On Friday, Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene descended into an extended Twitter tirade, accusing the media of rubbing “fake smears across my face” for reporting on her speech at a white nationalist convention last week.
In her rant, the controversial lawmaker also slammed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a “dictator” and attacked comedian Jimmy Kimmel, Joy Behar and Howard Stern, all while declaring “I follow Christ.”
Greene claimed that the speech she gave at the America First convention, whose organizer boasted about the superiority of white Americans and praised Vladimir Putin, was similar to all of the speeches she gives and did not attack a particular identity or ideology.
“I gave the same consistent America First message at every event to everyone regardless of their identity or ideology,” she wrote. “I said nothing wrong and have always denounced racism and anti-semitism, always will. Evil hateful statements are not America First and don’t belong,” Taylor Greene claimed people are trying to “cancel” her and then lashed out at the press for reporting on it.
“I follow Christ and he spoke to all,” she wrote before adding, “the media went into hyper mode to rub more fake smears across my face with their lies in the headlines and truth in the last paragraph tactics, but never even asked my district’s GOP chair for a comment. They don’t care what people think, they want to control what they think.”
She accused the press of “running around the Capitol all day hearing my every word and analyzing every syllable in my speeches, they know more than anyone I’m not all the ‘isms of hate they have worked so hard to try to make the public believe.”
“Their hypocrisy is screaming,” she added.
Check her Twitter thread below:
2. I gave the same consistent America First message at every event to everyone regardless of their identity or ideology.
I said nothing wrong and have always denounced racism and anti-semitism, always will.
Evil hateful statements are not America First and don’t belong.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) March 4, 2022
4. The media went into hyper mode to rub more fake smears across my face with their lies in the headlines and truth in the last paragraph tactics, but never even asked my district’s GOP chair for a comment.
They don’t care what people think, they want to control what they think. pic.twitter.com/taJR5aelYh
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) March 4, 2022
6. While the press run around the Capitol all day hearing my every word and analyzing every syllable in my speeches, they know more than anyone I’m not all the ‘isms of hate they have worked so hard to try to make the public believe.
Their hypocrisy is screaming.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) March 4, 2022
8. This behavior is beyond the pale, but you never see the rabid fake news media hold them accountable until the end of time like they do with Republicans.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) March 4, 2022
10. When you hurt people, it’s right to apologize.
You have to accept responsibility when you do wrong.
That’s what I’ve done in the past and what every mature adult should do.
Yet the left and some on the right apply a double standard.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) March 4, 2022
12. Most importantly, we all must unify to return to policies that strengthen America and remove our dependence on foreign countries that want to defeat us.
Washington insiders and media need to learn an important lesson.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) March 4, 2022
13. Stop acting like a bunch of high schoolers creating drama and spreading gossip that real Americans care nothing about.
And learn to take the crisis we are in seriously for all of our sakes.
Our future is at stake, and we are all in the same boat.
It’s time to row together.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) March 4, 2022
