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What Does the Fox Say?

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Now that Marjorie Taylor Greene has won the Republican Primary for Georgia's 14th Congressional District, it's time for conservative outlets to go to work softening her image. Thanks to her long history of posting racist, antisemitic, and Islamophobic videos on Facebook, there's certainly a lot of work to do. Her candidacy has also been highlighted for her support of the outrageously ridiculous QAnon conspiracy theory.  So how does a network go about rewriting the truth? Here's a screen shot of a recent article on Fox News: Link:  Fox News on Marjorie Greene Here Greene is taking a page out of the Trump handbook and blaming the widespread reporting on her videos supporting QAnon on the "left-leaning media." Instead she insists that her time spent sharing Q conspiracy theories was just passing curiosity and that she's since moved on. Meanwhile... Over on CNN, Jake Tapper airs a segment that I am quite sure he thinks is a scathing rebuke of the candidate:  L...