Above is my tweet in reaction to what Adam Kinzinger said in his interview with Margaret Brennan of CBS News as reported in RawStory:
Excerpt:
Brennan noted that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was recently exposed for suggesting martial law in a text message to then-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Jan. 6. Greene has called herself a "victim" of the Jan. 6 attack.
"Do you need to ask her a few questions?" Brennan asked.
"Yeah, I mean, I'd love to ask her a few questions," Kinzinger agreed. "We know some things. I won't confirm or deny the text messages, of course. But let me just say this. For Marjorie Taylor Greene to say she's a victim, it's amazing how, you know, folks like her attack everybody for being a victim."
The congressman recalled that Greene has a history of attacking school shooting survivors.
"And then when Marjorie Taylor Greene is confronted, she's all the sudden a victim and a poor, helpless congresswoman that's just trying to do her job," Kinzinger noted. "It's insane. We want the information. Look, history is not going to judge her or people like her that are buying the Big Lie well."
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I must quibble with the part of RawStory’s title which says “ ‘Insane’ Marjorie Taylor Greene” since he actually said “it’s insane” and not “she’s insane.”
Of course there’s a difference, albeit with an in-between area, between the colloquial and legal meaning of insanity. We all know the colloquial meaning. This is the legal definition:
(Insanity is a) mental illness of such a severe nature that a person cannot distinguish fantasy from reality, cannot conduct her/his affairs due to psychosis, or is subject to uncontrollable impulsive behavior. Insanity is distinguished from low intelligence or mental deficiency due to age or injury. If a complaint is made to law enforcement, to the District Attorney or to medical personnel that a person is evidencing psychotic behavior, he/she may be confined to a medical facility long enough (typically 72 hours) to be examined by psychiatrists who submit written reports to the local superior/county/district court. A hearing is then held before a judge, with the person in question entitled to legal representation, to determine if she/he should be placed in an institution or special facility. The person ordered institutionalized at the hearing may request a trial to determine sanity. Reference
With MTG where she fits depends on what she actually believes. In order to determine this she’d need a psychiatric evaluation, hence my illustration.
