REGAN: ‘Not productive commentary’

Brent Regan’s Lincoln Day recap of the speech by congressional bomb thrower Marjorie Taylor Greene included the following: “her sensational headline comments regarding Jan. 6 have often been denounced, but if one invests the 30 seconds it takes to view the original video you discover that she was responding to an accusation that freshman congresswoman Greene and Steve Bannon had organized Jan. 6.” OK, I did this, and it took less than 20 seconds to realize someone was fibbing again.

Regan’s assertion that a “sensational headline” accusing MGT and Steve Bannon of planning the Jan. 6 insurrection by his so called “fake news” is simply not true. However, it is possible that a late-night TV comedian did in fact make a similar crack about their possible involvement. It also seems incorrect as suggested by Regan that MGT was being “sarcastic.” In a December 2022 speech to the New York Young Republicans, Ms. Greene, in videos widely available online, seems dead serious about her “true story” in which she stated that, “if we had planned it, we would have won, not to mention, we would have been armed.”

This is not productive commentary by any public figure, including Brent Regan who seems to have regular difficulty with truth. With respect to a sitting member of Congress promoting violence, such comments do the institutions of our republic absolutely no good at all and will only pave the way for more division and hate like we experienced on Jan. 6, 2021.

REID HARLOCKER

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