Joy Reid and Guests Bootlick Kamala Harris, Attack White Men

Michael Wnek
July 24th, 2024 8:05 PM
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Tuesday night’s episode of MSNBC’s The ReidOut was a doozy but, perhaps, really not that out of the ordinary for the show’s deranged host, Joy Reid. During the final segment, she invited The Weekend host Michael Steele and activist Roland Martin to rhetorically lick Vice President Kamala Harris’ boots and, naturally, insult the white people who dared to say anything in opposition to the presumptive Democratic nominee.

Reid began by triumphantly introducing Monday night’s rally of black men “with tens of thousands joining a video call to raise money in support for Harris' presidential bid.” She added that, “it comes as Republicans claim to be making an appeal to black men, while unleashing a flood of racism and sexism against this historic candidate, saying she's a DEI vice president and worse.”

 

 

Before turning to her guests, Reid played clips of various Republicans commenting on Harris’ becoming the default presidential candidate after President Joe Biden dropped his reelection campaign. The undemocratic nature of the situation had attracted condemnation from all sides of the political spectrum, even prompting an X (formerly Twitter) post from Black Lives Matter declaring that it evidenced Democrats’ blatant hypocrisy.

 

 

Reid also showed a clip from Megyn Kelly asserting that the vice president “slept her way to the top,” referring to her alleged affair with former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown. This drew the ire of all three who wasted no time in pointing out the positions other Republicans had apparently inherited, whining that the party “makes it personal…to drive that negative narrative to that hard edge of the base.” 

Unsurprisingly, that didn’t stop the miserable group from doing the exact same thing, even calling Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) the “house pet of Peter Thiel.”

Reid and Steele further bashed Vance’s work before becoming a senator, claiming he “earn[ed]” it by writing his book Hillbilly Elegy, which Reid called “The dissing his own people” for the second time during the episode.

Martin launched into his own unhinged rant of similar structure, yelling that those (white) Republicans “can go to hell” before adding, “white women, y’all need to be calling them out because they call y’all DEI hires. The Secret Service woman who was trying to protect Trump.” 

It’s ironic that MSNBC wanted to suggest Trump was saved that day. After all, they aggressively pushed the debunked conspiracy theory the Trump was not actually shot.

Later on, Reid highlighted an X post from Erick Erickson that argued: “Her experience is the American dream and melting pot, but not really the black experience, particularly that in southern swing states like Georgia and North Carolina.” The host couldn’t resist clapping back at Erickson, stating, “I doubt he knows any black people because this woman literally went to Howard University and is in a black sorority.” 

For race-obsessed Reid, going to a Historically black College and University (HBCU) and joining a black sorority was clearly good enough. But she completely missed Erickson’s point, specifically that Harris had a privileged upbringing markedly different from that of black women growing up in the southern swing states. 

Reid’s guests had more to say on the matter, engaging in a ridiculous back-and-forth on the origins of Jamaicans and cackling about the “king of mayonnaise,” “unseasoned chicken” Erickson (Click “expand”):

STEELE: But, does Erick Erickson–but does Erick Erickson know the origin story of Jamaicans? 

REID: No, I don’t think he does. 

STEELE: Do you know where Jamaicans are from? 

REID: No.

STEELE: Do you know the origin story? 

REID: No.

STEELE: It’s called Africa.

[Laughs]

STEELE: Just because they are in Jamaica doesn't mean that’s where they originated.

REID: Very quick last word, Roland.

STEELE: Sorry.

MARTIN: And Erick–and Erick, come on. Erick, you the king of mayonnaise, so please, let's not talk about seasoned chicken when you are unseasoned chicken.

REID: (Laughs).

MARTIN: Please. This sister grew up in the Bay area. She know black folks.

REID: We are out of t–(Laughs). 

MARTIN: And, Erick, it’s a lot of black people. Harry Belafonte, Shirley Chisholm, Stokely Carmichael, who are not from here.

REID: North Caribbean. Indeed.

