Hiding the gullible Greene and brainless Boebert boneheads, GOP pushes out higher IQ members on mainstream TV
Marjorie Taylor Greene made the news (temporarily pulling ahead of her estranged BFF Lauren Boebert in their media spotlight hogging competition) with her tweet suggesting people try to shoot down the Chinese spyloon:
A few days ago Boebert also demonstrated the obsession with guns among some Republicans:
Currently you can tell who the most gun obsessed by seeing who is wearing these assault rife pins:
EXCERPT: Awakening from a traditional media hibernation, House Republicans have begun to blitz the airwaves they previously shunned with brushoffs about the “lamestream media.”
On any given day now, the new GOP majority posts a half-dozen or more members on CNN and MSNBC — two networks that increasingly became no-go zones for conservative lawmakers in the Trumpian era of “fake news” attacks. Republicans have appeared on streaming network news shows online and done interviews on those nightly news shows for cable.
From an MSNBC article:
About a week ago, Republican Rep. Scott Perry sat down with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos and expressed confusion about the White House’s line on the debt ceiling. “I don’t know why President Biden says he’s not going to negotiate,” the chair of the far-right House Freedom Caucus said.
Exactly seven days later, Republican Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska — known as a far more pragmatic lawmaker than his Freedom Caucus colleague — appeared on the same Sunday show and said largely the same thing.
This is just in from NBC News:
Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, on Sunday criticized the Biden administration over its timing in taking down the Chinese surveillance balloon off the Carolina coast.
“The president taking it down over the Atlantic is sort of like tackling the quarterback after the game is over,” Turner said in an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.” “This should never have been allowed to enter the United States and it never should have been allowed to complete its mission.”
saw one or two other GOP members of the House interviewed on an MSNBC show but can't find their names.
Here's another example:
Here are those Republicans on non-right-wing media I easily found form the past week:
- Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) was on Meet the Press for the first time in four years. He is either toning his act down of taking a lot of Valium and he's put aside the screaming banshee version of himself.
- ABC’s “This Week” and “Fox News Sunday” heard from a pair of prominent House Republicans, Reps. Michael R. Turner (Ohio) and Michael McCaul (Tex.).
- CBS’s “Face the Nation,” had House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)
- Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), newly empowered as the chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, has his pick of prime opportunities every day, particularly on Sundays. From: Reference.
- Rep. Scott Perry
- Rep. Don Bacon
- Rep. Mike Turner
- Sen. Marco Rubio
I am curious whether there has been a high level decision to rehabilitate the image of House GOP members among people who don't watch Fox News or NewMax exclusively.
Perhaps the final straws breaking the GOP's back were the media slavering to get hallway interviews with George Santos where came across like an arrogant idiot...
... and the statements and behavior by their two biggest stars, Greene and Boebert. The media has a new version of the "if it bleeds, it leads" saying referring to local news:
If it bleeds bullshit bloviating babble it leads.
It seems that a group of sane strategic GOP leaders are trying to convince viewers of the mainstream media that these people are on the fringe by putting their higher IQ and reasonable sounding House members on shows viewed by people whose votes may actually swing critical elections.
The risk to them of course to having these Republicans on stations that aren't firmly in the bag with the right-wing is that they will be subjected to questions that may range from mildly critical to downright provocative making them look like liars, fools, or both.
Whether they can counter moronic statements like this from Marjorie Moron Greene who doesn't understand that $5 billion is the same as $5000 million and would build and fund many elementary schools remains to be seen:
At the risk of piling on, I must note that even Fox News covered this Santos story:
Not to belabor McCarthy's "oh shit what did I do" thoughts about not booting Santos out when he could when all the lies were revealed, and my own schadenfreude at following the Santos saga, but I bet McCarthy was at least happy he could score a few points by having an openly gay member of his caucus. A "good gay" like Pete Buttigieg rather than one who likes to dress in drag but is also a predatory sexually harassing gay.
There hopefully are enough voters in the country who are truly independent and thoughtful in making decisions about who they want to elect for national office to realize that even the more rational sounding Republicans are selling them a bill of goods.
These Republican strategists know that in order to win elections even with all the impediments the GOP run states have put in place to prevent fair voting the have to get people who aren't members of the MAGA cult (like those shown below) to vote for Republicans.
Below: This is my best, although perhaps not my last, attempt at coming up with something new that MAGA can stand for. Please don't tell me how lame it is unless you can come up with something better.
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