For the second night in a row, MSNBC's ReidOut host Joy Reid showed how easily triggered she gets when people she likes get challenged for their past statements and record. Reid spent much of the second half of her Wednesday night show lashing out at Republican Senators who dared to question Biden Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson over her record of giving light sentences to pedophiles.
Reid went right out of the gate accusing the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee of stoking "the MAGA base" by bringing up "all the hot button cultural wedge issues." Reid then accused Republicans of not wanting to solve any of the cultural issues like Critical Race Theory or transgender indoctrination:
None of these Senators has or plans to legislate on any of it because to be clear, they do not care about any of it. Nor would they use their power to do anything about it. But they know their base gets really excited about critical race theory and questions about racist babies and accusing black people of being soft on crime and about right-wing Christian victimology, and QAnon.
Reid was particularly upset that Senator Marsha Blackburn would ask Judge Jackson if she could define the word "woman": "the genius out of Tennessee asked her to define the word woman. A question no previous Supreme Court nominee has ever been asked."
It's obvious why Reid was furious, Jackson was exposed as woke since refused to define something so simple. Reid predictably never aired that exchange.
After returning from a commercial break, she personally attacked Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) who she called "fist in the air Josh, and slaveholder descendent Tom Cotton." She accused both Senators of using "QAnon baiting smears against Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson."
Reid said that the GOP Senators were "constantly saying child pornography because they know that triggers QAnon and they want them to vote Republican." Which of course is false.
The unhinged host then ludicrously claimed that Judge Jackson "was treated essentially like Anita Hill. She was treated like Christine Blasey Ford. Because she's a woman, she could not act like Kavanaugh." Proving once again that everything is about race for Joy Reid, she argued that black women "have to always behave as an adult" while white men can "behave as a child and still get as far as or further than we can."
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MSNBC’s The ReidOut
3/23/2022
7:37:26 p.m. EasternJOY REID: And in order to stoke the MAGA base, we heard all the hot button cultural wedge issues regardless of the relevancy to Judge Jackson's actual role in the court. And despite the important fact that none of these Senators has or plans to legislate on any of it because to be clear, they do not care about any of it. Nor would they use their power to do anything about it. But they know their base gets really excited about critical race theory and questions about racist babies and accusing black people of being soft on crime and about right-wing Christian victimology, and QAnon. To that end, Lindsey Graham even asked Judge Jackson to rate her religiosity on a scale of 1 to 10. The genius out of Tennessee asked her to define the word woman. A question no previous Supreme Court nominee has ever been asked. And let's not forget, the airing of old grievances and the score-settling about hearings held for their past nominees. Something Senator Graham complained about, for the third day in a row.
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7:43:16 p.m. Eastern
REID: Today two of the most craven of all Senate Republicans, Josh Hawley, you know fist in the air Josh, and slaveholder descendent Tom Cotton reprised their QAnon baiting smears against Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. Drilling down on her sentence in one particular case involving child pornography. As a testament to her unimpeachable qualifications, however. Judge Jackson did not back down.
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REID: Well they don't legislate. Because they're just performers. And they're trying right now, Joyce, to perform, as you said, for their base. Right. For the QAnon people. They're constantly saying child pornography because they know that triggers QAnon and they want them to vote Republican. I mean this is very simple. We know what they're doing. But I'm struck by the fact that a woman who was a judge who is already very esteemed legal mind that everyone agrees because they keep putting her on the bench, on the federal bench. She was treated essentially like Anita Hill. She was treated like Christine Blasey Ford. Because she's a woman, she could not act like Kavanaugh. And I think what that says to women, to women who are lawyers, to black women is that the standard for us is that we have to always behave as an adult. The standard for white men is they can behave as a child and still get as far as or further than we can. They sent that message very clear. Lindsey Graham, all the little mansplainers, all the little confederacy crew that really sounded like they were in the 19th century still. They can behave that way because there's no constraints on them because of who they are.
