- Marjorie Taylor Greene invited the far-right comedian Alex Stein onto her Facebook show on Thursday.
- She celebrated Stein's having recently sexually harassed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the Capitol.
- Greene suggested AOC should say thank you for the "compliment." Stein agreed.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene invited a comedian who sexually harassed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the steps of the Capitol onto her Facebook show and suggested that the New York Democrat should thank him for the "compliment."
Alex Stein, a comedian and far-right activist, had on Wednesday catcalled Ocasio-Cortez in racialized terms and made lewd comments about her body.
In a video he posted to social media, he can be seen calling her his "favorite big booty Latina" who is "hot hot hot like a tamale" and wants to "kill babies" — the latter being a reference to Ocasio-Cortez' pro-abortion stance.
The stunt earned him an hour-long appearance on "MTG:Live," the podcast-style show that Green regularly posts to Facebook, where Greene suggested that Ocasio-Cortez ought to be grateful for the attention.
"You're a comedian, you're doing what you do, saying things that are actually quite the compliment," said Greene.
Part of the exchange was clipped by left-leaning Twitter account Patriot Takes:
—PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) July 15, 2022
Stein said: "I was complimenting! She's Jenny from the Block! I mean, J. Lo is known for her voluptuous derrière, and all I was trying to do is say you look great!"
Stein earlier told Insider's Cheryl Teh that he would "love to date" the New York congresswoman.
On the show, Stein noted that he was from Texas and Greene is in Georgia, and described his behavior towards Ocasio-Cortez as "Southern hospitality" in which he is "just commenting on your beauty."
"I don't think that that, for me, is some sort of negative thing, but they live in a society where compliments are bigotry, and based in racism and hate," he said, referring to the Democrats.
Greene agreed and suggested that Ocasio-Cortez should have thanked him. "I think women should be confident if a man gives you a compliment, a woman can say 'thank you,'" she said.
"Or if she's going upstairs and someone's yelling stuff at her, she can just wave and go on, and not go into full outrage," she said.
On the show, Stein also drew comparison between his "tamale" comment and a recent gaffe by the first lady Jill Biden, who drew criticism earlier this week for a comment comparing diversity among Latinos to the uniqueness of breakfast tacos.
Ocasio-Cortez also tweeted about the incident, saying that Stein was looking for "extremist fame" and criticized a lack of protection at the Capitol.
Greene contrasted the incident with a complaint she made earlier this year about Tim Hysom, a Democrat congressional staffer who was found to have defaced anti-trans posters outside her office — an act she said the Justice Department declined to prosecute, as Fox 5 Atlanta reported. Greene suggested that double standards were at play.