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Joy Reid Blasts Mainstream Media for ‘Selling a Lie' About L.A.
Joy Reid Blasts Mainstream Media for ‘Selling a Lie' About L.A.

Yahoo

time12-06-2025

  • Politics
  • Yahoo

Joy Reid Blasts Mainstream Media for ‘Selling a Lie' About L.A.

Ex-MSNBC host Joy Reid is accusing the 'mainstream media' of 'helping' Donald Trump spread his narrative about what's happening in Los Angeles during the protests against his ICE raids. Not too long after losing her coveted primetime spot on MSNBC in February, Reid wrote in her 'A Daily Reid' Substack newsletter on Wednesday that 'the mainstream media at this point, is participating in selling a lie: that Los Angeles is so out of control, it's plausible that Trump would send in the military as an occupying stabilizing force.' The new podcast host said she and members of her 'Joy Reid Show' staff have been in L.A. since last Thursday, where she's gotten a different picture of the city than what's been portrayed. 'The lies the regime is telling about Los Angeles are easy to disprove. You just have to go to Los Angeles,' she wrote. 'Starting on Thursday, we were all over the city—from West Hollywood to downtown, including city hall.' All the former TV host and her team saw on the ground in L.A. was ICE 'terrorizing randomly selected brown people all over the state and making racial profiling great again,' she wrote, in order to meet 'MAGA Nosferatu's 3,000 brown person a day kidnap quota.' On Sunday, 'our photographer ventured into the belly of the downtown protests that followed day three of random, military-style ICE raids that took place all over Los Angeles County,' she wrote of the 'warlike operation' that made stops at unassuming places one normally wouldn't hope to find the violent criminals Trump said his raids would prioritize. The president deployed about 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 active-duty Marines to quell protests against the expansive ICE raids in the city over the weekend, even though mayor Karen Bass and California Governor Gavin Newsom insisted they were under control until the armed forces incited violence. Those reports have not deterred the president from escalating the White House's response to demonstrators, who he's called 'animals' and a 'foreign enemy.' 'Trump, Bondi, Hegseth,' and 'the puppy killer' Kristi Noem 'have created a fake, dystopian version of Los Angeles as a cheap excuse to launch a military occupation of California,' Reid went on, and are now threatening to 'use the Insurrection Act to put the whole country under martial law.' Helping his cause is 'dramatic media coverage,' Reid wrote, linking subscribers to CNN's dystopyian reports from on the ground. 'Mainstream journalists are even going so far as to casually inquire about the insurrection act,' she continued, 'which gives Pam Bondi the chance to do her Leni Riefenstahl act' in her comments to press Wednesday morning. Reid also quoted from Mayor Bass' comments to local outlet NBC4 on Tuesday, that 'those of us in Los Angeles understand that the unrest that has happened are a few blocks within the downtown area. It is not all of downtown, and it is not all of the city. Unfortunately, the visuals make it seem as though our entire city is in flames, and it is not the case at all.' L.A. is a 'perfectly normal, quiet city almost everywhere,' Reid concluded—and the 'the businesses Pam Bondi pretends to care about? The risk to them is not their own dish washers, cooks, clerks and construction workers. It's the Trump regime, that keeps kidnapping their employees. Maybe they should stop doing that. If they do, and withdraw their occupation forces, L.A. and the rest of California can go on about its business.'

Joy Reid floats speculation that her race, 'anxiety' surrounding Donald Trump played role in MSNBC firing
Joy Reid floats speculation that her race, 'anxiety' surrounding Donald Trump played role in MSNBC firing

Sky News AU

time04-06-2025

  • Entertainment
  • Sky News AU

Joy Reid floats speculation that her race, 'anxiety' surrounding Donald Trump played role in MSNBC firing

