For one brief moment, I truly felt sorry for far-left MSNBC host Joy Reid as she spoke publicly for the first time since learning that her show, The ReidOut, had been abruptly canceled. It was a blow. She had been on the air for five years, and the show had been her everything. Fighting to hold back her tears, she said, “my show had value. … What I was doing had value.”
However, as Reid regained her composure and her signature defiance replaced her vulnerability, any empathy I had felt quickly vanished.
Here’s what she had to say:
What I will just say is that, in the end, where I land is that the moment of guilt that I felt that I went hard on so many issues, whether it was the Black Lives Matter issues, of a young baby, or a mom or dad that was killed.Or when we opened up people’s eyes to the fact that the Asian Americans were being targeted and not just black folks….Or about what the president is doing that is subversive to the Constitution that is injurious to our liberty. Defending books that people find inconvenient. Nicole Hannah Jones put into our spirit that we need to understand 1619 as the real founding of this country.Whether it’s talking about any of these issues – and yes, whether it’s talking about Gaza and the fact that we, as the American people, have a right to object to little babies being bombed. And where I come down on that is I’m not sorry. I am not sorry that I stood up for those things. Because those things are of God. And I’m a church girl too and those were the things that I was taught were of God. And so, I’m not sorry. I’m just proud of my show.
Reid’s words revealed that despite her show’s declining ratings over the past year, and even after it was suddenly pulled from the air, she hasn’t learned a thing. Perhaps it’s still too fresh, and she remains in shock, but she failed to recognize her own unwillingness to yield on any of the issues that she raised.
The atrocities committed by Hamas militants against Israeli citizens, including women and infants, on October 7 never seemed to cross her mind. It made no difference to Reid that elementary school children had access to books depicting explicit sexual acts or that, rather than subverting the Constitution, President Trump is actively working to restore it.
Judging from the reactions to Reid’s video on X, she didn’t appear to win over many hearts and minds.
Many people will be glad when Reid signs off for the last time this week.
Hopefully, MSNBC will target Rachel Maddow next.
Elizabeth writes commentary for The Washington Examiner. She is an academy fellow at The Heritage Foundation and a member of the Editorial Board at The Sixteenth Council, a London think tank. Please follow Elizabeth on X or LinkedIn.
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