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'Isn’t she amazing?' Biden trolls Marjorie Taylor Greene

President Joe Biden recently took a jab at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) during his speech at an annual retreat held in Baltimore, Md.

The president's comments came just one day after Greene's remarks asking Rebecca Kiessling, a Michigan mother who lost two of her children in 2020 due to drug-related deaths, if her children could still be alive “if our government would secure our southern border.”

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Dominion’s damning revelations underscore the 'full corruption of Fox News': former Reagan speechwriter

For many years, Mona Charen — a veteran conservative columnist who was a speechwriter for First Lady Nancy Reagan during the 1980s — has complained about what she views as a liberal bias in the mainstream media. But in an article published by The Bulwark on March 2, the Never Trumper’s primary target is not CNN, the Washington Post or the New York Times. It is Fox News, which, she argues, has "embarrassed" itself by shamelessly promoting "lies" and "fiction."

Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News has turned into a major scandal for the right-wing cable news outlet, which, in late 2020 and early 2021, promoted attorney Sidney Powell's false claim that Dominion's equipment was used to help now-President Joe Biden steal the presidential election from then-President Donald Trump. E-mails and text messages that Dominion has presented as evidence show Tucker Carlson and others at Fox News privately admitting that Powell's claim was total nonsense. Yet Fox News, according to Dominion, promoted Powell's debunked claim anyway.

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Has Rupert Murdoch already set up a fall guy for Dominion debacle?

Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch's testimony in Dominion Voting Systems' civil lawsuit revealed that the right-wing media mogul believed that many of his network's own hosts went off the rails with false election conspiracy theories.

The question now is what, if any, consequences will come from this revelation.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'firehose of lies' shredded by Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough blasted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) "firehose of falsehoods" as an intentional effort to destroy the truth as autocratic leaders have throughout history.

The Georgia Republican blamed President Joe Biden for the fatal overdoses of two Michigan men whose mother testified during a House hearing on fentanyl trafficking, but they both died in 2020 during the presidency of Donald Trump, and Greene's spokesman ripped off a profane tirade against a CNN fact checker who asked him about the discrepancy.

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'How confident your stupidity is': Lauren Boebert lampooned for posting crudely-cropped US map

United States Representative Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) attempted to be clever on Twitter early Wednesday evening but instead was met with derision and ridicule.

Boebert, an outspoken right-wing conservative, posted a picture of Earth containing only a crudely-cropped image of the lower forty-eight states surrounded by water along with a caption that reads: "map showing the only place my taxes should go."

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DeSantis’ censorship drive could backfire big time as it imperils Fox News — here's how

The state “where woke goes to die” may be equally inhospitable to right-wing media.

That’s according to Daily Beast columnist Anthony L. Fisher, who believes Fox News could become collateral damage of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ culture crusade.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene's obsession with culture wars reflects her 'insecurity' as a parent: former GOP congressman

Former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) tore into Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on MSNBC Wednesday, suggesting that her obsession with culture war issues around children is a sign of her own insecurity as a parent.

This comes as Greene, a far-right congresswoman known for embracing the QAnon conspiracy theory, continues to push her idea of a second secession crisis, or "national divorce," where Republican-controlled states could break off and create their own nation that, in her own words, would be a "safe space" from the Left.

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Kari Lake takes election 'fraud' case to the Arizona Supreme Court: report

Failed Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake ran as a Donald Trump acolyte, and she’s now taking the former president's election fraud allegations playbook all the way to the Arizona Supreme Court, The Associated Press reports.

Nearly four months after losing her bid for the state’s highest office to Democrat Katie Hobbs in a tight race, Lake is asking the state’s Supreme Court to review the allegations of fraud earlier deemed without merit by lower courts.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene and Mike Lee spread anti-Ukraine disinformation with edited video

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) are actively spreading anti-Ukraine disinformation, posting to Twitter a deceptively-edited video of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which they falsely claim means the Ukrainian President wants America's "sons and daughters" to die defending Ukraine.

Senator Lee complained his personal Twitter account was suspended at some point after he retweeted the video. It was recently restored and his post with the deceptively-edited video has not been removed.

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Republicans are 'emboldened' because there has been no accountability for J6: ex-White House lawyer

Lawmakers who participated in the Jan. 6 attacks and the planning of the attack on the Capitol have never been held accountable for their involvement. It's something that former acting solicitor general Neal Katyal says has "emboldened" them.

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace played a clip of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) ranting to Gabriel Sterling, the COO of the Georgia Secretary of State, that the 2020 election was fake, Donald Trump won and that thousands of dead people voted. The facts have been proven over and over again. The special grand jury in Georgia went so far as to say that the fraud Greene claimed wasn't true. The new grand jury that will begin this month will have an opportunity to confirm the findings.

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Top Kevin McCarthy aide met with mother of late Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt: report

A senior aide to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) recently met with the mother of the late Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt, whose death at the hands of a Capitol Police officer has made her a martyr among election-denying Trump supporters.

CBS News reports that the staffer this week met with Micki Witthoeft outside of McCarthy's office, which Witthoeft later referenced when she spoke outside of a protest rally outside of a jail where many Capitol riot detainees are being held.

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Furious Ted Cruz shouts at Merrick Garland as he erupts over Kavanaugh protests

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) began shouting at Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday during a Senate Oversight hearing. Among the things Cruz was angry about was that the Department of Justice was not in the process of prosecuting protesters who went to Brett Kavanaugh's home and posted information about the Supreme Court justice's location.

"As you know, those threats finally materialized with Nicholas Russki, a 26-year-old man from California who traveled across the country, was arrested outside the home of Justice [Brett] Kavanaugh, armed with a handgun, a knife, and burglary tools," said Cruz. "He said that he came there to kill Justice Kavanaugh because he was enraged by the leaked opinion. Now of course you are prosecuting that individual for attempted murder. But did you bring even a single case to enforce this law, or did the Department of Justice decided this law doesn't apply it if it is harassing justices' opinions that we don't like?"

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Marjorie Taylor Greene spokesman hits CNN fact checker with foul-mouthed tirade

A spokesman for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) offered a profane response when asked to comment on a misleading claim the congresswoman made online.

Greene blamed President Joe Biden's policies for the deaths of two young men from Michigan whose mother testified Tuesday before the House Homeland Security Committee, although they each overdosed in 2020 while Donald Trump was president.

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