I'm furious with Joy Reid for making me racist and sexist!
A short while ago, MSNBC fired their resident racist, sexist, woke, and insane propagandist of left-wing talking points.
Oh, sorry. I realize that wasn’t enough information. I’m talking about Joy Reid.
I didn’t remark on her firing at the time, but I was happy to hear about it. She is one of the worst people I’ve ever seen on television, and as we all know, that’s a hotly contested accomplishment.
Here’s a few compilations of her “greatest hits”. I don’t blame you if you can’t get through them all. She is just awful. Oh… and please forgive the commentary in some of these, it’s hard to just find a pure compilation these days. Just focus on what the wild-eyed lunatic Reid is saying.
One - (3:05 minutes)
Two - (4:05 minutes)
Three - (6:13 minutes)
Four - (11:46 minutes)
And for those of you with very strong stomachs, here’s a much larger compilation lasting 41:41 minutes.
As multiple Tony Award winning Broadway musical Avenue Q famously said, we’re all a little bit racist, but seeing clips of Joy Reid over the years certainly exacerbated the condition for many of us. Surely, I’m not along in that.
And yes, I know Reid isn’t emblematic of all black people or all women. And yes, I know there are zillions of examples of white, male ideologues and psychopaths out there in TV-land.
But there was something about Reid and her shockingly long run on MSNBC that stood out. How on earth does somebody this nuts and this racist and this sexist and this hateful get to be on the air for that long?
How did she even get hired in the first place? Even if the company bought into the DEI nonsense, are you telling me that this is the highest quality black female TV personality they could find?
I doubt it, but the fact that she held that spot for so long… well, it elevated my racism and sexism. I’m not proud of that, but there it is.
Well, she’s gone now, so hopefully I can find a healthy psychological equilibrium again. It shouldn’t be too difficult. After all, even while she was on the air, all I’d have to do is turn off my TV and put down my phone and walk outside.
Out in the real world, everything’s just fine. People are just… people.
Naturally,
Adam
There's time to fill and you're talking about her. That's good enough for MSNBC level cable stations. A test pattern would probably get as many viewers as Joy, but Indian Head test patterns are considered racist...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian-head_test_pattern
Also, a lot of the lower tier basic channels were created as a form of leased access programming. Fox News is another example. After the cable TV act of 1992 the only way for cable companies to increase rates was to add channels. This led to full time infomercial channels, various Preview guides and the ability for someone to just buy a channel. Fox was the pioneer in this, they actually supplied all the equipment for the headend and paid cash money to be right next to CNN on the channel card. Microsoft partnered with NBC to create MSNBC as a tech and business channel, but that fell out of favor when MSN failed as an alternative to AOL. NBC was left with a basic cable channel and nothing to put in it (producing 24/7 news is hard). So they made it a dumping ground for opinion and positioned it as an alternative to Fox News primetime.