The Georgia Republican is fast falling out of favor for her opposition to the Ukraine aid bill.

The Georgia Republican is fast falling out of favor for her opposition to the Ukraine aid bill.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greeneā€™s failed fight to end aid to Ukraine, and herĀ sort-of-serious crusadeĀ against House Speaker Mike Johnson, has cost her the support of right-wing media.

The Sunday front page of the New York Post, owned by the conservative Murdoch family, was the latest outlet toĀ attackĀ Greene, invoking the ā€œMoscow Marjorieā€ nicknameĀ coinedĀ by former representative Ken Buck.

Fox News, another arm of the Murdoch media empire, had alreadyĀ taken aimĀ at the Georgia Republican last week, with columnist Liz PeekĀ callingĀ her an ā€œidiotā€ and saying she needs to ā€œturn all that bombastic self-serving showmanship and drama queen energy on Democrats.ā€ This follows an editorial last month from The Wall Street Journal, also in the Murdoch portfolio, that called Greene ā€œRep. Mayhem Taylor Greeneā€ and accused her and her allies of being ā€œmost interested in TV hits and internet donors.ā€

Even a non-Murdoch outlet is on the attack, as conservative Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Debra SaundersĀ demandedĀ to know ā€œwho put Marjorie Taylor Greene in charge?ā€

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
    131Ā·
    7 months ago

    FOX is in deep with the Pentagon and has been since its inception. So Iā€™m not shocked to see them find issue with MTG for failing to be hawkish enough (on Russia). But I think TNR underestimates how much Murdoch This and Murdoch That is, itself, falling out of favor with mainstream conservatives.

    We played this game back in 2008, when the Murdoch Press went hard in the paint for Rudy Giuliani and he couldnā€™t break double digits in his ā€œstrongā€ state of Florida. Same thing happened to Marco Rubio and Ron DeSantis and Nicki Hailey.

    Wingers love FOX when its slinging the red meat - criminal drug using migrant caravans and hordes of anti-semitic Columbia students and black teenager shoplifting rampage - but they fall out fast when Greg Gutfeld and Dana Perino arenā€™t screaming about how Woke Swifties Are Ruining Football.

    How about how all of your goddamn brain rotting anti-reality ā€œnewsā€ is coming from ONE GODDAMN ASSHOLE.

    The QAnon Crowd has largely walked away from FOX and moved on to harder stuff - OAN, Alex Jones, 4chan/Truth Social, etc. Go check out ā€œQAnon Anonymousā€, a great source for monitoring and cataloguing the sheer depth of the crazy going on in the danker corners of the internet.

    FOX has an average audience measured in the 1-2 million views. Compare that to Joe Roganā€™s podcast, which regularly hits above the 10M listener mark.