I have not watched the interview either so I cannot answer as to how Stahl did. What I think about the whole thing however is this:
Even allowing Greene to go on 60 minutes was a bad move. Greene is really not an important person in American Politics. Even someone as gross as Mitch McConnell at least has standing. He was the Senate Majority leader and he still sets the agenda for the Republicans in the Senate. I despise McConnell, but he has impact in politics. Greene has done almost nothing in her time in the House. She represents one out of 435 districts, and while she supposedly wields power over the spineless McCarthy, her only currency right now is the stupid shit that she says, which gets her attention. 60 Minutes gave her national attention, not to mock her for her stupidity, but to "talk about it". The only thing Stahl and 60 minutes could have done to pull the idea out of the fire is to do what Jon Stewart did to Tucker Carlson all those years back. Stewart made Carlson look like a fool and essentially got Crossfire cancelled. Carlson is still bitter about that.
Greene is a stupid, loud, but small fish right now. While Stahl and 60 Minutes think maybe they exposed some of her unseemly attributes, the reality is that right wing authoritarians will use every tool at their disposal to get their ideas into the mainstream. Whether it is perceived positively or negatively, it is part of the conversation now. They operate through "force of will". This has been used by extreme right wing groups like fascists since the rise of Mussolini and Hitler. They use "liberal" institutions to imbed themselves into the body politic so that they can assume the levers of power and destroy liberal and democratic institutions. When we give them a platform, "for the sake of objectivity" we sign our own death warrants.
Regardless of how people may think or feel the interview went, Greene herself is celebrating. That should say how the interview went. She will win re-election in her specially gerrymandered district and the longer she is in Congress, the more opportunity she will have to mainstream her extremely stupid and harmful ideas. 60 Minutes did no one any favors regardless of whether they pitched her some "hardballs" yesterday.
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