The Marjorie Taylor Greene Problem
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🗓️ 2 February 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Dubbed “the QAnon candidate,” Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has her Republican colleagues doing some major handwringing. But does her presence on Capitol Hill actually represent a war within the GOP or more of a polite disagreement?
Guest: Greg Bluestein, political reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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| 0:00.0 | When I hear the name Marjorie Taylor Green, I think of a series of disturbing superlatives. |
| 0:10.1 | She's the only known congressperson to believe in the Q&on conspiracy theory. |
| 0:14.6 | She's the congresswoman who filed articles of impeachment against Joe Biden, his first week in office. |
| 0:20.7 | And a few days back, she got into an |
| 0:23.2 | argument in the hallway with another freshman congresswoman, Corey Bush. Afterwards, Bush physically |
| 0:29.7 | moved her offices at the Capitol just to avoid Representative Green. But all this, it's not how |
| 0:36.9 | Greg Bluesteen knows Marjorie Taylor Green. |
| 0:39.5 | I mean, you got to remember, you know, when she first started running, she was running |
| 0:45.4 | for a suburban, a moderate suburban congressional district in Metro Atlanta. |
| 0:50.3 | And she wanted to meet with me. |
| 0:52.3 | Greg works in Atlanta. |
| 0:53.7 | He's a political reporter at the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the AJC. |
| 0:58.0 | And so we met at a little coffee shop not far from where I live. |
| 1:01.5 | And so I had a pleasant meeting with her, and I learned a lot about her background. |
| 1:05.0 | And then these videos came out. |
| 1:07.4 | These videos are the other thing I think about when I hear Marjorie Taylor Green's name. |
| 1:12.6 | There are hours of them. David, why are you supporting the red flag laws? National outlets have only |
| 1:18.4 | started surfacing them over the last couple of weeks, but Greg, he's known about the videos for months. |
| 1:24.1 | They show Marjorie Taylor Green's political life before she was elected to office. |
| 1:29.0 | In one, she seems to have traveled to the Capitol simply to follow a Parkland school shooting survivor around, to try to pick a fight with him. |
| 1:41.4 | Then there's a video of her attempting to tell Muslim congresswomen that they can't be sworn in using a Quran. |
| 1:48.5 | You know, we're going to explain about how you can't swear in on the Koran, and we're going to have the Bible and ask them if they would swear in on the Bible, that we really need them. |
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