MSNBC host Rachel Maddow is none too pleased about her best buddy, Joy Reid, being booted from the network. Reid joins a rather lengthy list of liberal talking heads on major news networks that has been forced to walk the plank since President Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election.
The last episode of Reid’s program, “The ReidOut,” which first began in 2020, aired on Monday. Then, when it was time for Maddow’s show, the host took a few moments to heap praise on her former colleague.
“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. 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. It is not my call, and I understand that,” Maddow stated during her monologue.
She then seemingly suggested that the executives’ decision to hand Reid her pink slip is totally indefensible.
“I will tell you, it is also unnerving to see that on a network where we’ve got two, count them, two non-white hosts in prime time, both of our non-white hosts in prime time are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. And that feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them. That feels indefensible. And I do not defend it,” she added during the segment.
“Maddow also lamented how the MSNBC staffers who worked on the canceled shows will most likely be out of a job,” Blaze Media wrote.
“Dozens of producers and staffers, including some who are among the most experienced and most talented and most specialist producers in the building, are facing being laid off. They’re being invited to reapply for new jobs. … It kind of drops the bottom out of whether or not people feel like this is a good place to work. And so we don’t generally do things that way,” she further elaborated.
The host then hinted at lower ratings and the rise in popularity of both conservative and independent media during Trump’s second term when saying that this “is a difficult time in the news business, but it does not need to be this difficult.”
Of course, when it comes to the rubber meeting the road, Maddow didn’t say a word about truly abiding by her principles and leaving the network to stand in solidarity with her alleged best friend. In a room full of self-righteous, indignant shouting, money talks the loudest, doesn’t it?
“Before her final show on Monday, Reid broke down in tears during a video because she thought her show ‘had value.’ She said she has no regrets about her extreme rhetoric toward Christians, conservatives, and the MAGA movement,” the report concluded.
That last little bit right there is what cost Reid her dream job. Guess she’s too blind and stubborn to see reality.
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