Another one bites the dust!
Joy Reid is done at MSNBC.
There’s a long line of uber-leftist journalists (going back to CBS’s Dan Rather and NBC’s Bryant Gumbel) that the MRC has highlighted over the years who’ve lost their jobs for being astoundingly biased. But the hate-filled Reid was so voluminous in her rants against conservatives that she had her own category in our annual Worst of the Year awards.
The following is just a tiny, but staggering, sampling of Reid’s rants while she was host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut:
I’m Not Saying Trump and Musk are Nazis But…
“Similarities to what happened in Germany, and what’s happening now in America are just undeniable….Trump and Stephen Miller, his former director of speechwriting, depict non-white immigrants as carriers of deadly diseases who are violent terrorists. Trump was returned to the presidency after staging a coup, and has exerted control of media or social media in order to parrot anti-immigrant vitriol and openly hateful anti-LGBTQ language, which is what Meta just did….And then there was this startling image of Trump’s biggest paymaster Elon Musk, that many likened to a Nazi salute….I’m not saying that Donald Trump, his administration or his supporters want to exterminate millions of people in death camps but just ask yourself, who do they blame right now for all of our problems? It’s certainly not the greedy corporations or failed Republican policies.”
— Host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, January 27, 2025.
You Know Who Else Won Time’s Man of the Year? Stalin and Hitler!
“As Time magazine describes it, ‘For 97 years the editors of Time have been picking the person of the year. The individual who, for better or for worse, did the most to shape the world and the headlines over the past 12 months. In many years, that choice is a difficult one. In 2024, it was not.’ The key line ‘for better or for worse’ is not much of a ringing endorsement, and we all know which one Trump falls under, and let’s remember who else has been given this title in years past in the same category: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Vladimir Putin. In fact, Stalin won the distinction twice, just like Trump.”
— Host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, December 12, 2024.
Lecturing Latino Men Who Voted for Trump
“Trump won every age group of men, including 60 percent of Gen X men and 6 in 10 white men. Also Latino men, who despite the utter disrespect shown by Trump and his promise to deport some of your mixed class — mixed status families, most of them voted in a 55 percent majority to make the deportations happen. Y’all voted with Steven Miller and David Duke and against your own sisters and chose Kamala — who chose Kamala Harris, with 60 percent of their votes. So you own everything that happens to your mixed status families and to your wives, sisters, and abuelas from here on in.”
— Host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, November 7, 2024.
Electing Trump = Walking “Willingly Into a Hitlerian Dictatorship”
“[Donald Trump] has decided to make fearmongering about immigration the center of his entire campaign with fascistic rhetoric….The question now for America is: Have we gotten to the point where we would destroy our own economy and walk willingly into a Hitlerian dictatorship because of the fear Donald Trump and his MAGA cronies are perpetuating solely for their own political benefit?...It [Trump’s immigration policy] will look like concentration camps in Germany in the 1930s because that’s what you call it when you put somebody in a camp with means to separate them from society. It’s called a concentration camp.”
— Host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, September 27, 2024.
“A Dire Warning” for “Democracy”
“And we begin this special episode of The ReidOut tonight with a dire warning for our democracy. Over the next hour, I will lay out the greatest threat to the American democratic experiment in modern times. And it’s called Project 2025. With just 99 days until election day, and with voting starting a lot sooner than that in some states like Pennsylvania where early voting begins in September, it is imperative that every American understand what Project 2025 is about and how it would affect every single one of us if it was ever enacted. Tonight is just the first of many nights where we will dig into this dangerous plan.”
— Host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, July 29, 2024.
Trump Like Cult Leaders David Koresh, Jim Jones and Charles Manson
“What Donald Trump is doing….it’s kind of David Koresh. It’s kind of Jim Jones. Because those two men started by saying, ‘You need to come to Jesus.’ They started as Christian evangelizers. But eventually, their evangelism said, ‘No, I get to have your wife. No actually, I get to tell you to kill these federal agents that are outside. I’m asking you to pick up a machine gun and shoot them because I don’t want to go to jail.’...It’s making me lose my mind to watch people who call themselves Christians fall down on their knees and worship this man. This is [Charles] Manson stuff.”
— Co-host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, April 2, 2024.
Republicans Aren’t Allowed to Say Slavery is Bad
“You can’t even say slavery was bad now in the Republican Party. That’s how far it’s gone.”
— Host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, July 27, 2023.
“Toy-Sized Mussolini” DeSantis
“Presidential candidate and toy-sized [Benito] Mussolini Ron DeSantis unveils his authoritarian manifesto, vowing to destroy leftism and wokeism….He’s going to need some de facto morality police to monitor what you read and ban books….You want to control your body anymore, ladies? No, Chairman — sorry, President DeSantis is going to do that. And there is a model for what he wants to do….That model also happens to have a name. And it’s called totalitarianism.”
— Host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, May 30, 2023.
Republicans “Bringing Back the Lynching Vibe”
You have Republicans in multiple states including Florida passing and pushing laws that will allow people to hit Black Lives Matter protesters or any protesters they like with their cars….They seemed to have gotten back into lynching, hanging, all sorts of other draconian 19th-Century fare. What is going on with Republicans that they seem to be bringing back the lynching vibe?...Fascism has many features. And one of them is this sort of lust to be able to harm or kill your political opponents and it feels like across the board on the right, there is this kind of sort of lust for that, right? For we need to be able to not let our political opponents vote, but also to hurt them or worse.”