Ex-MSNBC host Joy Reid spoke out about her show being canceled on Monday, speculating that her race and network "anxiety" surrounding President Donald Trump played a role in her ultimately being fired from the liberal network. "I try not to speculate too much publicly because, again, I can't get inside the minds of other people. But I can tell you what other people have speculated about… There are lots of people at the network who are critical of Donald Trump. I mean, and they're still critical of him, I'm assuming, you know. So I don't think that's [it], but I do know there is a lot of anxiety both there and, I think, in every media. We're seeing it at CBS," she said, referring to Trump's lawsuit against the network over a "60 Minutes" interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris. Reid spoke with Katie Couric in a video posted on her Substack page and on her YouTube channel. Reid's MSNBC show was canceled earlier this year. "We're seeing it at ABC, where allegedly 'The View' hosts were told not to go so hard on Trump. There's a push for people to, hey, do less Trump. Do more entertainment. Don't be hard on him," the former MSNBC host said, noting reporting that ABC's "The View" hosts were told to tone down their political discussions. Couric pointed out that there was no difference between Reid and liberal hosts Nicolle Wallace or Rachel Maddow, to which Reid responded, "only in one way was I different. I'm a Black woman doing the thing." "I think that there is a difference for Trump in hearing the kinds of criticisms specifically out of a Black woman, it bothers him in a way it doesn't bother him like anything else. He's got this sort of tick about race, you know, and about, sort of criticism coming specifically from a Black woman because we've seen him lay out and dish out real abuse against Black women journalists," Reid said during her conversation with Couric. "I did a specific thing, which was, I tried to constantly unpack the racial history of the country, which is very much against the sort of Project 2025 thing. And it's something I can do in a certain capacity because of my background, because not only am I a Black woman, but I come from immigrant parents who come from what Donald Trump would consider s---hole countries, but that have a take on race that is different," Reid continued. Reid's show was replaced with "The WeekNight", an ensemble program featuring former Kamala Harris spokesperson Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Menendez, the daughter of disgraced former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, and Michael Steele, the former Republican National Committee chair who now staunchly opposes the GOP. MSNBC's new lineup has struggled in its first month, with Psaki shedding half the audience her predecessors averaged in the same timeslot, and with its other new programming struggling to attract viewers. MSNBC and ABC's "The View" did not immediately return requests for comment. Reid said prior to her show's cancellation, she was told that her show was "down less" in ratings than any other MSNBC show, aside from Maddow's. Reid and her former primetime colleagues faced a major ratings decline after Trump won the election. Her show, "The Reidout," shed 47% of its total audience, averaging just 759,000 viewers after averaging 1.4 million viewers throughout 2024 leading up to Election Day, "Our show was down less than any other primetime show. We were down, other than Rachel Maddow, we were down the least. So we were just told that we were holding on pretty well. And, you know, it's not like the ratings have gotten better since I've been gone. So I can tell you, honestly, I even had my exit interview and no one has told me why I was fired. I have no idea," she said. Reid said MSNBC's reasoning was "scripted" and "perfunctory," and explained that she had started being careful on social media. "We were being very careful, and I was trying to be more careful about anything on social media, because I know there was a real anxiety about social media, very much an anxiety about anything on social media," she said. "I don't know, I genuinely was not told." Fox News' Joseph Wulfsohn and Brian Flood contributed to this report. Originally published as Joy Reid floats speculation that her race, 'anxiety' surrounding Donald Trump played role in MSNBC firing

Joy Reid floats speculation that her race, 'anxiety' surrounding Trump played role in MSNBC firing
Joy Reid floats speculation that her race, 'anxiety' surrounding Trump played role in MSNBC firing

Yahoo

time03-06-2025

  • Entertainment
  • Yahoo

Joy Reid floats speculation that her race, 'anxiety' surrounding Trump played role in MSNBC firing

