Joy Reid was, by far, the worst on-air personality at MSNBC. Her show’s dwindling popularity was rivaled only by its lack of honesty, amounting to nothing but a nightly screech-fest against white people, fascism, President Donald Trump, and white people.

Rachel Maddow, who pushes the same conspiratorial nonsense as Reid with slightly more subtly and far more elitist arrogance, was supposedly appalled by Reid’s unseating at the network, taking time on Monday evening to address the “changes” at MSNBC.

“I am 51 years old. I have been gainfully employed since I was 12. And I have had so many different kinds of jobs, you wouldn’t believe me if I told you. But in all of the jobs I have had, in all of the years I have been alive, there is no colleague for whom I have had more affection and more respect than Joy Reid,” she said. “I love everything about her. I have learned so much from her. I have so much more to learn from her.”

“I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC, and personally, I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door,” she continued. “It is not my call, and I understand that, but that’s what I think.” 

Maddow went on to describe the network’s cancellation of shows of “two non-white hosts” as “unnerving.”

“That feels indefensible, and I do not defend it,” she said.

Given her outrage, did the oh-so-principled Rachel Maddow offer her resignation in protest of the indefensible racism that has infected the halls of MSNBC? Of course not. I guess $25 million a year just tastes too good.

Despite the shameless virtue-signaling of Maddow as she accepts tens of millions of dollars from the same people she has now labeled as indefensible racists, the truth about Reid’s ouster is simple: She was fired because she is an unpopular and irrational commentator who happens to be a black woman. Unpopular and irrational people don’t have a God-given right to media fame and fortune simply because of their skin color, and only racists believe otherwise.

Beyond Reid’s much-deserved descent into irrelevance, there’s another cause for celebration here: These journalists still haven’t learned their lesson. Even as MSNBC hemorrhages viewers like they’re dollars in the United States’s Social Security fund, it is sticking to the one strategy that got it here: an out-of-touch obsession with race.

Trump’s victory in November’s election should have been a wake-up call to left-wing media that people have moved on from the post-2020 cult-like attitude toward the various -isms that caused former President Joe Biden and his administration to crash and burn. It’s hardly a subtle indication that has been missed by other institutions.

MSNBC’S CHRIS HAYES MOURNS ‘DEVASTATING’ FIRING OF JOY REID AMID NETWORK SHAKE-UP

Jeff Bezos certainly got the message, announcing that the Washington Post’s opinion pages will support and defend personal liberties and free markets. How times have changed.

But as long as hacks such as Rachel Maddow and her network of pro-communist, pro-terrorist, and anti-freedom propagandists refuse to catch up with the rest of the country, their precipitous decline will continue. Let’s hope they keep ignoring the writing on the wall.

Ian Haworth is a syndicated columnist, speaker, and podcast host. You can find him on Substack and follow him on X at @ighaworth.