Congress is like an episode of ‘Jerry Springer,’ as trash-talk pols represent themselves, not us
NY Post
It’s been almost exactly a year since we lost our king of daytime dysfunction, Jerry Springer. The man who, for decades, lorded over trashy television: folks working out personal beefs with colorful, threatening language and, sometimes, the aid of a flying chair.
But, as they say, nature abhors a vacuum.
In 2024, that tasty “Jerry!! Jerry!!” drama has a new home — no less than the vaunted halls of the United States Congress, featuring Marjorie Taylor Greene, NYC’s own Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Jasmine Crockett, a Democrat from Texas.
In a House Oversight Committee meeting on Thursday, the trio fought like some of Springer’s greatest all-time guests
The fracas erupted during a hearing on whether to move forward with a contempt resolution against Attorney General Merrick Garland. Yet it somehow devolved into a shouting match about fake eyelashes, body shaming and dramatic cries of “baby girl.”
It would be rip-roaringly funny — hey, I proudly owned a VHS copy of Springer’s “Too Hot for TV” back in the late ’90s — if it weren’t so sad.
