MSNBC’s ReidOut Hosting Joy Reid has made the demonization and other-izing of conservatives and Republicans her cause celebre, so, for Thursday’s installment, she and a team of guests painted non-leftists as supporters of being terrorists using Covid to commit mass murder and having a “right” School board members who are opposed to the idea of physical harm will be fired “history and democracy” Attracting supporters to your pitch with their likeness “ISIS recruitment videos.”
Who was Reid able to identify as leaders in a terrorist group that needs to be stopped? Fox News host Tucker Carlson Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)Virginia Republican candidate for governor Glenn Youngkin
Reid immediately launched into a tirade off the top about how, “if you took a snapshot of the country,” you’d see the American right “tak[ing] aim at every civic and cultural institution, from whether we live or die from Covid to our schools and history and democracy itself, banning books, senators defending Nazi salutes and unhinged anti-vax protests at school boards.”
She also spoke out against Carlson’s upcoming documentary series on January 6 and called it proof he’s “going full Alex Jones,” which was ironic considering the fact that, as NewsBusters readers will realize, she herself has served as perhaps the more fitting embodiment of Jones with night after night of conspiracy theories.
Teasing what would be a rant about Carlson’s special, Reid admittedly tried to strike fear in her audience, likely trying to cause viewers to fear and hate anyone and everyone they know who votes GOP, whether it be colleagues, family members, or neighbors:
The Halloween season is fast approaching and there’s a scary creature in the midst of us. There are far-right elements within the Republican Party that are slowly creeping into the mainstream. You aren’t scared yet. You ought to.
Reid continued using Carlson’s controversial special as a foil for any and all conservatives and their persuasions: “Tucker is the main actor teaching the right how to normalize fascism, white nationalism, and white supremacy and now he is priming easily at least a third of this country’s adult population to go all in on this radical rewrite of January 6.”
She went onto have a second segment using January 6 as proof of what the right would do with any issue, including education, implying that Youngkin supporters want to murder school board members (click “expand”):
They aren’t just saying it loudly anymore. It’s being shouted from all directions. Continue reading about the GOP’s support for violent ultra-nationalism. The break. Please stay with us.
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One of the guests on Tuckums’s show last night shortly after he unveiled his propaganda to rewrite the January 6 insurrection was Glenn Youngkin, the Republican candidate for governor of Virginia. The new poster child for the Republicans’ current twisted priority of banning books when they’re not trying to reenact Fahrenheit 451. Republicans continue to be confused by the Justice Department’s attempt to shield school board members from violence due to race-conscious lessons or mask rules. Ted Cruz proved once more that there was no bottom in his run for the Absolute Worst nomination at a Senate hearing.
Eric Swalwell, D-CA (Congressman) and Chinese honeypot enthusiast was pleased to oblige. He stated without any evidence that Republicans were “defending the violence that many are taking against school board members”Worse, they may even believe it “not only have a right to go to the school board, but they have a right to go there and incite and threaten violence against people making decisions about our kids’ education and Ted Cruz is cool with it.”
It’s easy to casually accuse any person with an R beside their name of supporting the crime. That’s cool.
Cynthia Miller-Idriss at American University was Reid’s next victim. She said that Youngkin and his party were the reason Reid left. “normalizing and rubbing elbows with open white nationalism, white replacement theory, some really dangerous ideologies that are designed to whip up, you know, particularly white men” to do harm (click “expand”):
REID: When you have norm core supposedly Republicans like Glenn Youngkin, who is running in Virginia, people like Ted Cruz who used to be, you know ‘I’m a fiscal conservative., That used to be his thing. ‘I’m a constitutional conservative.’ But they’re now normalizing and rubbing elbows with open white nationalism, white replacement theory, some really dangerous ideologies that are designed to whip up, you know, particularly white men and working class white men, non-college white men. Then you get one of those white working-class men or people who don’t even know their class, show up to an event and ask when we can start killing. I don’t understand why anyone is so surprised. But are you shocked that we’re here?
MILLER-IDRISS : Thank you for being here. It feels good to be back. It is great to be with you. You know, I think what we’re seeing here is under the guise of free speech, a lot of the veneer of kind of respectability that — that — that mainstream politicians and — and — and mainstream news platforms carry, you have actually now Holocaust minimization happening, and you have real mainstreaming and legitimization of very extreme kinds of concepts.
Speaking of priming, Reid kept priming her viewers with more conspiracies about how the right was increasingly in control of “determin[ing] who wins elections” and led by “the farthest right people.”
Swalwell agreed and ironically said that, if someone at MSNBC paid homage to al-Qaeda, Reid would do the right thing and “resign.”
Before going to Miller-Idriss to close things out, Reid said Carlson’s video to inflame the right was similar to “these ISIS recruitment videos” and behavior from “terrorists” that she “used to” see in that “they showed lots of action…and they were designed to draw a certain kind of man, a sort of incel-type of young man who was frustrated by whatever was happening in his life and get them to come for the action.”
Reid’s dangerous characterization of over 70 million Americans as terrorists was made possible thanks to the endorsement and support of advertisers such as Liberty Mutual, Safelite, Tractor Supply Co., and Uber Eats. Follow the links to see their contact information at the MRC’s Conservatives Fight Back page.
You can view the MSNBC transcript of October 28th by clicking here.
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