The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:

MSNBC’s The ReidOut

7/23/2024

07:47:59 PM EST

JOY REID: Last night, black men rallied for Vice President Kamala Harris, with tens of thousands joining a video call to raise money in support for Harris' presidential bid. It comes as Republicans claim to be making an appeal to black men, while unleashing a flood of racism and sexism against this historic candidate, saying she's a DEI vice president and worse.

[Cuts to video]

SEN. J.D. VANCE (R-OH): I don't know Kamala. I served in the United States Marine Corps and I built a business. What the hell have you done other than collect a government check for the past 20 years?

[Transition]

JESSE WATTERS: She didn't earn this. She inherited it. And Americans aren’t hot on airs. They like self-made men and women.

[Transition]

LARA TRUMP: He chose her as his running mate not because of her merit, not because she deserved the position–which go back and look at what she's done as vice president, very little if anything–it was because of how she looks.

[Transition]

MEGYN KELLY: People are gonna say that you're slut-shaming and all that stuff. I don't care. She slept her way to the top.

[Cuts back to live]

REID: Sometimes you gotta keep your feelings inside ‘cause you're on the TV. Joining me now, Michael Steele, former RNC chair and co-host of The Weekend on MSNBC, and Roland Martin, host of the Daily Digital Show #RolandMartinUnfiltered and the host of last night's black men, you know, gathering for Kamala. 

So, I'mma come back to you in a second, Roland, but I have to go and allow my–my friend here at this table–le–le–Do–Donald Trump…

MICHAEL STEELE: Didn’t she work at Fox?

REID: …inherited $317 million from his dad, then promptly lost $900 million and then got hooked up by banks and, you know, maybe some mafia folks to sort of build himself back up. He's been bankrupt six times. He became president because he was on a TV show and an employee at NBC on The Apprentice. Megyn Kelly, the things in the book that she said about Fox News, the people–anyway, I won't go thr–I won’t go there.

STEELE: I was gonna say, didn't she work at Fox?

REID: Let's go to the guy who says she didn't earn it. I'm sorry, she got elected. She was a duly-elected incumbent…

STEELE: More than once.

REID: …prosecutor, and attorney general, and a senator. Sorry, is it just ‘cause she's black?

STEELE: Yes. Okay. Yes.

REID: Okay. (Laughs). I’m just–I’m just curious.

STEELE: Yes. I mean, what is the threat here? I mean, if you–if you disagree with the position she led on in the administration, then talk about that. But, oh, “Somebody gonna call this slut-shaming,” and then you slut-shame. So, what–why do you have to make it so personal? Well, you make it personal…

REID: Yeah, she earned it–I mean, well…

STEELE: …you make it personal because you want–you want to drive that negative narrative to that hard edge of the base that eats that like…

REID: But, also, who are you bringing in, right? I mean…

STEELE: Not bringing in that–not (unintelligible)...

REID: …J.D. Vance, first of all, has no right to call this woman by her first name, okay? She is not your housemate. You don't get to call her by her first name, J.D. She has–she’s vice president of the United States. Show her some respect. And J.D. Vance was basically the house pet of Peter Thiel. He wouldn’t have a job if Peter Thiel hadn’t given him a job. He wouldn’t have a career, anything for Senate campaign. 

STEELE: But what did…

REID: Sorry, how did he earn being senator?

STEELE: But what did he do before he became a senator? He wrote a book.

REID: The dissing his own people. Let’s go over to you, Roland.

STEELE: I don’t understand. Roland?

REID: (Laughs). I'm sorry, we had to get those out. Please.

ROLAND MARTIN: Let me say this to all of the white Republicans. black people, we don't care what y’all think. 

STEELE: No.

MARTIN: Why am I saying that? Every accomplished black person, we’ve had, “You’re an affirmative action hire, you’re a DEI hire, you got hit for quotas.” Listen, we heard that crap in college, we’ve heard it on jobs. We are not Clarence Thomas. 

REID: (Gasps).

MARTIN: We’re not gonna sit here and will to go, “Oh my god, they’re criticizing me, I'm not one of them.” We don't care. Her resume, politically, J.D. Vance can't even touch. So, Megyn Kelly, you can go to hell. Jesse Watters, you can go to hell, and the rest of y’all. What did Lisa Murkowski, Republican from Alaska, say? “Of course it’s not appropriate, for heaven’s sakes. What, are they just going to say if you’re not a white male, it’s a DEI candidate? I'm sorry. No.” And, lastly, white women, y’all need to be calling them out because they call y’all DEI hires. The Secret Service women [sic] who was trying to protect Trump. 