— Host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s The ReidReport, April 10, 2023.
Reid Unpacks the “Myth of Thanksgiving,” America Was Actually “Founded on Violence”
“It’s also important to unpack the myth of Thanksgiving. It is a holiday riddled with historical inaccuracies. Built on this myth that the indigenous welcomed their colonizers with open arms and ears of corn. A simplistic fairytale interpretation of a 1621 encounter between indigenous tribes and English settlers that erases the genocide that followed. It’s the truth that Republicans want banned from our textbooks because here is the secret they want so desperately to keep. We are a country founded on violence.”
— Host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, November 23, 2022.
Republicans’ “Tolerance for Blood” Is “Bottomless”
“Please stop thinking that there is some body count, some level of brutality and carnage that will move them — these Republicans and their two pet Democrats. That the rivers of blood will one day run deep enough and the slaughters tragic enough that these politicians will say, ‘Okay, that’s enough. Let’s do something.’ Because their tolerance for blood and the NRA’s tolerance for slaughter are bottomless, as is the grief and the torture that the parents of slaughtered children and slaughtered grandmas and shoppers and bible study parishioners, all the slaughtered Americans will feel every day for the rest of their lives. So honestly, to hell with anybody who says ‘don’t politicize this,’ because these deaths, until we change, until we stop letting this minority of ghouls rule us, this is who we are.”
— Host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, May 25, 2022.
Elon Musk Misses the Days of Apartheid, Wants To Bring It Back on Twitter
“There was a time when people had the double hashtags around their names because they were Jewish and right-wingers were saying ‘get in the oven’ any time you made any benign comment on Twitter. They attacked women. You know, the misogyny was crazy on Twitter for a while. Elon Musk, I guess he — you know — misses the old South Africa in the ’80s. He wants that back.”
— Host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, April 26, 2022.
Angry at “Thuggish” Republicans
“They’re claiming that they are the defenders of the integrity of childhood. They’re going to go after child pornography and rape. And they’re going to defend the integrity of childhood. [Supreme Court Justice] Brett Kavanaugh was accused, credibly, of rape and the victims were teenage girls and college students. High school and college students! So Josh Hawley, and [Republican Senator] Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham and all the rest of you, and [Republican Senator] Mike Lee, and Tom ‘thuggish’ Cotton. You didn’t defend teenage victims of the man you gleefully put in a lifetime position on the Supreme Court. You don’t get to say anything about Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. She bested you intellectually and you’re mad about it. Stay mad!”
— Host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, March 22, 2022.
Ron DeSantis Wants to Be “Bull Connor”
“The junior Don [Florida Governor Ron DeSantis] has also taken upon himself to meddle in the state’s congressional redistricting process, submitting his own map which — you guessed it — dilutes the voting power of people of color, cutting in half the number of majority African American districts, splitting up Hispanic voters in South Florida districts, and giving Republicans an eight-seat advantage. I guess when President Biden spoke of whether Republicans wanted to be Bull Connor, DeSantis was at home raising his hand, ‘Me, me, I want to be Bull Connor!’”
— Host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, January 18, 2022.
Reid Rages Against “Nazi-Curious” Republicans
“You have the Democrats, the responsible parent telling you to be decent to people who are different from you and take care of the Earth, and don’t threaten to kill people….and who pass things like health care and roads and bridges and food for people who can’t afford it. Then there’s the other parent….the Republicans, who lets you stay up all night and eat Snickers for dinner, and take off your mask in a COVID cloud....Your drunk, mostly absentee, Nazi- curious, authoritarian Republican Party is doing this circus, waiting around for you to put their ridiculous, embarrassing, democracy-hating, Trump-cult authoritarianism, open-racism-embracing, dangerous behinds back in power.”
— Host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, November 18, 2021.
Joy Reid Has More Rage for GOP Than Taliban
“The only reason that we know who the Taliban are is because they decided to back a terrorist group, al-Qaeda, right? They’re an extreme, right-wing organization that perverts….the Islamic faith for power….Here in the United States, our extremists have a political party backing them.”
— Host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, August 19, 2021.
“Jim Crow” Ted Cruz Is a Betrayal to His Race for Opposing Voting Bill
“Ted Cruz says a lot of stupid things. He does a lot of stupid things. But I personally, as a person of color, as a Black person, am beyond offended that he would dare use the word ‘Jim Crow’ when his party is literally a Jim Crow Party….What you see here on your screen is what Republicans fear in the voting booth and they’re going to do everything they can to make sure it doesn’t happen, including, you know, Stephen from Django Unchained aka Ted Cruz….who’s working to stop fellow people of color from voting, which is amazing.”
— Host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, May 11, 2021.
GOP Wants to End Democracy, “Torture” Black Voters
“What Republicans are saying is they’re going to make it torture for you to vote in line by having fewer machines, beat-up machines at places….places where black folks live...make it impossible or torture for you to vote in line. And they’re going to make it impossible for you to vote by mail. They’re going to lock off every way that you can vote….This is the end of democracy in America. This is the beginning of the South Africa strategy…..It’s Jim Crow America.”
— Host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, March 25, 2021.
