Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) risked reigniting her feud with far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) with a gag on this weekend’s episode of CNN’s “Have I Got News for You.”
When the satirical panel show turned to talk of an upcoming all-female spaceflight onboard one of Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rockets and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) was suggested as a possible passenger, Crockett crossed her fingers and joked: “No, no, no. Take Marjorie, please.”
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There is no love lost between Crockett and Donald Trump acolyte Greene.
They most notably clashed last year during a GOP-led House Oversight Committee hearing when Greene told Crockett: “I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading.”
As the hearing descended into chaos and Greene refused to apologize for the personal insult, Crockett deployed her “bleach blond, bad-built, butch body” line in response.
Crockett later claimed to late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel that she’d be “hard-pressed to find someone dumber” than Greene in the House.
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Lauren Sánchez, Bezos’ fiancée, will lead the all-women crew for the springtime flight. Pop star Katy Perry, “CBS Mornings” host Gayle King, NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and producer Kerianne Flynn will also be on board.
King’s involvement prompted host Roy Wood Jr. to say:
“Gayle, do not go, please. Gayle King, we cannot afford to lose you. If you are a Black woman journalist and you‘re good at your job, they are trying to silence you. They already are. I ain‘t like what they did to Joy Reid. And now they‘re trying to send you to space. Who’s going to interview R. Kelly when he gets pardoned by Trump?”