There is no shock in learning that hosts at MSNBC are knee-jerk race-baiters when it comes to making hits on GOP running mate JD Vance. This is such a tired tactic that, as we will see, it appears these pundits operate in this fashion out of muscle memory as opposed to using their think-muscle. The temptation to leap towards race is such a need for them that they have become numb to the dopamine rush it once delivered.
About the only surprise with this action seen is in what we are not seeing – that would be examples from the network’s most reliable race-obsessed hostess, Joy Reid. By now her quotidian melanin missives are more likely to induce the effects of melatonin. Yet she appears hesitant to this point to engage in color-based accusatory segments. I looked into this and it could be due to her having once brought Vance on her show when his book “Hillbilly Elegy” was…
