.DeanObeidallah: Marjorie Taylor Greene really, really can't take a joke
— wasn’t going to let Kimmel's jokes at her expense go unchallenged. In response, she claimed she had filed a police report with the Capitol Police for “this threat of violence against me.”
I find Greene to be despicable, but even if Kimmel had called for violence against her, I would denounce it. But that’s not what happened here. We all know it was a joke by a comedian on a late-night comedy show about a public political figure. Kimmel didn’t urge his viewers to “knock the crap out of” Greene if they saw her. He didn’t tell his viewers, “I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees” — which is what her belovedabout countering hecklers at his rallies.
On Thursday, Kimmel responded to Greene on his show, making it clear he doesn’t “condone” any type of violence. But again, that’s not what this is about. As Kimmel aptlyGreene, like Trump, doesn’t want to be laughed at. Kimmel also did an admirable job Thursday calling out Greene’s glaring hypocrisy by noting that the Capitol Police, whom she allegedly filed a report with, are the “same police she voted against giving a congressional gold medal to for defending our Capitol against the insurrection she helped incite on Jan. 6.
But what the king and queen of thin-skinnedness don’t seem to get is that when you go after comedians, you merely ensure even more jokes at your expense. In 2017,
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