Four years ago this week (July 20, 2020), MSNBC elevated their nasty, ultra-partisan weekend host Joy Reid from weekend mornings to primetime, with The ReidOut taking over the 7pm ET time slot from Chris Matthews’s Hardball. Matthews had abruptly quit four months earlier, after allegations he’d made creepy sexual comments to female colleagues and guests.
Promoted in the midst of the hard-fought 2020 election, Reid has delivered the same vituperative partisanship to an even larger audience. Then-candidate Joe Biden even headlined her first program, lamely flattering Reid that she had been on his list of potential vice presidential nominees.
Culling through Reid’s quotes from the past four years, there’s no shortage of extremist and hateful rhetoric, much of which is complete nonsense. In 2020, she claimed federal law enforcement “abuse” and even “kidnap” people off the…
