What Does the Fox Say?

GOP Candidate Marjorie Greene

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: 

Link: Tapper excoriates Greene

One has to wonder though, who is this video really for? If he's trying to actually change the mind of Greene supporters, I'm not sure the 'call your baby ugly' approach is really going to be effective. If anything, this type of attack is just going to further cement support among those who may have questioned her views but were leaning toward supporting her anyway. Nobody likes someone else to make them fell dumb for their opinions (one need only look at all the people who took on the deplorable mantle to see that).

Unfortunately, I don't think Tapper is actually trying to change any opinions and is instead catering to a core demographic of his audience: liberals angry at Republican wackos. 

One of these things is not like the other

Two news outlets, two drastically different takes on the same person. Personally I think Marjorie Taylor Greene is a bigot who believes in wildly stupid conspiracy theories, but the two sources above show how single source media consumption can lead to drastically different and deeply entrenched views.

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