MSNBC’s Joy Reid has discovered another scandal plaguing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday’s edition of The ReidOut. Not only does DeSantis eat pudding with his fingers, he is also short. Meanwhile, the Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson stuck to the classic DeSantis fake scandals as he falsely accused DeSantis of trying to ban books about Rosa Parks and Hank Aaron.
After Wilson claimed that DeSantis lacks the charisma to win a presidential election, Reid turned to Democratic strategist Don Calloway to talk about the pudding scandal, “put up three fingers and be like ‘save me some pudding ‘cause I got three fingers right all ready to grub’ That's so gross, though. That's just nasty.”
Reid also didn’t believe DeSantis could survive a primary with Donald Trump:
Let me ask you, Don, because here's the challenge of going against Trump. He has one skill, making up nicknames… You can dislike Trump and think he's a fascist and, you know, you’d be right but he's good at that I mean, Ron DeSantis is short. He wears, like, high platform shoes to make himself look taller, and they have been photographed.
DeSantis is 6 foot 1, but Reid still tried to make these non-issues matter “He did have the boots moment and now he's got the pudding moment. It's like, Donald Trump is two ticks away from either making his nickname Budding or boots.”
Later in the segment, despite just having a discussion about pudding and DeSantis’s height and footwear, Reid claimed DeSantis’s attacks on wokeness wouldn’t translate to a general election because nobody cares.
Wilson agreed with this assessment, “They want to enter some alternate universe, and it will never work because, you know what, the average person out there, they're not worried about wokism or whatever the hell it means. They can't define it, of course.”
That’s a bit ironic coming from the same segment that is throwing the word “fascist” around, but Wilson claimed of the average voter “They're not worried about that. They're worried about the economy, their kids' education, their jobs, they're worried about things that matter to their families.”
Conservatives care about their kids’ education too, hence Florida’s new laws, but Wilson continued, “and when they see things that threaten their families and hurt their families, because like it or not, Ron DeSantis, I'm sorry to tell you governor, there are a lot of gay people in the country, like it or not there are a lot of African American people in the country, Ron”
Wilson then highlighted MSNBC’s very low standard on facts as he added:
And you know, you just banning books, like banning books about Rosa Parks and Hank Aaron in Florida schools because you don't like them, or taking out the fact that Rosa Parks was African-American in a school textbook, that's insanity. People will see that and so the darkness and the weirdness all together is going to make him, I think, very off putting until of course Donald Trump tears his liver out and eats it live on stage and that'll be that.
Nobody’s banning books about Hank Aaron. As for Parks, what Wilson is referring to is a New York Times report about a textbook that was submitted for review. What Wilson didn’t say was the publisher did this because of what they thought was needed in Florida, not what was actually required. Additionally, the Times itself said “It’s unclear which of the new versions was officially submitted for review” and the book was rejected for unrelated, bureaucratic reasons.
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Here is a transcript for the March 17 show:
MSNBC The ReidOut
3/17/2023
7:35 PM ET
JOY REID: Or put up three fingers and be like “save me some pudding ‘cause I got three fingers right all ready to grub”
That's so gross, though. That's just nasty. Let me ask you, Don, because here's the challenge of going against Trump. He has one skill, making up nicknames.
DON CALLOWAY: Yes.
REID: I mean, you cannot look at Marco Rubio and not think Lil' Marco, it’s just-- you can dislike Trump and think he's a fascist and, you know, you’d be right—
CALLOWAY: He is.
REID: --but he's good at that I mean, Ron DeSantis is short. He wears, like, high platform shoes to make himself look taller, and they have been photographed. He did have the boots moment and now he's got the pudding moment. It's like, Donald Trump is two ticks away from either making his nickname Budding or boots.
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RICK WILSON: You know, Joy, that's exactly right. These people are -- I mean, this is the secret of MAGA. It's dark and paranoid and depressing and pessimistic and weak philosophy. Because they may beat their chests and do the whole monster truck thing, but the reality is they think we're weak. They think our country is bad. They think the things that make this big crazy country work and go forward are wrong, they want to turn the clock back to this imaginary past that never existed in any reality at all.
They want to enter some alternate universe, and it will never work because, you know what, the average person out there, they're not worried about wokism or whatever the hell it means. They can't define it, of course.
They're not worried about that. They're worried about the economy, their kids' education, their jobs, they're worried about things that matter to their families and when they see things that threaten their families and hurt their families, because like it or not, Ron DeSantis, I'm sorry to tell you governor, there are a lot of gay people in the country, like it or not there are a lot of African American people in the country, Ron, and you know, you just banning books, like banning books about Rosa Parks and Hank Aaron in Florida schools because you don't like them, or taking out the fact that Rosa Parks was African-American in a school textbook, that's insanity. People will see that and so the darkness and the weirdness all together is going to make him, I think, very off putting until of course Donald Trump tears his liver out and eats it live on stage and that'll be that.
