Stephen Colbert made it clear on Thursday night that he didn’t want to spend most of his time Late show monologue about QAnon Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene. But he didn’t really feel like he had a choice.
After touching the absurd little 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 said ‘Heil “Neighbor,” Marjorie waves. Taylor Greene. “
Colbert spent the next few minutes tearing up the speech Greene gave to her colleagues before the House voted to take her commission from her. In response to her sudden charge of “dangerous” misinformation, he said, “You’re right, it’s dangerous to mix a truth like you say ‘I used to believe in QAnon’ and you lie like ‘Now do I don’t anymore. ”
Nor was the host impressed by Greene’s claim that “9/11 happened,” adding, “I believe we as a nation have promised always remember that it happened. What does your bumper sticker say: ‘9/11. Oops, I forgot? ”
‘This is the modern GOP. They want credit for acknowledging reality, ” Colbert said, joking that President Ronald Reagan would have been commended with those standards for stating, “ Mr. Gorbachev, this is a wall! “
Above all, though, the host was disgusted by Greene’s excuse that her racist, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic conspiracy nonsense, much of which she posted online over the past two years, was just “words from the past.”
“All words are words from the past!” Colbert exclaimed. ‘These words I’m saying now? They are in the past, he said, seconds ago! And what do you mean since you were elected to Congress? That was less than three months ago! “
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