The Bigotry and Mission of Joy Reid
Monday, January 9, 2023, on her MSNBC The Reid Out, Joy Reid provided yet another example of the petty, quasi-racist bigotry she displays towards African American conservatives in an interview with Congressman Byron Donalds.
Here’s most of it:
Reid conducts most of the interview with the partisanship one should expect from a MSNBC or any other liberal hack cable news hack. She criticizes Speaker McCarthy’s committee assignments, states that Rep. Jordan supported “the insurrection,” rejected Donalds’ assessment that Social Security would become insolvent by 2035 (a view shared by many financial professionals by the way), and argues with Donalds over whether he supports privatization of Social Security.
The interview becomes uglier after the 7:40 mark when Reid asks Donalds about his qualifications to be Speaker.
While it may be reasonable to question if a one-term congressman has enough experience or is sufficiently qualified to be Speaker, it is less so in light of Reid’s double standard. She enthusiastically supported Kamala Harris’ vice-presidential nomination without the slightest qualm about Harris’ thin professional record as someone who served less than a full term in the Senate.
In fact, when Tucker Carlson questioned the qualifications of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be on the Supreme Court after only two years as a federal judge, Reid was one of the loudest voices to call the criticism “racist.”
So, why such concern about Donald’s becoming Speaker?
Reid then goes on to ask Donalds one of the most condescending questions I’ve heard asked of a politician since Katie Couric asked Sarah Palin to list the news sources she reads. Reid asks Donalds “Can you explain what the job of the Speaker is?”
Reid’s question, like Couric’s, is intended to suggest ignorance. Of course, Donalds knows what the Speaker does. Donalds probably learned what the Speaker did when he was in high school. Yet Reid felt compelled to ask. Can you imagine the outrage, particularly on MSNBC, if Hannity asked AOC, Rashida Tlaib, or any person of color on the left in Congress to explain what the Speaker does?
The interview takes another wrong turn when Reid dismissively calls Donalds’ Speaker nomination “a diversity statement.”
Again, Reid celebrated the rise of Harris to the vice-presidency and Brown to the Supreme Court, not because of their professional accomplishments, but rather solely because they are Black women.
Yet when an African American ascends in the Republican Party she calls them “props” used to give the bitter old white men in the GOP “a patina of diversity.”
Notice how she slurs Clarence Thomas as “Uncle Clarence” to the approval of her white co-hosts.
Similarly, it became her role on MSNBC to damage Hershel Walker’s chances at winning his senatorial campaign; which she did by playing on the stereotype of a large, slow-talking, Black former football player by claiming “Hershel Walker can barely put a sentence together.”
Reid is not unique. The left wants to paint the GOP as the party of the male, stale, and pale in the eyes of voters. Particularly female voters. So,any emerging figure who is female, young, and/or minority will face abuse, even racist or sexist attacks, either from people from the same group, or by white progressives closely allied by people of that group.
Look at how Cori Bush took to Twitter when there was even a slight chance that the speaker of the House may be a fellow African American:
Also, when a white progressive blogger attacked Mayra Flores after she won a seat in Congress with racist names like “Miss Frijoles,” it was not surprising that he was employed by Democrat Congressman Vicente Gonzalez.
In her defense, Reid is doing what she gets paid a lot to do, which is to silence any African American her white progressive bosses perceive as a threat.
But, it makes her a clown, and a bigot, one who celebrates her people in her party, but vilifies those who are not.
—DK