Marjorie Taylor Greene makes a bigoted fool of herself during PBS, NPR hearing

Marjorie Taylor Greene

On Wednesday, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene held a public hearing in which she tried to put forth the argument that PBS and NPR should be defunded. In interviews before the meeting and statements during the meeting, Greene pushed the claim that PBS in particular should be defunded because it supposedly uses drag queens to groom children into thinking that they are transgender. It's a ludicrous belief to normal people, but we are also talking about Marjorie Taylor Greene, a woman who made strange claims in the past about "Jewish space lasers." 

The hearing was ridiculous, of course. Luckily though all of the attention in the beltway is focused on the war plans leak scandal which has gripped the Trump Administration for the last few days. That's not to say that MTG''s hearing didn't have its moments. One is below when Greene showed her "proof" regarding her claims about PBS and drag queens supposedly grooming kids. It's a video of a drag queen singing:

🔥MUST WATCH🔥@RepMTG TORCHES PBS for airing a program that included a Drag Queen singing to children.

“‘The hips [on the drag queen] goes, swish, swish, swish. The shoulders go, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy.’ That's repulsive. That's not what children ages three to eight should… pic.twitter.com/am9D86wEsP

— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) March 26, 2025

By the way, according to a Daily Beast article, the video did not air on PBS. In the same article, the drag queen in the video, who was also smeared as child predator by Greene, had this to say: 

 Lil Miss Hot Mess, the stage name of performer Harris Kornstein, told the Daily Beast in a statement that Greene’s “political bullying” amounted to censorship. Greene attacked PBS CEO Paula Kerger on Wednesday over a digital segment featuring Lil Miss Hot Mess reading her book The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish, though Kerger said the segment did not air on PBS. “While she claims to promote liberty, in reality, she just wants to tell us all what to think and do,” the performer said in a statement. “That’s not freedom, that’s fascism.” 

 “Greene’s attempts to defund PBS and NPR are the worst form of censorship, reflecting both her own ignorance and the Republican party’s authoritarian impulses,” she said. “The reality is that communities all over the country – including in her own district – deserve access to educational public media that reflects the diversity and creativity that makes our world beautiful.” 

But what if the segment had aired on PBS?  What was wrong with it? There was nothing obscene or sexual in general about it, except for in the bigoted minds of Greene and people like her. No matter what LGBTQ people do, they will always see us in a prejudicial light because they refuse to see us as anything else other than their stereotypical objects of derision. And that is their problem, not ours. 

One more thing of note which took place during MTG's hearing is how Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett called Greene out to her face. Ms. Crockett broke it down rather nicely.