Outrage TV: critics condemn Gaetz and co for performance over politics

Experts say removal of Kevin McCarthy was in large part to keep rebels relevant on Fox News and other rightwing networks

Rightwing media helped spawn the gang of Republican rabble-rousers who turned Kevin McCarthy's speaker's chair into an ejection seat.

But even though their own party members and some of those same media anchors are criticizing the eight lawmakers after last week's debacle, experts say the professed outrage is just more fuel for a fire in which performance politics burns the brightest.