The Georgia Republican is fast falling out of favor for her opposition to the Ukraine aid bill.

The Georgia Republican is fast falling out of favor for her opposition to the Ukraine aid bill.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s failed fight to end aid to Ukraine, and her sort-of-serious crusade against House Speaker Mike Johnson, has cost her the support of right-wing media.

The Sunday front page of the New York Post, owned by the conservative Murdoch family, was the latest outlet to attack Greene, invoking the “Moscow Marjorie” nickname coined by former representative Ken Buck.

Fox News, another arm of the Murdoch media empire, had already taken aim at the Georgia Republican last week, with columnist Liz Peek calling her an “idiot” and saying she needs to “turn all that bombastic self-serving showmanship and drama queen energy on Democrats.” This follows an editorial last month from The Wall Street Journal, also in the Murdoch portfolio, that called Greene “Rep. Mayhem Taylor Greene” and accused her and her allies of being “most interested in TV hits and internet donors.”

Even a non-Murdoch outlet is on the attack, as conservative Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Debra Saunders demanded to know “who put Marjorie Taylor Greene in charge?”

  • @RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    53•7 months ago

    Liz Peek calling her an “idiot” and saying she needs to “turn all that bombastic self-serving showmanship and drama queen energy on Democrats.”

    Liz Peek thinking she’s better than MTG, yet playing the same game.

    • @octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
      35•7 months ago

      I don’t care who it is or what their motives are. She’s finally getting called out for her bullshit from folks she’s supposedly on the “same side” with?

      I can’t wait until she runs for re-election.

      • @Spitzspot
        22•7 months ago

        She is currently running for re-election.

          • @RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
            25•7 months ago

            Don’t get your hopes too high. I’ve lived in GA and frequently drove through her district. There’s jack shit out there. No major businesses, no public services, no food outside of Subways, Bojangles, and McDonald’s. It’s mostly farmland with some really small towns filled with the kind of people who would vote for MTG. They’re not at all informed and really don’t care about anything more than “owning the libs.”

            • @octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
              4•7 months ago

              Fair point, but I’m still going to hope. Sounds like Boebert is never coming back, 2/2 would be a nice win.

            • @grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4•7 months ago

              To be fair, some of it is Chattanooga suburbs, there are the carpet manufacturers in Dalton, and that Buc-ee’s opened a few years ago (that counts as fine dining, right?).

        • @disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
          13•7 months ago

          She’s running without a republican challenger. She won the last election 66% to 35%. Georgia’s 14th district hasn’t voted blue since its gerrymandered inception. I wouldn’t hold my breath.