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Fired MSNBC host Joy Reid blamed Jews for spreading COVID, ex-staffer, free to unload secrets, says

March 3, 2025 | | Print Article

Recently canceled MSNBC host Joy Reid blamed Orthodox Jews for spreading COVID across New York City in a shockingly anti-Semitic rant, one of her former staffers revealed.

The bombshell claim about Reid’s bigotry only validates the troubled cable network’s decision to cut ties with the “Reid Out” host who was jettisoned as MSNBC’s new president. Rebecca Kutler overhauls the lineup in advance of the coming spin-off by parent company Comcast.

The “race lady” railed against the ultra-religious Jews during a summer 2020 call, saying that they “only care about themselves” and declaring that they are “in their own bubble,” the ex-staffer who worked as a production assistant at the network told the New York Post.

“They’re the reason why COVID is spreading across New York,” the former production assistant recalled Reid saying with nobody on the morning call challenging her. “They don’t care about COVID or spreading it to others.”

“I was shocked she called out a group and generalized them,” the ex-staffer, who is Jewish, added. She told the post that what was even more shocking than the host’s expression of anti-Semitic sentiment was that the “other people on the call went along with it as if it’s a normal thing to say.”

Unfortunately, hating on Jews IS “normal” for much of the Democratic Party’s base, including much of Reid’s audience.

“No one called her out [saying] ‘Maybe we shouldn’t generalize.’ Imagine if you said that about any other group of people – even if it were true – saying that any other group didn’t care about COVID?” She told the Post concerning the call, which included about 20 members of the production team.

“I remember feeling shocked – shocked by her ignorance and how antisemitic it sounded,” she said.

The young staffer was too “intimidated” to speak up during the meeting but later in the day sent a Slack message to her boss about the “100 percent antisemitic” comments that left her deeply concerned, sharing the messages with the Post.

She asked her boss, then then-Senior Producer Lorena Ruiz, to consider “collective responsibility” since many Orthodox Jews were “part of the many doctors creating the COVID guidelines and restrictions, and risking their lives every day to treat COVID patients,” according to the outlet, to which her superior replied that she had a “good point.”

“Joy can be very careless with her language,” she wrote in the message seen by the paper, adding, “Luckily, she is generally better on air than on the calls,” and then thanked the former production assistant for “bringing it up,”

That Reid, who is a virulently anti-white racist, would also have disdain for Jews didn’t come as a surprise to X users.

The former production assistant is speaking out now that Reid’s been given the boot because she believes that “people should know what her character is.”

After Reid was fired, the ex-staffer said that she emailed Kutler to express her “sense of relief” after personally witnessing the former host’s “deeply troubling behavior, particularly her vile antisemitism.”

“All these years, I never spoke up about it, except to my closest friends and family,” she regretfully said. “I always felt like it was something heavy on my chest.”

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