Stephen Colbert made it clear Thursday night that he really didn’t want to spend most of his time Late Show monologue talking about QAnon Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. But I didn’t really feel like I had a choice.
After touching on the absurdly small letter Donald Trump sent to the Screen Actors Guild earlier in the day, the host said, “Speaking of acting, I can’t wait to talk about the Georgia representative and the woman who greets.” Heil, neighbor, “Marjorie Taylor Greene.”
Colbert spent the next few minutes tearing up the speech Greene gave to his colleagues before the House voted to remove her from committee duties. In response to his sudden denunciation of “dangerous” misinformation, he said, “You’re right, it’s dangerous to mix a truth, as if you were saying ‘I believed in QAnon’ and lied, such as ‘Now no more.’
Nor was the host impressed with Greene’s statement that “it happened on September 11,” adding, “I think we, as a nation, promised always remember what happened. What the bumper sticker says: 9/11. Wow, did I forget that? »
“This is the modern GOP. They want credit for acknowledging reality, “Colbert said, joking that with such rules President Ronald Reagan would have been praised for declaring,” Mr. Gorbachev, this is a wall! ”
But more than anything, the host was disgusted by Greene’s excuse that his nonsensical racist, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic conspiracy, much of which he posted online over the past two years, was merely “words of the past.”
“All words are words of the past!” Colbert exclaimed. “Those words I say right now? They are already according to the past, he said. And what do you mean, since you were elected to Congress? That’s less than three months ago! ”
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