her position on Ukraine aid. But they’ve been anti-Ukraine-aid for a while, following orders from Moscow. Is this just a ploy to make Republicans less distasteful in the fall elections, or is there some geopolitical calculus the Kochs and their ilk are seeing?
Yeah, the geopolitical calculus of “Americans are dumb and have the memory of a goldfish, if we look hard on Russia now they’ll remember it for the election.” I don’t think there’s anything beyond that.
It is that this shit ain’t working.
Media and people try very hard but take a look, anyone supporting the Trump bs moscow adjacent shit doesn’t do well in polls Americans don’t like it. Best get on the right side quick. I wonder if Gaetz will pivot or die
IRT your edit, I don’t see this being a way that they thought about it. This is more them feeling silly now that the stupid is so out of the bag. They wanted all this hate energy, but with the ability to control it themselves. They’ve lost control, so the elite are now working to put control back into place.
MTG was never a FOX favorite. They tend to prefer the more domesticated breed of business conservatives.