(For reader comfort, a picture of Joy Reid was replaced for obvious reasons with a picture of Gene Hackman looking for heroin in a car in The French Connection. If you must see a picture of Joy Reid, scroll down.)
MSNBC’s compelling reason to switch channels, cancel cable and move to Alaska, Joy Reid, is no more.
At least not on MSNBC.
Whoever owns MSNBC currently (Comcast, SpinCo, Baskin Robbins?) read the entrails, put them back in the fridge and decided that anything that replaces the angry hairless lady with something that doesn’t frighten small dogs and children will be an improvement. And decided to cancel the ReidOut or whatever it’s called.
Critics, including Keith Olbermann (ESPN, MSNBC, Current TV, YouTube, Your Streetcorner), and Elie Mystal, the only man on cable with even worse hair than Joy, accused MSBNC of racism.
“Of course MSNBC’s firing of Joy Reid was racist. They’ve only had four women of color host their own shows. They’ve now fired them ALL,” Olberman claimed in a tweet which beat Joy Reid’s last episode in the ratings.
Sure it might have had something to do with ReidOut losing 47% of its audience to what a viewer poll described as “literally anything else, even an infomercial about baking soy dog cookies”, but it’s probably racist.
In a fit of even greater racism, MSNBC is replacing Reid with Michael Steele, Symone Sanders Townsend, and Alicia Menendez, two of whom are officially black since Steele left the GOP, and two of whom have professionally worked in politics while Reid’s only experience in politics was ‘volunteering’ as an ‘organizer’ for the Obama campaign and being an internet troll. (To be fair this is like 90% of the resume in the media now.)
How or why Reid ended up as a public-facing journalist is a question that only MSNBC insiders can answer, but now she has many career options.
- Yelling at strangers in public parks
- Teaming up with Keith Olbermann to yell at strangers in public parks
- The View.
