At the same time House Republicans were trying to figure out what to do about QAnon Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the country music community was grappling with how to hold one of their biggest stars accountable for using the N-word. In the span of 24 hours, the country music genre became a mirror for the societal tensions our country has been trying to navigate.
Morgan Wallen was infamously caught on tape using an abhorrent racial slur. It was just four months after Wallen was mired in another controversy when NBC s Saturday Night Live rescinded his invitation to perform because he violated COVID safety protocols. After embarking on an image rehabilitation tour, he was invited back and appeared on the show in December, even participating in a skit poking fun at the entire situation.
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Freshman members of the minority party in the House seldom get much attention, so if notoriety is the goal, Georgia Rep.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has had a heck of a week.
Yes, she was roundly denounced by leading senators of her own party, including Senate Republican Leader
Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who likened her to a “cancer on the Republican party” and denounced her “loony lies and conspiracy theories.”
And, yes, House Republican Leader
Rachel Maddow remarks that House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy failed his caucus when he accepted Marjorie Taylor Greene's denials at face value and repeated them without checking, depriving his colleagues of the opportunity to distance themselves from her reprehensible ideas.
The House voted on Thursday to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her two committee assignments over her past endorsements of violence and promotion of conspiracy theories.
With a bipartisan vote of 230-199, 11 Republicans joined with Democrats to oust Greene from the Committee on Education and Labor and the House Budget Committee, Fox News report.
House Republicans appointed Marjorie Taylor Greene to both panels last month after the Georgia freshman was sworn into Congress.
Democrats said they were forced to take action to uphold the standards of decency in Congress as GOP leadership earlier refused to penalize Marjorie Taylor Greene for the incendiary remarks she made before she was elected last November.