LeVar Burton chimes in on House Oversight fight with ‘words of the day’

Former “Reading Rainbow” host LeVar Burton on Friday criticized recent fights on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.

“Words of the day: bleach, blonde, delinquent, brawny, butch, body” Burton Said In a post on social platform X.

Burton’s post comes amid confusion during Thursday’s oversight hearing after her colleague, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), came after her early in the hearing. , referring to a question posed by Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas). The hearing focused on charging Attorney General Merrick Garland with contempt of Congress after he failed to provide audio of a meeting between President Biden and special counsel Robert Hur.

But when Greene asked whether Democrats on the committee had hired the daughter of the judge who oversaw former President Trump’s New York hush money case, Crockett chimed in and asserted the relevance of Greene’s remarks. .

“I don’t think you know what you’re here for,” Green said to Crockett. “I think your false eyelashes are ruining what I’m reading.”

From there, chaos erupted as Democrats expressed outrage at Greene’s actions and Greene continued to push back.

At one point, Mr. Crockett questioned whether it would be a violation of parliamentary protocol for “someone on this committee to start talking about someone’s bleach-blonde bad-looking butch body.” Her question seemed to attack Green.

Ms Crockett said comments about Ms Greene’s appearance showed she was “absolutely” racist.

“She’s a racist. I mean, there’s no question about that, because I don’t know if she’s ever attacked any of her colleagues,” Crockett said.

The Texas Democratic Party cited a historical rift between Greene and fellow Oversight Committee member Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.).

“She and Boebert don’t get along. Ms. Boebert wears clips in her hair. And I think Boebert also wears eyelashes sometimes. I don’t know. But she attacks her because of who she is.” plug [physical embellishments]. She wouldn’t do that, would she? But she decided to do it to me.So she definitely [she’s a racist]” Crockett said.

later green Said “While some of you may be angry about the scenes at the Oversight Committee last night, I am angry and disgusted with the policies that the Democratic Party controls on an almost daily basis,” he wrote in a post on X. [Department of Justice], the federal government, and Congress in general. ”