Ex-MSNBC host Joy Reid spoke out about her show being canceled on Monday, speculating that her race and network "anxiety" surrounding President Donald Trump played a role in her ultimately being fired from the liberal network. "I try not to speculate too much publicly because, again, I can't get inside the minds of other people. But I can tell you what other people have speculated about… There are lots of people at the network who are critical of Donald Trump. I mean, and they're still critical of him, I'm assuming, you know. So I don't think that's [it], but I do know there is a lot of anxiety both there and, I think, in every media. We're seeing it at CBS," she said, referring to Trump's lawsuit against the network over a "60 Minutes" interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris. Reid spoke with Katie Couric in a video posted on her Substack page and on her YouTube channel. Reid's MSNBC show was canceled earlier this year. "We're seeing it at ABC, where allegedly 'The View' hosts were told not to go so hard on Trump. There's a push for people to, hey, do less Trump. Do more entertainment. Don't be hard on him," the former MSNBC host said, noting reporting that ABC's "The View" hosts were told to tone down their political discussions. Jen Psaki, The Ex-biden Flack Who Defended His Mental Fitness, Launches Expanded Role At Msnbc Couric pointed out that there was no difference between Reid and liberal hosts Nicolle Wallace or Rachel Maddow, to which Reid responded, "only in one way was I different. I'm a Black woman doing the thing." Read On The Fox News App "I think that there is a difference for Trump in hearing the kinds of criticisms specifically out of a Black woman, it bothers him in a way it doesn't bother him like anything else. He's got this sort of tick about race, you know, and about, sort of criticism coming specifically from a Black woman because we've seen him lay out and dish out real abuse against Black women journalists," Reid said during her conversation with Couric. "I did a specific thing, which was, I tried to constantly unpack the racial history of the country, which is very much against the sort of Project 2025 thing. And it's something I can do in a certain capacity because of my background, because not only am I a Black woman, but I come from immigrant parents who come from what Donald Trump would consider s---hole countries, but that have a take on race that is different," Reid continued. Joy Reid Says Black Women No Longer Interested In 'Saving America' After Betrayal By White Female Voters Reid's show was replaced with "The WeekNight", an ensemble program featuring former Kamala Harris spokesperson Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Menendez, the daughter of disgraced former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, and Michael Steele, the former Republican National Committee chair who now staunchly opposes the GOP. MSNBC's new lineup has struggled in its first month, with Psaki shedding half the audience her predecessors averaged in the same timeslot, and with its other new programming struggling to attract viewers. MSNBC and ABC's "The View" did not immediately return requests for comment. Reid said prior to her show's cancellation, she was told that her show was "down less" in ratings than any other MSNBC show, aside from Maddow's. Reid and her former primetime colleagues faced a major ratings decline after Trump won the election. Click Here For More Coverage Of Media And Culture Her show, "The Reidout," shed 47% of its total audience, averaging just 759,000 viewers after averaging 1.4 million viewers throughout 2024 leading up to Election Day, "Our show was down less than any other primetime show. We were down, other than Rachel Maddow, we were down the least. So we were just told that we were holding on pretty well. And, you know, it's not like the ratings have gotten better since I've been gone. So I can tell you, honestly, I even had my exit interview and no one has told me why I was fired. I have no idea," she said. Reid said MSNBC's reasoning was "scripted" and "perfunctory," and explained that she had started being careful on social media. "We were being very careful, and I was trying to be more careful about anything on social media, because I know there was a real anxiety about social media, very much an anxiety about anything on social media," she said. "I don't know, I genuinely was not told." Fox News' Joseph Wulfsohn and Brian Flood contributed to this article source: Joy Reid floats speculation that her race, 'anxiety' surrounding Trump played role in MSNBC firing

Joy Reid floats speculation that her race, ‘anxiety' surrounding Trump played role in MSNBC firing
Joy Reid floats speculation that her race, ‘anxiety' surrounding Trump played role in MSNBC firing

New York Post

time03-06-2025

  • Business
  • New York Post

Joy Reid floats speculation that her race, ‘anxiety' surrounding Trump played role in MSNBC firing

Ex-MSNBC host Joy Reid spoke out about her show being canceled on Monday, speculating that her race and network 'anxiety' surrounding President Donald Trump played a role in her ultimately being fired from the liberal network. 'I try not to speculate too much publicly because, again, I can't get inside the minds of other people. But I can tell you what other people have speculated about… There are lots of people at the network who are critical of Donald Trump. I mean, and they're still critical of him, I'm assuming, you know. So I don't think that's [it], but I do know there is a lot of anxiety both there and, I think, in every media. We're seeing it at CBS,' she said, referring to Trump's lawsuit against the network over a '60 Minutes' interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris. Reid spoke with Katie Couric in a video posted on her Substack page and on her YouTube channel. Reid's MSNBC show was canceled earlier this year. 'We're seeing it at ABC, where allegedly 'The View' hosts were told not to go so hard on Trump. There's a push for people to, hey, do less Trump. Do more entertainment. Don't be hard on him,' the former MSNBC host said, noting reporting that ABC's 'The View' hosts were told to tone down their political discussions. Couric pointed out that there was no difference between Reid and liberal hosts Nicolle Wallace or Rachel Maddow, to which Reid responded, 'only in one way was I different. I'm a Black woman doing the thing.' 'I think that there is a difference for Trump in hearing the kinds of criticisms specifically out of a Black woman, it bothers him in a way it doesn't bother him like anything else. He's got this sort of tick about race, you know, and about, sort of criticism coming specifically from a Black woman because we've seen him lay out and dish out real abuse against Black women journalists,' Reid said during her conversation with Couric. 3 Joy Reid, the ex-MSNBC host of 'The ReidOut,' claims that her race, along with President Trump's presence, played a role in her being let go by the liberal network. 'I did a specific thing, which was, I tried to constantly unpack the racial history of the country, which is very much against the sort of Project 2025 thing. And it's something I can do in a certain capacity because of my background, because not only am I a Black woman, but I come from immigrant parents who come from what Donald Trump would consider s—hole countries, but that have a take on race that is different,' Reid continued. Reid's show was replaced with 'The WeekNight', an ensemble program featuring former Kamala Harris spokesperson Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Menendez, the daughter of disgraced former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, and Michael Steele, the former Republican National Committee chair who now staunchly opposes the GOP. MSNBC's new lineup has struggled in its first month, with Psaki shedding half the audience her predecessors averaged in the same timeslot, and with its other new programming struggling to attract viewers. 3 Reid spoke with Katie Couric in a video posted on her Substack and YouTube channel, explaining how President Trump and her race led to her being fired. AP MSNBC and ABC's 'The View' did not immediately return requests for comment. Reid said prior to her show's cancellation, she was told that her show was 'down less' in ratings than any other MSNBC show, aside from Maddow's. Reid and her former primetime colleagues faced a major ratings decline after Trump won the election. Her show, 'The Reidout,' shed 47% of its total audience, averaging just 759,000 viewers after averaging 1.4 million viewers throughout 2024 leading up to Election Day, 3 Reid told Couric specifically, 'I think that there is a difference for Trump in hearing the kinds of criticisms specifically out of a Black woman, it bothers him in a way it doesn't bother him like anything else.' Substack/@joyannreid 'Our show was down less than any other primetime show. We were down, other than Rachel Maddow, we were down the least. So we were just told that we were holding on pretty well. And, you know, it's not like the ratings have gotten better since I've been gone. So I can tell you, honestly, I even had my exit interview and no one has told me why I was fired. I have no idea,' she said. Reid said MSNBC's reasoning was 'scripted' and 'perfunctory,' and explained that she had started being careful on social media. 'We were being very careful, and I was trying to be more careful about anything on social media, because I know there was a real anxiety about social media, very much an anxiety about anything on social media,' she said. 'I don't know, I genuinely was not told.' Fox News' Joseph Wulfsohn and Brian Flood contributed to this report.

