NB’s Houck Hammers ‘Sophomoric’ Joy Reid as Media Low-Light

Appearing Fox News @ Night early Friday morning, NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck identified far-left MSNBC host Joy Reid’s “stupid and sophomoric” accusation that conservative Supreme Court justices are “fine” with supposed GOP efforts “to hurt black people” as a media low-light of the week. The Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Henry pressing Jen Psaki regarding Biden’s drug policy was also highlighted.   

“We’re beginning a new segment here on Fox News @ Night tonight where a couple of our media experts take a hard look at what the mainstream media outlets got right and wrong in their coverage of this week’s news,” anchor Shannon Bream explained as she introduced Houck and The Hill’s media opinion columnist Joe Concha.

Houck picked Reid to be his media low-light. Reid, along with one of her most favorite unhinged Leftists launched into a racist tirade Wednesday night on her Wednesday Night Show.

JOY REID: The five judicial right-wing horsemen of the Maga-pocalypse decided that it is fine for Alabama to gerrymander to hurt black people so long as they don’t explicitly say race.

ELIE MYSTAL [THE NATION JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT]This isn’t Jim Crow. This is Jim Crow. This is how the Court did it back in the Jim Crow era.

After the soundbite, Houck observed: “I mean, if it weren’t so – such a serious topic and such a serious network where people actually listen to Joy Reid and Elie Mystal, we would be able to mock it and dismiss it as really just stupid and sophomoric.” He added: “But, you know, again this is an example of what Joy Reid and Elie Mystal and the rest of the news media think about tens of millions of people who simply don’t vote the way that they do.”

Houck also pointed out Reid’s recent laughable assertion that she’s a journalist: “You know, this is what you come to expect from Joy Reid, who just that same day said in The Washington Post that she’s a journalist because she works for MSNBC, which is attached to NBC News. So really the jokes in that case write themselves.”

“But again it is such a serious topic because she engages in such incendiary rhetoric day after day,” Houck warned.

At the top of the segment, Houck revealed FNC’s Heinrich as his media highlight of the week:

I picked it because Jacqui Heinrich, like Peter Doocy and a number of other reporters in the briefing room, do a really good job of asking really respectful questions where it’s give and take with Jen Psaki. They’ll ask the question, Jen Psaki answers. And that’s really how the briefing room should go. It’s such a refreshing departure from the sophomoric and utter nonsense we saw for the last four years with some folks from CNN during the Trump years.

Bream replied: “We are big fans of our reporters over there in the White House and what they’re getting done.”

Below is the transcript from her February 11th appearance.

12:12 PM ET

SHANNON BREAM: We’re beginning a new segment here on Fox News @ Night tonight where a couple of our media experts take a hard look at what the mainstream media outlets got right and wrong in their coverage of this week’s news. So let’s bring in NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck and The Hill media opinion columnist, Fox News contributor Joe Concha. It’s great to have you tonight, Gentlemen.

CURTIS HOCK: Shannon, it’s good to have you around.

JOE CONCHA – Shannon, good to see you. Have a happy Friday.

BREAM: Okay, so – yes, we call it Fri-yay here. It is indeed on the east coast. So I’m going to accept that.

Curtis! I’m going to begin with you. Here’s your highlight. It involves a familiar face for Fox people.

JACQUI HEINRICH [FNC WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT]Could you please clarify that they were not part of this kit, or they were removed as a result of this reporting and the pushback.

JEN PSAKI That was false reporting. It was inaccurate reporting. We needed to clarify that.

HEINRICH : What are the contents of the safe-smoking kits?

PSAKI: This safe-smoking kit could contain lip balm and alcohol swabs to encourage hygiene and lower the spread of HIV/hepatitis.

Curtis: This is about whether federal tax dollars would be used to purchase crack pipes. Why’d you pick it?

HOUCK: Yeah, I picked it because Jacqui Heinrich, like Peter Doocy and a number of other reporters in the briefing room, do a really good job of asking really respectful questions where it’s give and take with Jen Psaki. They’ll ask the question, Jen Psaki answers. And that’s really how the briefing room should go. It’s such a refreshing departure from the sophomoric and utter nonsense we saw for the last four years with some folks from CNN during the Trump years.

BREAM: We are big fans of our reporters over there in the White House and what they’re getting done.

(…)

12:00:17 ET

BREAM: Ok, Curtis. Now to the low-light. Joy Reid, and her company. Let’s see what you think.

JOY REID: The five judicial right-wing horsemen of the Maga-pocalypse decided that it is fine for Alabama to gerrymander to hurt black people so long as they don’t explicitly say race.

ELIE MYSTAL [THE NATION JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT]This isn’t Jim Crow. This is Jim Crow. This was what the Court did during Jim Crow.

BREAM

HOUCK: Yeah, I mean, if it weren’t so – such a serious topic and such a serious network where people actually listen to Joy Reid and Elie Mystal, we would be able to mock it and dismiss it as really just stupid and sophomoric. But, you know, again this is an example of what Joy Reid and Elie Mystal and the rest of the news media think about tens of millions of people who simply don’t vote the way that they do.

Joy Reid said the exact same thing in that very day. The Washington Post that she’s a journalist because she works for MSNBC, which is attached to NBC News. In that instance, the jokes really do write themselves.

Because she continues to engage in incendiary discourse day after day, it’s a really serious subject. But thankfully no one really watches MSNBC, but in her case, it’s good for her, because, you know, there’s a ceiling – there’s a floor below them, and it’s CNN, which is losing to crazy shows like Moonshiners and my 600-pound life instead of, you know, anything else.

CONCHA: That’s a good show, Curtis, come on.

BREAM: Hey listen, don’t hate on 600-Pound Life, I actually love that show. It may be something I have to say about myself, but it’s fascinating. I find you two fascinating and I hope you’ll come back as we have this regular kind of media review of the week. Both of you are very much appreciated.

HOUCK: Thanks, Shannon.

CONCHA: Thank you, Shannon. Good night.

BREAM It’s your turn.