STEELE: That’s right.

MARTIN: So, that’s just the real deal.

REID: Let's–let’s go to this event last night, cause it was actually really positive. Talk about it, Roland. You guys had a lot of women on–first of all, a lot of women did it first, did #WinWithblackWomen and then you guys did “Win With black Men.”

MARTIN: So, here’s the–here’s the deal. The black–the black–the black women on Sunday, they’ve been meeting for four years, every single Sunday. So, after Biden announced his decision, I was playing in my man’s (unintelligible) golf tournament at Richard T. Classic [?] in New Jersey. Mike Blake called me, and that guy was calling him too, he was like, “Yo, man, we gotta get the girls together.” He was like, “Hey, we want to do it, work with your platform.” I was like, “Aight, let's do it.” 

That call literally came together in 24 hours. The brothers involved, it was Mike Blake, Bakari Sellers, Khalil Thompson, as well as Quentin James. We had never done anything together. We put this thing together. We used StreamYard. We used my black Star Network. We wanted it to be public and open. 53,000. This is the number of bl–of black men. I know of 45,000 sisters on that call. But 53,000 black men. And here is what’s so crazy. My digital guy sent me a text–’cause I’m actually live doing my show right now, Joy. Only for you, I stepped away. He sent me a text and he said…

[Laughs]

REID: Favor ain’t fair, Roland. Go on.

MARTIN: He said that–he said that–he said that black men are watching the replay on StreamYard and still registering, so we’re now up to 55,000.

REID: Wow. That’s amazing. That is ama–I mean, and the thing is it does belie this…

MARTIN: That’s because they are looking for belonging.

REID: Yeah. Absolutely. And, I mean, as an electoral matter…

STEELE: Yeah.

REID: …this is an important thing to do, right? Because there is an attempt on the Republican side to portray Donald Trump, because he has felonies, as being attractive to black male voters. And this is a different way…

STEELE: And that’s–that’s the most–that’s so insulting. I mean, the–I mean, do you think so little of us that that’s your go to? To take your white convicted felon and think that we identify with him because he’s a convicted felon and he’s…

MARTIN: Don’t forget the tennis shoes! Don't forget the shoes!

STEELE: I was about to go to–Roland, you know my mind, baby boy. I was about to go to those golden-made tennis shoes and the idea that you can say you’re gonna protect our access to menthol cigarettes. Amen. Lord have mercy. I feel–I feel like I can go to church now on Sunday.

REID: Erick Erickson added, “Kamala Harris is the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants who married a Jewish man. Her experience is the American dream and melting pot, but not really the black experience, particularly that in southern swing states like Georgia and North Carolina.” I doubt he knows any black people because this woman literally went to Howard University and is in a black sorority. What’s he talking about?

STEELE: But, does Erick Erickson–but does Erick Erickson know the origin story of Jamaicans? 

REID: No, I don’t think he does. 

STEELE: Do you know where Jamaicans are from? 

REID: No.

STEELE: Do you know the origin story? 

REID: No.

STEELE: It’s called Africa.

[Laughs]

STEELE: Just because they are in Jamaica doesn't mean that’s where they originated.

REID: Very quick last word, Roland.

STEELE: Sorry.

MARTIN: And Erick–and Erick, come on. Erick, you the king of mayonnaise, so please, let's not talk about seasoned chicken when you are unseasoned chicken.

REID: (Laughs).

MARTIN: Please. This sister grew up in the Bay area. She know black folks.

REID: We are out of t–(Laughs). 

MARTIN: And, Erick, it’s a lot of black people. Harry Belafonte, Shirley Chisholm, Stokely Carmichael, who are not from here.

REID: North Caribbean. Indeed. Michael Steele and Roland Martin. (Laughs). That’s it! We’re done. We’re coming back. Coming back. (Cackles).

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