Soup Nazi’ Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene confuses gazpacho with Gestapo
| quote | Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene became a laughing “stock” Wednesday after confusing gazpacho with the Nazi Gestapo. The Republican congresswoman mixed up the chilled tomato soup and Nazi Germany’s secret police force while slamming the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. She first compared the “DC jail” to the “DC gulag,” before ranting against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her “gazpacho police.”
“Not only do we have the DC jail, which is the DC gulag,” Greene said on One America News.“But now we have Nancy Pelosi’s gazpacho police spying on members of Congress, spying on the legislative work that we do, spying on our staffs, and spying on American citizens that want to come talk to their representatives.
”The gaffe spread on Twitter and sparked several jokes, many of them invoking Seinfeld’s infamous “Soup Nazi” gag.“NO COLD SOUP FOR YOU!,” one person joked.“I guess revenge is not the only dish best served cold,” another wrote. One user quipped: “I’m all FOR the Gazpacho Police. It’s my favorite soup, and dammit, someone needs to root out all the bad versions.” |
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The Republican Congresswoman from Georgia has a spokesperson—a spokesman—who said this:
Congresswoman Greene's] spokesman Nick Dyer passed on the following statement from the congresswoman: “No soup for those who illegally spy on Members of Congress, but they will be thrown in the goulash.”
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I don't think this was a mere "slip of the tongue." (And I'm on the same page about this as MSNBC anchor Lawrence O'Donnell.) I think she really thought that the notorious Gestapo from the Nazi Germany era was called the "Gazpacho."
To be fair, it's not like the word "Gestapo" is a regular part of my own spoken vocabulary. But I just can't get my head around the idea that she had "Gestapo" in mind when she said "Gazpacho." And as far as it being a ploy—a gag on her part to go viral on social media—I can't get my head around that, either. I can kind of imagine that (a ploy) from the former (45th) President, but Marjorie Tayler Greene? I'm just not "seeing" it.
An opening here, obviously, for the forum at large to weigh in.[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 02-09-2022).]
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