“It really is remarkable the degree to which she is just a complete DNC creature,” Media Research Center analyst Bill D’Agostino says of Reid’s work at the liberal cable news channel.
Everyone at MSNBC seems to quote Democratic Party talking points, even the network’s so-called Republicans, but D’Agostino says Reid was among the most dedicated and predictable voices who never criticized their political party and its leaders.
“She might as well have Nancy Pelosi sitting there controlling the teleprompter,” he says.
Reid’s firing couldn’t go unmentioned by the Media Research Center, which has documented her outrageous comments over the years. The media watchdog published what it called a “tiny but staggering” list of her best worst moments on MSNBC, 19 news segments in all, after learning of her firing. Many of those segments focus on race and Republicans, which seemed to be an obsession with Reid through the years.
“What is going on with Republicans that they seem to be bringing back the lynching vibe?” she asked during a 2023 show.
Other clips flagged by MRC showed her obsession with comparing Republicans, especially Donald Trump, to Nazis and fascism.
“Similarities to what happened in Germany, and what’s happening now in America, are just undeniable,” she told her audience last month after Trump’s inauguration.
Sometimes Reid combined both topics, race and white supremacy, such as an infamous segment from June 2017. That was when a gunman had opened fire on GOP lawmakers, who were practicing for the congressional softball game. The gun shots from an SKS rifle struck one of them, Rep. Steve Scalise, in the stomach and nearly killed him.
On her show, Reid smoothly pivoted from sympathy for the wounded Republican lawmaker – everybody hopes he recovers – to suggesting Scalise “has a history, that we’ve all been forced to sort of ignore, on race.”
Despite that segment, which criticized the voting record of a wounded congressman recovering in a hospital, Reid would continue with MSNBC for 7 ½ more years.
AFN has reached out to Rep. Scalise’s office for comment about Reid’s firing.
After Reid cried this week while describing her firing, many pointed out how Reid had mocked the "white tears" of white people over the years.
Asked by AFN to comment about Reid's firing, Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice says she wasn't surprised by the news. Justice appeared on Reid's show last year to defend her group's push to ban sexually graphic books from school libraries. Hoping to make Justice sound like a Nazi book banner, Reid said Justice is no "expert" and insisted parents approve of the books. Reid also continually interrupted her.
"I knew that Joy’s show was doomed to end when she tried so desperately to defend graphic sexual content for children in schools," Justice says. "She is truly out of touch with the American people."
In a humorous X post, conservative black comedian Terrence K. Williams happily watched Reid’s teary-eyed defense of her show while eating his “Cousin T’s” pancakes. In the post he called her a “disgrace to the American people” and called her a female version of Barack Obama.
In a podcast interview with Megyn Kelly about Reid’s firing, political historian Victor David Hanson said Reid was a light weight intellectually in an industry of smart people. That is why she relied on the race issue so much, he said, but the Nov. 5 election showed black voters aren’t being persuaded by her race-based views.
“She wasn’t just an entertainer. She was a hate-monger,” Hanson observed. “And she’s done a lot of damage, and she’s brought it on herself.”
“Totally,” Kelly replied. “I have zero sympathy for her.”
