You might find this hard to believe, but MSNBC fired Joy Reid over the weekend.
Yes, it’s true. It turns out that regularly spouting the dumbest things on cable news, as Reid does, ultimately chases off even the most loyal automatons in your audience and makes the suits on the top floor of the building start to build a file on you.
And, eventually, that file overflows as the viewership shrivels, and … they replace you with a trio of similar nincompoops who haven’t quite irritated the country as Joy Reid has.
MSNBC liberal mainstay Joy Reid’s show has been canceled as part of a major overhaul by the network’s new president, Rebecca Kutler, according to a report.
The 7 p.m. program hosted by ardent President Trump critic Reid, 56, will be replaced by a new panel show featuring co-hosts Alicia Menendez, Michael Steele and Symone Sanders Townsend, the New York Times reported, citing insiders.
The final episode of Reid’s show, “The ReidOut,” will air sometime this week, ending a mainstay of MSNBC’s lineup for the past five years, according to the Times.
MSNBC declined to comment.
It marks the first large-scale shake-up by MSNBC’s new president, Kutler, since she took over the liberal network earlier this month, as it looks to double down on its lefty agenda during the second Trump administration.
Well, bye. This is a lot less surprising than Norah O’Donnell getting the boot (but perhaps more surprising than, if what would seem to necessarily happen soon, Margaret Brennan getting a pink slip). People have wondered how much longer they were going to carry Joy Reid for quite a while.
The reaction to Reid’s ouster has nonetheless been fittingly unhinged. For example…
Now, media journalist Oliver Darcy reports Reid’s staff found out they were losing their jobs in a tense and emotional 30-minute impromptu meeting Sunday morning. Staffers were reportedly frustrated they learned about the show shutting down from media reports, rather than directly from leadership.
Reid has hosted a 7 p.m. show on the network since 2020. She had been with the company since 2014.
The network has also removed Alex Wagner from her weekday evening spot, and Darcy reports Kutler held a “similar” meeting with the show’s staff. However, Wagner is expected to stay with MSNBC as a contributor.
Now, many are mourning Reid’s departure.
“I owe the television part of my career to Joy Reid, as do so many other Black voices y’all never would have heard of if not for her,” journalist Elie Mystal wrote on X. “And *that’s* why she’s gone. They can treat black folks as interchangeable, but everybody Black knows that Joy was indispensable.”
Oh, and this is even better…
One-time MSNBC primetime host Keith Olbermann said that his former network’s reported firing of Joy Reid and cancelation of Alex Wagner’s nightly show was “racist,” noting that only four women of color have solo-hosted programs for the liberal cable news network — and all of them have been kicked to the curb.
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In addition to the network dropping Reid, new MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler is also expected to remove Wagner from the primetime lineup. Wagner was pulled from her Tuesday-Friday 9 p.m. slot after the inauguration when MSNBC convinced its top star Rachel Maddow to host five nights a week during President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office, a move which has helped the channel reverse its post-election ratings slump.
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Olbermann, once MSNBC’s biggest star before his acrimonious departure in 2011, laid into his former employers for booting Reid and Wagner during an early Monday morning podcast, claiming the left-leaning channel was sidelining women of color for “salespeople” who will do as they’re told.
“MSNBC fired Joy Reid, and yes it is racist and maybe worse. Yes, it is designed to keep out people who might think differently,” Olbermann declared. “And it is designed to reward professional political salespeople like ex-party chairmen and former press secretaries who will do what they are told by their bosses.”
He added: “But most of all, since they also fired Alex Wagner as they fired Joy Reid, at least yhe New York Times says this, it means that four women of color have solo hosted prominent shows on MSNBC, and all four of them have now been fired.”
Olbermann is screeching about Alex Wagner getting demoted? Seriously? Alex Wagner, who has been around at MSNBC since Olbermann had a show there and has never moved the ratings needle despite getting chance after chance?
