Stephen Colbert made it clear on Thursday night that he really didn’t want to spend most of his Late Show monologue talking about QAnon Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. But he didn’t really feel he had a choice.
After touching the absurdly petty letter that Donald Trump sent to the Screen Actors Guild earlier in the day, the presenter said: “Speaking of acting, I can’t wait to talk about the Georgia representative and the woman waving ‘Heil, neighbor’, Marjorie Taylor Greene. “
Colbert spent the next few minutes tearing up Greene’s speech to his colleagues before the House voted to remove it from its committee duties. In response to the sudden denunciation of “dangerous” misinformation, he said: “You are right, it is dangerous to mix up a truth, like you saying ‘I used to believe in QAnon’ and you lying, like ‘Now not anymore.'”
The host was also unimpressed by Greene’s claim that “9/11 happened”, adding: “I believe that we, as a nation, promise always remember that it happened. What’s your bumper sticker, ‘September 11th Oops, I forgot? ‘”
“This is the modern GOP. They want credit for recognizing reality, ”said Colbert, joking that, with these standards, President Ronald Reagan would have been praised for declaring,“ Mr. Gorbachev, this is a wall! “
But most of all, the hostess was disgusted by Greene’s excuse that her absurd, racist, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic conspiracy, many of which she posted online in the past two years, were just “words from the past”.
“All words are words from the past!” Colbert exclaimed. “Those words that 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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