Deranged Marjorie Taylor Greene Threatens PBS After They “Criticize” Elon Musk

Like most people and groups across the globe, PBS was dumbfounded by Elon Musk’s “weird hand gesture” during his speech following Trump’s inauguration. PBS got on social media to report that the gesture “looked a lot” like a fascist salute, which wasn’t an incorrect statement and they didn’t say that it was intentional. But the post caught Marjorie Taylor Greene’s attention, and now she’s threatening to cut PBS’ funding because of it. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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As I'm sure everybody is aware of by now, during one of his little victory speeches following Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday, the world's richest man, Elon Musk got on stage hopping around like a complete and total buffoon, and then at one point gave a very weird hand gesture. That, of course, included putting his hand on his chest and then extending his right arm, straight out fingers, fully extended in what many have compared, of course, to a Nazi salute because that's what it looked like. Not saying he did it intentionally, but it sure looked like that. And everybody on social media, of course, was very quick to point that out, including P-B-S-P-B-S went out there and posted on social media again like so many other people did. Billionaire Elon Musk gave what appeared to be a fascist salute Monday while making a speech at the post inauguration celebration for President Donald Trump at the Capital One Arena, Musk put his hand on his chest and then raised it in a salute that appeared similar to the Sig heel used by Nazis at their victory rallies.

It's important to note that PBS did not say he gave a Nazi salute. It said he gave what appeared to be a fascist salute. You know, it looked similar to the sig. He, but they never said that that's what it was, which by the way, is correctly how you cover that. You know, that is the best way to phrase these things so that you avoid any kind of defamation lawsuit. And PBS did a really good job of, of expressing it that way. But not to Marjorie Taylor Greene. Oh God, no. Marjorie Taylor Greene was furious that PBS, again, among hundreds of thousands of people, had the audacity to tweet this out. So Marjorie Taylor Greene decided to threaten to pull PBS's funding as a result of that tweet. Here's what she said, as the chairwoman of the oversight subcommittee on Doge, I look forward to PBS coming before my committee and explaining why lying and spreading propaganda to serve the Democrat party and attack Republicans is a good use of taxpayer funds. We will be in touch soon, says the Karen from Georgia. Where's all the right wingers that are up in arms about government censorship? Right? This is literally a member of the government with the power to cut funding for a broadcast company because she doesn't like what they said and they didn't say anything wrong. They were just reporting on what was happening in the world, which of course is their job.

But where's all those free speech absolutist, right? When private companies try to fact check you, you cry censorship, you cry First Amendment, even though the First Amendment doesn't apply to that, when we have a real potential First Amendment violation of the government stepping into basically shut down a broadcast company, you morons are silent. Oh, that's right. Because I guess it serves your purpose because it's your side doing the censorship. You're not gonna hear a peep outta Republicans about this. They don't care. But this is an abusive power by Marjorie Taylor Greene admitting that she is gonna target them specifically because she doesn't like their alleged political stance, even though it wasn't a political stance. She is threatening to violate their First Amendment freedoms. All of this wrapped into one and conservatives couldn't care less.