Why are mainstream news orgs trying to rehabilitate her image so badly?
this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2025
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It is a permission structure for MAGAs to recognize trump as one with the elites they love to hate. I think it's fine, for now to beat the immense cognitive dissonance of recognizing that you were completely wrong.
It's probably good overall. It was his cult of personality anyway, so them dethroning him will only make the party eat itself faster.
They aren't that I have seen, do you have examples? She was getting a lot of attention for how the Epstein saga played out in Congress, and now is the highest profile example of a MAGA true believer who is willing to talk publicly about being driven out of the cult. There's perhaps a tendency currently to focus on these recent events more than her history as a piece of shit, but I've yet to see any articles that ignore who and how she is.
Yes, go read the author defending her in the comments section of the article in question that also does in fact try to position her as a character evolving toward respectability
To me it’s just a cheap ploy to capitalize on someone they view as a traitor to maga. It is another appeal to the center right
I read about a half dozen of the authors comments and I'm not seeing it? They seem to be polite and diplomatic but the closest thing to defending her is providing details about the "Jewish space lasers" incident.
Is she not a character making a play for respectability? I don't understand how reporters pointing that out is an issue, it is factually what is happening. I agree she isn't a respectable person and never will be, but it doesn't change what is currently going on with her.
I also don't understand how it is a cheap ploy for the news media to cover her defection/excommunication. That seems inherently newsworthy to me, I think it would be weird if they didn't cover it and ignored the situation.
Ignore what? Cover what situation? The ongoing crisis between MTG and maga/trump? That isn’t a real situation and it was covered on the spot because it was a tweet some time ago followed by MTG doing press runs.
What’s being covered are conjured media stories simply caring about her for no reason that conclude she is being rehabilitated in some manner.
This is manufactured propaganda to keep her in the spotlight and rehab her image in what I can only imagine is a stupid attempt to fuel anti trumpism
I don't think I'm following. Why do you think MTG is faking it? Who do you think is manufacturing anti-Trump propaganda?
She’s a bare naked political opportunist who has been doing a continuous press tour about being betrayed by maga and having her life endangered by Trump.
She has dodged all questions about her complicity, no reporters have meaningfully pushed her on anything (though we may have different standards for what constitutes good journalism), and we see nyt using and concluding with mtg’s own premise of evolving toward respectability
They, nyt and cbs are egregious examples, are creating the very appearance of respectability she is probably not only paying to create but also serves as another avenue to drive negative attention toward maga and Trump
We don't have to like or support her to enjoy the cracks appearing in the MAGA camp.
Only the naive would believe this story from MTG.
After the hearing, Greene held a news conference at which she threatened to identify some of the men who had abused the women... According to Greene, Trump replied, “My friends will get hurt.”
Trump admits his friends are pedophiles and/or sex traffickers.
Greene admits she was surrounded by molester and did nothing
I think the word she's searching for is stupid.
Hard to believe she didn't think the right wing extremists wouldn't eventually turn on woman who wasn't sufficiently extremist. Then again, that explains most women in MAGA, so maybe.
And thus the rehabilitation of her image in lib media begins. She's still a racist conspiracy-believing hateful piece of shit. Don't let her off the hook for any of her bullshit beliefs.
Well yes, but you were also fucking evil.
Naïve = Stupid
She actually believed trump wasn’t a complete cesspit fire of demented rapeyness. Despite all the previous, current, and future evidence.
No one believes this.
"Grifter Who Was Grifted Pivots from Original Grift to New Grift"
This article brought to you by the Pants-Shittingly Stupid Individuals Coalition.
So, what's her next move, then? It's not like she's going to move to the left.
I assume she's going to bide her time, wait until Taco flames out/passes away, and then, when there is a huge influx of "sudden independents" that never heard of this Taco guy and/or the Republican Party, that's when she starts mounting some new astroturfed bullshit like the teabagger scam. It's weird how all those teabaggers (later, renamed "Tea Party") voted Republican, LOL, and the corporate media pretended to be baffled by this newfound "movement" that was just an obviously astroturfed Republican thing and you could discover this bit of information with about 30 seconds of looking into it.
Or, she'll just bide her time and find some way to get on the Wingnut Welfare circuit - see Regnery, Heritage, Coors, Koch, ALEC, (or, these days, just get the money from Russia) etc...there is just huge gobs of cash to be made for people with no morals or principles to be handed by such nefarious groups.
The conservatives are always projecting about "Soros", but the reality is that there is nothing like this apparatus on the left...
Nah, you were evil and stupid and still are.
MTG deserves no kudos... She's complicit, has a history of promoting hate, and has never impressed me with either her wisdom or intelligence. Fuck off.
The common thread here is that she's still loud.
I thought Hitler only targeted the Jews and the darkies, not the good Ole boys I represent? Also telling ME, a roider with a clit bigger than most republican men's dicks to get back into the kitchen?
Naw. Fuck that fam. I is out.
- MTG
Also, to AOC.
MTG: How you doing?
AOC: Gross. 🤮