How naive of me to think Joy Reid was fired over ratings: https://t.co/ToLxT96iNN pic.twitter.com/MoJh3WsPwm
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) February 25, 2025
Joy Reid is one of many media personalities being shuffled about recently. Joy Reid oozes racial hatred from every pore. She used to laugh at “white tears.” Who’s crying now?
After being fired, Reid will have more time to grope around for some kind of an explanation for how little influence she and people like her have over increasingly large numbers of the American public.
Imagine that you’re an MSNBC host and every day you show up and say the same things. Trump is a fascist. Trump is a racist. Trump is the new Hitler. Trump’s going to destroy our country. Trump is a rapist. He’s a white supremacist, white nationalist.
Then you see a huge portion of the country vote for the person that you’ve been obsessively condemning for eight years. You have to start wondering, wait a minute, it looks like Americans don’t really listen to what I say. Either they listen and they don’t trust me, or they just don’t listen at all.
I don’t think Joy Reid will reflect on this. It’s true that she had no audience, no influence and no power, but that’s not a failure on her part. It’s because Americans are too bigoted, too stupid, and too drowning in right-wing disinformation to understand how great she is.
Joy Reid’s bosses and other media higher-ups have to self-reflect though. What is it that we have done to lose the trust and faith of so many people, to make arguably the majority of the country deeply hate us and distrust us? What is it that we’ve done to contribute to this and to cause this?
And they are finally coming up with answers.