Comments by "George H" (@georgeh6856) on "Rachel Maddow Rips Own Network After MSNBC Fires Joy Reid" video.
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Joy Ann Reid has been very good lately, which is probably a big part of why she got fired. But don't forget her past.
1. In the 2000s, Joy Ann Reid made homophobic and anti-trans comments on social media. Then when she got called out for it, she claimed her social media had been hacked and she had filed an FBI complaint. But when people used the Internet Archives to show that her social media could not have been hacked, she never talked about her supposed "FBI complaint" again.
2. In 2016, Joy Ann Reid said, "I don't think it can be Bernie Sanders because he is not a Democrat", when asked about who should lead the Dems against Trump.
3. In 2020, after Elizabeth Warren had baselessly claimed that Bernie Sanders told her in private that a woman cannot be president, Joy Ann Reid brought on a supposed "body language expert" to her show who then claimed that Bernie was lying when he firmly claimed that Warren's smear against Bernie was not true. Joy Ann Reid: “Bernie Sanders does have a sort of physicality when he talks that is a shaking your finger at Hillary Clinton, shaking your finger, shoving, his physicality makes me think yeah, he could have said ‘Listen I think in this environment a woman can’t win. That doesn’t seem like a crazy thing for him to say.” Grotesque of Joy Ann Reid to back up Elizabeth Warren's baseless smear of Bernie Sanders.
It's good that she finally came around. But she was one of the many media figures who bashed Bernie Sanders and therefore helped Donald Trump get elected.
Sources: The Humanist Report, Mediaite
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