Sticking to her schtick, MSNBC’s in-house race-baiter lamented “birthered” Nikki Haley’s Iowa loss alongside her fellow panelists’ meltdowns.
As corporate media analyzed the election results from Monday’s caucus, even as some reportedly had yet to cast a vote, Joy Reid demonstrated how pre-baked the talking points were when her chance to weigh in spoke to “the elephant in the room.”
“She’s still a brown lady that’s gotta try to win in a party that is deeply anti-immigrant and which accepts the notion that you can say immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country,” decried the host of “The Reid Out” as it became apparent former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley would finish in a distant third behind former President Donald Trump and fall short of surpassing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for second.
“She’s getting, you know, ‘birthered’ by Donald Trump and I don’t care how much the donor class likes her, which will ramp up a lot the better she does in New Hampshire,” Reid continued, peppering in the caveat that the former diplomat’s campaign did not resonate well with average GOP voters, “so it’s still a challenge.”
Joy Reid of MSNBC says Nikki Haley lost Iowa because of racism pic.twitter.com/ufeGOM5ua6
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 16, 2024
Further straying from the candidates’ respective records to push identity politics, the MSNBC host contended, “I don’t see how she becomes the nominee of that party with Donald Trump still around. I can’t picture it happening. Maybe it could happen. Ron DeSantis’ only argument for staying in it is he’s the white guy, that he can still make the appeal to white evangelicals.”
The one-trick pony had blamed white Christians writ large elsewhere in the night when she bemoaned, “This is a state that is over-represented by white Christians that are going to participate in these caucuses, especially tonight.”
Joy Reid of MSNBC is complaining because there are too many white Christians in Iowa pic.twitter.com/yLqFdZeZzU
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 16, 2024
Hardly alone in seeking a safe space while reacting to the results, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow polished her spiel denying the overreach from President Joe Biden’s administration to continue framing Trump as a modern-day Adolf Hitler.
“The big picture takeaway from that, and I don’t mean to be again, too dark as you said on this…if we are worried about the rise of authoritarianism in this country, we are worried about potential rise of fascism in this country, if we’re worried about our democracy falling to an authoritarian and potentially fascist form of government, the leader who is trying to do that is part of that equation,” she said before misrepresenting and maligning voters in support of Trump. “But people wanting that is a much bigger part of that equation.”
Their tears only make the Iowa results that much better pic.twitter.com/7ycE33uuq1
— Mostly Peaceful Memes (@MostlyPeacefull) January 16, 2024
As has been MSNBC’s wont throughout the Trump campaign, when it came time for the president to speak they decided to be the arbiter’s of what might be noteworthy from his victory speech and opted against airing it live.
MSNBC host @maddow says NBC and other mainstream news networks have decided not to show Trump’s victory speech. CNN had him on briefly but then cut away and replaced him with @jaketapper who says “caucus goers believe the lie.” pic.twitter.com/dnUHEB1wqH
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) January 16, 2024
Complaints from the on-air personalities were matched by social media users who called out the coverage as they saw it, “They hate Christians, we all know it. The @FBI has made this very apparent. I know they read these, hey guys…”
Others pointed out, “There are also too many racist leftists on MSNBC.”
They hate Christians, we all know it.
The @FBI has made this VERY apparent.
I know they read these, hey guys
— Joshua Walker (@RedsRepair95) January 16, 2024
There are also too many racist leftists on MSNBC.
— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) January 16, 2024
It’s always about race with these people.
They are the most racist people on the planet.— One Bad Dude (@Dorf73256527) January 16, 2024
Let them keep blaming half of the country and not analyse why he is popular
— Koka (@venkatesh_koka) January 16, 2024
Rachel Maddie- “One of the political parties is flirting with facist extremism.”
Is she talking about the party that supports states butchering kids against their parents will?
Or the one trying to keep us out of world war 3….
— Uncommon Sense (@Uncommonsince76) January 16, 2024
They are so disconnected
— ☠️⚡️ (@idougiegaming) January 16, 2024
When everything is considered racism nothing is. pic.twitter.com/bs6ZTPuan3
— Planet Of Memes (@PlanetOfMemes) January 16, 2024
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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