Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Virginia Kruta.
MSNBC may be dropping Joy Reid's daily show
"The Reidout" at the end of February, but a wide selection of the far-left host's hot takes will live forever on the internet.
With just days to go before Reid is replaced by a trio of leftists - Symone Sanders-Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez - here are a few of the hottest of Reid's hot takes from recent years.
That time she claimed that Joe Biden surviving COVID was no less bada** than Donald Trump surviving an assassination attempt.
"These two men are both elderly. Donald Trump is an elderly man who for whatever reason was given nine seconds to take a ... iconic photo op during an active shooter situation - weird situation, we'll figure that out one day," Reid began.
"But his survival of that, and bouncing right back and going right to his convention is being conveyed in the media world as a sign of strength," she continued.
"This current President of the United States is 81 years old and has COVID. Should he be fine in a couple of days, doesn't that convey exactly the same thing? That he's strong enough - older than Trump - to have gotten something that used to really be fatal to people his age. So if he does fine out of it and comes back and he rallies, isn't that exactly the same?"
Then there was the time she scolded minorities who supported Trump, claiming that they signed up for the
"humiliation" that came with being in his orbit.
"Part of the price of MAGAdom, particularly if you are a person of color is to take the humiliation, you know? I mean, Nikki Haley was not even invited, she was ostentatiously disinvited from this convention. Yet, she still said, 'I pledge all my delegates to Trump,'" Reid said.
"Tim Scott humiliated himself daily and then has continued to do so on this stage. I am stunned. And sad for him in the display he just did. But the humiliation of Tim Scott is part of the game and it's part of the price," she added, arguing that they also allowed Trump to
"abuse" their communities.
"Marco Rubio has been allowing himself to be humiliated by Donald Trump since he drank the tiny water bottle. Like, he's never going to stop letting Trump humiliate him."
Who could forget the time she complained that Trump got a PR boost from getting shot during the rally in Butler, PA.
Demanding that the media stand up and
"be the guardians of memory," she fretted that the shooting would
"allow Donald Trump, as he's you know bathed in the glory and grandeur of his party to rewrite himself as both a hero and a victim that people who are the most vulnerable to not just the things he's done but the things he's promising to do, and that that will happen without a guardian saying wait, stop, and then the media will acquiesce to this rewrite."
She not only bought into the notion that the legal cases against Trump would be what ended his political career, but was convinced that they were evidence of
"racially-based vengeance."
"But for me, there is something wonderfully poetic about the fact ... the first person to actually criminally prosecute Donald Trump is a black Harvard grad," Reid said.
"The very kind of person that his former staff, the people who worked for him, Steven Miller, etc., want to never be at Harvard Law School. But he was. And he came out and graduated, and he's prosecuting you, Donald."
Reid went on to reference Willis in Georgia and New York Attorney General Letitia James, noting their roles in other cases against the former president.
"And a black woman is doing that same exact thing in Georgia and a black woman forced you to pay a $175 million fine," she added.
"Donald Trump is being held to account by the very multicultural, multiracial democracy that he's trying to dismantle. ... It says something good about our country that we're still capable of having that happen. Go, DEI. My DEIs are bringing it home."
She even compared calls to protect the southern border to the old south's resistance to racial integration.
Reid complained that Republicans had the ability to come up with a real solution to the illegal immigration problem, but
"they just refuse to do it because many Republicans now see calling for zero tolerance on the border as the only way to animate their base."
She concluded the thought by claiming that Texas Republicans sounded
"like the old southerners who said that we will resist integration by any means necessary."
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