And apparently, it’s racism that fired Reid and demoted Wagner, even though Reid’s show is still going to have one of a triumvirate of Goofballs of Color. Just like racism also fired Melissa Harris-Perry and Tiffany Cross, who had shows just as dumb as Reid’s. (RELATED: At MSNBC, Rising Tensions Fuel Fears of Collapse)
Does it sound like the Left is eating its own? Why yes, yes it does.
Keith Olbermann certainly didn’t stop to consider whether Joy Reid is the most effective early-prime spokescritter that his political movement could put on the air of its flagship cable news organ (it’s arguable whether that designation belongs to MSNBC or CNN, but CNN pleasures itself as “objective,” so go with me here if you don’t mind). That ought not to surprise you; after all, if Keith Olbermann was concerned with effective spokesmanship for his ideological position he wouldn’t say any of the ridiculous things he says.
And he might still have a job.
On the other hand, it’s probably a good idea not to judge him too harshly, because Olbermann isn’t the only talking head on the Left who is deep into the guano stash. There is this octogenarian weirdo… (RELATED: Democrats Have No Roadmap for Their Journey Through the Wilderness … and James Carville Knows It)
Political guru James Carville forecasted Donald Trump’s Administration will collapse within the next 30 days.
The veteran Democratic strategist told Mediaite’s Dan Abrams that Trump’s popularity is sinking, and he believes the administration will implode from a lack of public support.
“I believe that this administration, in less than 30 days, is in the midst of a massive collapse and particularly a collapse in public opinion,” Carville said.
“What I have said very publicly is that Democrats need to play possum. This whole thing is collapsing.
“It doesn’t need Elizabeth Warren and somebody screaming to pacify some progressive advocacy groups in Washington, which, by the way, I wish these people were just useless. They’re actually worse than useless, that they’re detrimental.”
He advised Democrats to lay low while the White House falls apart and predicted Republicans will find it difficult to pass any legislation and be forced to reach across the aisle for their support.
“It’s going to be easy pickings here in six weeks. Just lay back,” Carville said. “We’re in the midst of a collapse. It’s over.”
Carville doubled down on his previous statements that Democrats “do nothing” in response to Trump and Elon Musk’s takeover of the federal government.
He’s right in a small sense, which is that when the current Left/Democrat Party talking heads (including Carville, of course) begin running their mouths, the public’s reaction does tend to insulate the Trump administration from what otherwise might be a rejection. (RELATED: Dems Click Off MSNBC and Discover There’s No Place Like Home)
But a “collapse”? If they just shut up?
Not that likely. There is this…
???? NEW POLL: Americans’ trust of President Donald J. Trump versus trust of the media.
???? Trump: 44% (+15)
???? The media: 29%YouGov pic.twitter.com/eW7VlMOeMU
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 24, 2025
Katie Hopkins, who as a critic of the atrocious politicians in the U.K. actually has a very good read on the analogues on this side of the pond, took a measure of Carville’s bold predictions…
James Carville – “Just call me Nostradamus” says the Trump White House will collapse in 30 days.
Give it a break Skeletor. Your life expectancy‘ain’t 30 days long. #JamesCarville pic.twitter.com/QmvvkeLBbo
— Katie Hopkins (@KTHopkins) February 24, 2025
To watch the Democrats’ media-elite pundits and hosts lose their minds over the dismantling of their government scams and illegitimate revenue and power streams has been a once-in-a-lifetime pleasure. It’s also been quite illuminating, particularly for those of us who have suspected all along that these were puppets of a ruling class bent on imposing its will on a recalcitrant public over the past couple of decades.
We’re finding out that without the kultursmog (a brilliant term coined by our own R. Emmett Tyrell to describe the matrix of corrupt narratives laid down in mass media) pervading all public thought, there really isn’t much behind these people. And with the rays of sunlight now breaking through and forcing outlets like CBS News, MSNBC, and others to make existential decisions as they drown in a sea of red ink, it just gets more fun all the time.
There’s a collapse happening, all right. But contra Mr. Carville, whose own relevance is collapsing perhaps fastest of all, there’s no particular sign it’s Trump with that problem.
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