If you thought the press could come together to unequivocally condemn an Islamist terrorist attack that took the lives of 15 people, you failed to consider MSNBC exists.
In one of the most astonishing media moments I’ve ever seen, Joy Reid’s Thursday evening primetime show dismissed the focus on the Bourbon Street terrorist, insinuating it was being driven by racism because the attacker had a “brown face” with a name that “sounds exotic.” The panel then claimed the real threat in America is “young, white men.”
REID: Yeah, and last word to you on this Charles because this is the challenge because it’s very difficult to feel safe when on top of everything that Mayor Landry just said, you also have politicians who have a self-interest in lying about everything because it helps them with a political narrative, not concerned with the human narrative that could…
