Now that Joy Reid has been finally let go by MSNBC, some of her network colleagues and fellow travelers on the far left are reacting the only way that they seem to know how: by crying racism.
Even Rachel Maddow, who still works for MSNBC, and Keith Olbermann, who used to work for MSNBC, are making this claim. It simply can’t be because of Reid’s horrible ratings. It has to be because of some greater failure of social justice on the part of the network that pays Maddow millions of dollars a year.
Maddow commented on Reid’s firing during her show.
From FOX News:
“I am 51 years old. I have been gainfully employed since I was 12. And I have had so many different kinds of jobs, you wouldn’t believe me if I told you. But in all of the jobs I have had, in all of the years I have been alive, there is no colleague for whom I have had more affection and more respect than Joy Reid,” Maddow said.”I love everything about her. I have learned so much from her. I have so much more to learn from her,” she continued. “I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC, and personally, I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door. It is not my call, and I understand that, but that’s what I think.”Maddow went on to call it “unnerving” for the network to cancel the shows of “two non-White hosts” in its weekday programming as well as “The Katie Phang Show” on the weekends, noting that “The Alex Wagner Show” will no longer fill in Maddow’s 9 p.m. ET timeslot for the remainder of the week, which is instead going to “Inside with Jen Psaki.””And that feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them,” Maddow said. “That feels indefensible, and I do not defend it.”
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Keith Olbermann, who was a bit of a mentor to Maddow back in the day, was much more blunt in his assessment of MSNBC’s dismissal of Reid.
From Variety:
Olbermann’s comment came ahead of Rachel Maddow’s Feb. 24 show on MSNBC, in which she directly called out the network for parting ways with Reid. Maddow said on air: “I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC, and personally, I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door.” She also called it “indefensible” that MSNBC’s “two non-white hosts in primetime are losing their shows.”“Of course MSNBC’s firing of Joy Reid was racist,” Olbermann added in another post on X. “They’ve only had four women of color host their own shows. They’ve now fired them ALL.”
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Two major media figures associated with MSNBC have now accused the network of racism. How can any progressive continue to work there? Why hasn’t Rachel Maddow quit her show? Is it really possible that everything they say is completely fake and just for politics and for show? Say it isn’t so.
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