Marjorie Taylor Greene has a new spin on the Jewish space lasers remark

[DonViejo]

Jacob Kornbluh March 18, 2021

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was stripped of her House committee assignments for antisemitic and other incendiary comments, said in an interview with an Orthodox weekly magazine published on Wednesday that “it really hurts” to be called an antisemite and racist. Greene visited Orthodox areas of Brooklyn and Long Island on Monday in a tour organized by Chovevei Zion, an Orthodox conservative group based in Brooklyn.

In an an interview with Ami Magazine following the visit, the Georgia Republican said she felt lucky to be invited by the group’s leaders, Nachman Mostofsky and Yechezkel Moskowitz, “because it really hurts to be called ‘antisemite’ or racist.’ No one has ever called me that before in my life until the left-wing media decided to attack me.”

Greene’s embrace of QAnon conspiracy theories and controversial comments – including suggesting that a Jewish-funded space laser had sparked wildfires in California in 2018 – triggered backlash from the Jewish community and led the Democrat-controlled House, with the support of 11 Republican members, to take the rare step of removing her from Congressional committees last month.

In the print-only interview, Greene maintained that she never used the term “Jewish space lasers” in the recently uncovered Facebook post that was published by Media Matters. But she admitted that she did mention the Rothschild family “were either investors or owners of the company,” which is a longstanding antisemitic conspiracy theory. “I didn’t even know and didn’t find out until recently that the Rothschilds were Jewish,” she said.

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[gratuitous]

1. So now her excuse is . . .

She's too ignorant to be a bigot.

[pandr32]

9. Seems so

She proves every single time she opens her mouth why she should not be in Congress.

[FoxNewsSucks]

2. Awwww, poor baby,

If it hurts to be called "antisemite" and "racist", maybe she should consider not being an antisemite, stop being racist, and avoid saying antisemitic racist things.

I'm guessing that the reason no one called her those things before is that everyone she associated with before are equally antisemitic and racist.

[LakeArenal]

3. Then she's an uninformed, incompetent politician

Who just happens to be a treasonous racist.

[Solly Mack]

4. Ignorance and bigotry walk hand in hand.

[Claire Oh Nette]

5. "I didn't even know and didn't find out until recently that the Rothschilds were Jewish," she said.

This may be true. She's an ignoramus as well as a bigot. More evidence that she is grossly uneducated, narrowminded, provincial, uniformed, and unqualified to hold the position.
Guessing no one called her an anti-semite before only because no one in earshot was Jewish.

It hurts to be called out for what I am. Isn't that what she's saying? It hurts that her true self has been exposed?

[brush]

6. Remember trump saying he loves the poorly educated?

She's a prime example. How does someone with such little knowledge about things get to Congress?

[CurtEastPoint]

7. She was elected by dumbasses equal to her intelligence level or lower.

[NoMoreRepugs]

8. The Goobers n Gomers that vote for her are

truly ignorant. Amazing they can tie their own shoes.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. She had no opponent in the race.

In fact, she did not even live in the district she ran in.

Hopefully, she will be easy to pick off next year.

[caraher]

12. She also ran unopposed in the general election

Probably would have won anyway, but a contested general election may have exposed her ignorance in ways even Republicans would object to.

[ret5hd]

10. She is so totally ignorant of her own society, so utterly blind to the world at large...

so completely uninformed of history, so thoroughly incurious of culture...

yet considers herself qualified to be in a leadership position of one of the superpowers of the world!?!?!?!?

My f'n gawd...Running a bodega in a mid-sized city requires more intellect than you have!!! You are not qualified for ANY activity that requires interacting with any person not from your exact blond-hair/blue-eye/privileged/isolated/shallow/sheltered background!You are impossibly lost in a rich, cultured, pluralistic world!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. LOL

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