60 Minutes’ Failure to Probe Marjorie Taylor Greene, Explained

Jeremy Fassler
6 min readApr 4, 2023

Last Sunday’s 60 Minutes interview between Lesley Stahl and Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene was as disgraceful as people feared. Critics argued that handing a microphone to a QAnon swamp creature would normalize her, and they were right. But there’s a larger issue here that goes beyond Greene’s craziness or the choice to interview her in the first place, which is 60

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Jeremy Fassler

Correspondent, The Capitol Forum. Bylines: The New York Times, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, etc. Co-author of The Deadwood Bible with Matt Zoller Seitz.