Sunday’s 60 Minutes kicked off with Lesley Stahl’s 13-minute interview with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who’s quitting in January. CBS performed up the anti-Trump angle, as anticipated:
Marjorie Taylor Greene says Republicans “terrified to step out of line” relating to Trump
Naturally, Stahl was desirous to know what nasty issues Republican members of Congress say about Trump behind his again. However probably the most amusing half got here when Stahl attacked Greene over her lack of civility, an attention-grabbing take coming from nasty CBS. It is disorienting to listen to Greene mocking different Republicans who began “kissing his ass” when Trump secured the GOP nomination in 2024.
Stahl proclaimed: “Greene has constructed her status on feisty fight and inflammatory insults, like calling President Joe Biden a “liar” throughout the 2023 State of the Union. It has been 5 years of just about fixed drama, together with her including gas to the nation’s lack of civility.”
Wait. So from 2016 ahead, the media elites satisfied themselves that all of them simply should name Trump a “liar” on the entrance pages and the community newscasts. However when a Republican yells it at Biden, it’s “inflammatory”?
Stahl famous that Greene apologized for contributing to poisonous speak in an interview on CNN, however “it grew to become clear to us that she hasn’t solely misplaced her urge for food for fight.” So Stahl launched at her:
GREENE: It’s probably the most poisonous political tradition and it’s not serving to the American individuals.
STAHL: However, you contributed to that! You! You have been on the market pounding, insulting individuals.
GREENE: Lesley, you’ve contributed to it as effectively together with your —
STAHL: Me?
GREENE: Sure, you’re accusatory, similar to you probably did simply then.
STAHL: I do know you’re accusing me, however I’m smiling —
GREENE: You’re accusing me!
STAHL: I’m accusing you!
GREENE: However we don’t need to accuse each other.
STAHL: I would like you to reply to what you might have finished when it comes to insulting individuals, yelling at individuals, after which saying —
GREENE: I’d like so that you can reply for that. No, you’ll be able to reply for that.
STAHL: I don’t insult individuals.
GREENE: You do in the way in which you query. And also you’re accusing me proper now.
For us, Stahl is most infamous for telling Donald Trump you’ll be able to’t affirm that Hunter Biden’s laptop computer was actual, which wasn’t a lot an insult as a preposterous assertion. In our recordsdata, now we have extra examples of Stahl gushing over Jimmy Carter or Nancy Pelosi or different Democrats. However her questions may be insulting, like asking the Israeli ex-hostage in April a Hamas-sympathetic query: “Do you suppose they starved you or they only didn’t have meals?”
We might cite this Stahl query to the Trump household on 60 Minutes simply days after Trump received in 2016: “Lots of people are afraid. They’re actually afraid. African Individuals suppose there’s a goal on their again. Muslims are terrified...Do any of you need to say something about this worry that’s on the market?”
However Greene was most likely considering of when Stahl interviewed her in 2023, when she introduced a litany of insults — however from different individuals. “We regarded up some phrases which have been mentioned about you,” Stahl knowledgeable her. Among the many record of phrases have been apparently “loopy,” “Q-clown,” “looney tune,” “unhinged,” and “moron.” Later, Stahl identified how “individuals say” Greene was “Trump in excessive heels.”
Stahl additionally insulted Greene when she gave a typical Republican reply on the finances, when she mentioned Washington does not have a tax-revenue drawback, it has a spending drawback. Stahl shot again: “You realize one thing, that is glib. That is glib. What does that imply? The 2 sides have to return collectively and hammer it out.” (Translation: Increase taxes.)
And Stahl misplaced her thoughts again then when Greene mentioned the Democrats have been the “social gathering of pedophiles.” So once more, let’s level out that lately, leftists continually argue that President Trump is a pedophile (over the Epstein scandal), however Stahl hasn’t freaked out over that in any respect. All of the “reality checking” goes a method, similar to all of the “civility checking” does.
PS: Stahl had a barely fraught dialog with former community correspondent Jeff Greenfield over the 2023 MTG interview right here.