Trump flaunts deported violent illegal aliens with mugshot posters on White House lawn and more top headlines
Trump flaunts deported violent illegal aliens with mugshot posters on White House lawn and more top headlines

Fox News

time28-04-2025

  • Politics
  • Fox News

Trump flaunts deported violent illegal aliens with mugshot posters on White House lawn and more top headlines

1. Trump puts deported violent illegals' mug shots on White House lawn 2. Over 100 illegal immigrants arrested in massive raid 3. Packed ferry ride turns deadly after getting struck by boat 'DRILL BABY, DRILL' – After 100 days in the White House, Americans say what they want President Trump to focus on next. Continue reading … SEEING RED – US adversary's billion-dollar footprint 50 miles off Florida raises alarm, expert warns. Continue reading … PROPERTY WARS – Greenland's prime minister says whether island can be bought as Trump floats big purchase. Continue reading … LOCKED UP – Second suspect arrested in connection to DHS Secretary Noem's purse snatching. Continue reading … ROUGHING THE PASSER – Prank caller behind NFL draft day controversy with Shedeur Sanders identified. Continue reading … -- 'TROUBLEMAKERS' – Trump says 'disruptors' at GOP town hall events should be 'immediately ejected.' Continue reading … 'PELOSI ACT' – Republican pushes ban on lawmakers from trading stocks while in office. Continue reading … 'SIMPLY NOT READY' – REAL ID rollout could cause national headache, state lawmaker warns. Continue reading … REPORT CARD – Mike Johnson praises Trump's first 100 days: More than most leaders 'accomplish in their entire lifetimes.' Continue reading … HISTORY LESSON – Ex-MSNBC host Joy Reid claims Roman Empire fell because of no diversity, warns US will be next. Continue reading … 'RELENTLESSLY HOSTILE' – ABC, NBC and CBS hit Trump with 92% negative coverage: study. Continue reading … 'RIGHT FOR THE AUDIENCE' – '60 Minutes' calls out corporate owner Paramount on the air, says producer who quit felt interfered with. Continue reading … 'SOMETHING HEROIC' – NYT columnist calls arrested judge's actions 'civil obedience.' Continue reading … CAROL ROTH – Trump should meet with Main Street businessmen. They deserve it. Continue reading … BOBBY JINDAL & NEWT GINGRICH – The American people will support Medicaid reform. Here's why. Continue reading … -- SCARY SCENE – Police release video of the moments before deadly clash with wife of rock band bassist. Continue reading … MAKING THE TEAM – Shedeur Sanders enters crowded quarterback room as he starts NFL career. Continue reading … AMERICAN CULTURE QUIZ – Test yourself on equestrian events, flag facts and famous food. Take the quiz here … SMACKDOWN – WWE star uses fan's prosthetic leg to beat down opponent during title match. Continue reading … TRUCKIN'– After personal loss, woman sells home and sees the world from her truck. See video … GEN Z VOTERS – Breaking down Trump's first 100 days in office. See video … GREGG JARRETT – WI protesters backing arrested judge are 'oblivious and obtuse.' See video … What's it looking like in your neighborhood? Continue reading… Thank you for making us your first choice in the morning! We'll see you in your inbox first thing Tuesday.

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