Former “Reading Rainbow” host LeVar Burton weighed in Friday on the recent fight in the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.
“Words of the day; bleach, blonde, bad, built, butch and body”, Burton he said in a post on social platform X.
Burton’s post refers to a question asked by Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) amid a chaotic oversight hearing on Thursday, after her committee colleague, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) , came after her at the beginning of the hearing. The hearing focused on holding Attorney General Merrick Garland accountable for contempt of Congress after he failed to turn over audio of President Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur.
However, when Greene questioned whether Democrats on the panel employed the daughter of the judge who oversaw former President Trump’s case in New York, Crockett chimed in, resisting the relevance of Greene’s words.
“I don’t think you know why you’re here,” Greene told Crockett. “I think your false eyelashes are getting in the way of what you’re reading.”
From there, chaos erupted as Democrats expressed their outrage at Greene’s behavior, and Greene continued to fight back.
At one point, Crockett questioned whether “someone on this committee starts talking about someone’s blond, poorly built body” would break Congressional protocol. Her question seemed to be a jab at Greene.
Crockett said Greene’s comments about her appearance show she is “absolutely” racist.
“She is racist. I mean, I have no doubts about it. Because, I mean, I don’t know if she ever attacked her own colleagues,” Crockett said.
The Texas Democrat pointed to the historic rift between Greene and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado), a member of the Oversight Committee.
“She and Boebert are not getting along. Boebert has bobby pins in her hair. And Boebert also wears eyelashes sometimes – it seems. I don’t know. But she doesn’t attack her for anything of hers [physical embellishments]. She doesn’t do that, right? But she decided to do it with me. So absolutely [she’s a racist],” said Crockett.
Greene later he said in a post on [Department of Justice]federal government and Congress in general.”
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