Marjorie Taylor Greene’s 60 Minutes interview was an utter travesty

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Last night, the venerable CBS news program 60 Minutes featured Lesley Stahl’s interview with Marjorie Taylor Greene. Though Stahl tsk-tsked here and there, and called Greene “glib,” the only direct pushback came when Greene asserted that she believed, as she’s repeatedly stated, that Democrats are pedophiles. There was a clip from Trump’s recent Waco rally, where he declared he would “fight like hell” for Greene if she ran for the Senate Greene’s outrageous stance against the US involvement in Ukraine, one of her central shouting points, was only mentioned in a P.S, a three minute online 60 Minutes addendum to the interview, likely not seen by the majority of the show’s core viewers. The poised, calm woman sitting opposite Lesley Stahl was a stark contrast to the nasty heckler who screamed, “Liar!” during President Biden’s State of the Union address, who “liked” an online post suggesting Nancy Pelosi be murdered.