Liberal Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks was highlighted by Fox News host Greg Gutfeld on Thursday night in his opening segment. Miller-Meeks was the focus due to her horrendous line of questioning when Dr. David Morens, one of the architects of the COVID lockdowns, testified before a House subcommittee.
Morens is accused of skirting Freedom of Information Act requests by deleting emails and using a personal account instead.
Morens wrote in a June 16, 2020 email:
“The FOIAs are dreadful and paranoia-inducing… We are all smart enough to know to never have smoking guns, and if we did, we wouldn’t put them in emails and if we found them, we’d delete them.”
Gutfeld noted a direct confession to a federal crime, and then played portions of the questioning Iowa Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks provided. It was not good.
MARIANNETTE MILLER-MEEKS: Doctor Morens, I can understand how very difficult it is for you to be here. You’ve had an illustrious career. You went to undergrad and medical school at a very prestigious university… You’re dual-board certified, which is not an easy thing to do, to have dual board certification… So can you tell us just very briefly, how difficult is it to get into medical school, especially in the 70s and 80s?
MARIANNETTE MILLER-MEEKS: Was it easy to get into med school? Is it easy to get into medical school?
DR. DAVID MORENS: It was never easy, and particularly for somebody like me, when I applied to medical school, the only science course I’d ever had was ninth grade general biology.
MARIANNETTE MILLER-MEEKS: And do you know what Alpha Omega Alpha is?
DR. DAVID MORENS: I believe that’s an honorary, an honorary, like, fraternity or society for medical students.
MARIANNETTE MILLER-MEEKS: National Medical honor society. Is it easy to get into Alpha Omega Alpha?
DR. DAVID MORENS: I don’t believe it is.
MARIANNETTE MILLER-MEEKS: Is it more prestigious to get in in the third year or the fourth year?
DR. DAVID MORENS: I don’t know.
MARIANNETTE MILLER-MEEKS: Okay.
Miller-Meeks had five minutes. And it got worse..
MARIANNETTE MILLER-MEEKS: Do you know what a kilt is?
DR. DAVID MORENS: A kilt?
MARIANNETTE MILLER-MEEKS: Yes, sir.
DR. DAVID MORENS: K-I-L-T? Like a Scottish kilt?
MARIANNETTE MILLER-MEEKS: Yes.
DR. DAVID MORENS: Yes.
MARIANNETTE MILLER-MEEKS: Okay and do you know what a pteruges is?
DR. DAVID MORENS: Say again.
MARIANNETTE MILLER-MEEKS: It’s Roman garb, such as Roman soldiers wear, sort of like a skirt.
DR. DAVID MORENS: I don’t, I don’t think I know that word.
After that, Miller-Meeks subjected the country the tooting of her own horn…
MARIANNETTE MILLER-MEEKS: Well, I left home at 16 to put myself through medical school. I was the last person entered in my medical school class at the University of Texas in 1982. The last person. By the third year, I was 12th out of 214 students, Alpha Omega Alpha in the third year. I think merit is extraordinarily important. A pteruges is a skirt. A kilt is a skirt. I don’t think William Wallace was any less a hero in Scotland because he wore a kilt. Nor do I think Roman soldiers were any less fierce, intelligent or strategic because they wore a skirt.
MARIANNETTE MILLER-MEEKS: So I’m having a hard time understanding why in 2021, I would have expected it when I was in medical school in 1982, but why in 2021, and I can understand the embarrassment of having personal emails shared, but you are doing work related stuff on your personal emails, that you would have commented in an email: Dr. Fauci got Rochelle Walensky her job as CDC director by lobbying for her to Ron Klain. Well, she does wear a skirt, I poured a little cold water on her, but he was undeterred in thinking that she is the cats pajamas.
MARIANNETTE MILLER-MEEKS: But so let me just say, am I the cat’s pajama? Do you know how many women sit on this subcommittee? You know what to take for any of these women to get elected to Congress. Because I find your comments to be disgusting. You had an illustrious career and an amazing track to get to where you are. You’re trusted with one of the highest positions in government to combat public health crisis and instead of doing your job, you’re too busy worrying about avoiding FOIAs and challenging someone’s position because they happen to wear a skirt.
DR. DAVID MORENS: May I apologize to you and the committee. It’s a misogynistic statement. And, you know, it was the same snarky, joking stuff, but let me say, I’ve been an a–.
MARIANNETTE MILLER-MEEKS: Sir, that’s not a snarky joke. That is an underlying behavior that indicates how you approach women and how you think of women and it’s disgusting.
Gutfeld torched Miller-Meeks.
“No, you know what’s disgusting, you dummy, that this is how you chose to spend our time and our money,” Gutfeld said. “I think I speak for all of us. Thank God you’re in government and can hold men accountable for their cheesy emails. Maybe after this you can blow the lid off on who left the toilet seat up in the Senate bathroom.
“What a missed opportunity. Never mind the cover-up, the deletions, the lives ruined, civil liberty violations and students who can’t count to 10 if you spot them 4-9. Sure, these (expletives) lied to us and covered up their misdeeds while we all suffered for their dishonesty and incompetence, but their real crime was making sexist jokes at work. We’re probably never going to get the whole story about the COVID-19 disaster and this cretin (Miller-Meeks) isn’t helping, and it has nothing to do with gender.”
Gutfeld said they had a COVID liar on the ropes, but they left the questioning to “dopes.”
It was an insulting handful of minutes from Miller-Meeks who seemed more upset at a stupid joke than the consequences of the government’s response to COVID.
And the Gutfeld’s panel agreed.
Michelle Tafoya said Miller-Meeks needs to be removed from the committee, Congress and government.
“What a freaking waste of time and energy and focus,” Tafoya said. “That was embarrassing.”
She is an utter embarrassment. I will not be voting for her in the primary.