MSNBC’s Joy Reid may be on her way out, according to an industry insider. If the report is accurate, it really should come as no surprise. Reid’s ratings are terrible, not to mention her ability to analyze the day’s political news.
Reid’s show seems to exist only to push the left’s latest narrative about how awful conservatives are.
Jon Nicosia, who used to work for Mediaite and IJR made the announcement on Twitter:
Ben Johnson of the Daily Wire provides a recent example of the sort of discourse that passes for commentary on Reid’s show:
MSNBC’s Joy Reid Says Conservatives Are ‘A Party Of Selfish People Who Cannot Play Well With Others’In a stunning lack of self-awareness, MSNBC host Joy Reid and her guests on Monday night suggested that “white, so-called Christian conservatives” are “selfish” people.“They’re white, so-called Christian conservatives who feel like this country was built by them, for them. Their party, the Republicans,” is merely “a party of selfish people who cannot play well with others,” said Reid in her opening monologue. “They even have their own cable networks.”She then compared Christian conservatives to a classic “Star Trek” character named Charlie, whom she described as an “annoying alien incel who destroys everything around him when he doesn’t get his way.”Reid claimed that white, Christian conservatives wrongly believe the country is being taken away from them. “A certain percentage of Americans feel like the country used to focus on them and fixate on them, and they were the main character. And now that they feel that they’re not the main character, and they don’t always win, and they don’t get to do what they want, and they don’t get to have their way, it’s all an outrage. It’s all a crime. Everything must be overturned. so it goes back to the way they thought it should be,” she said in a stream-of-consciousness.
You may recall that back in 2018, Joy Reid was under fire for homophobic comments on her old blog, and claimed she was hacked.
John Sexton of Hot Air wonders if that chapter has something to do with this:
As I argued at the time, the problem wasn’t so much that Joy had made some remarks about gay marriage that were still pretty common at the time she made them (remember Obama claimed he was against it when he ran for office). What really disqualified Reid was her 2018 lies about having written all of it. She even dragged the FBI into it allegedly.Has their been some new information which has finally convinced people she was less than truthful? Or did the MSNBC brass just decide she’s not getting high enough ratings to justify their decision to abandon their alleged principles? Because Reid’s ratings are down substantially from where they were a year ago.
This news got a strong reaction on Twitter:
We’ll see if Nicosia’s scoop is true. It really would be something to see Chris Cuomo out at CNN and Reid out at MSNBC just a year after Trump left office.
UPDATE:
Nicosia is standing by his reporting in the face of denials:
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