Deranged MSNBC hack Joy Reid’s show “The ReidOut” has been canceled, as the beleaguered network’s president Rebecca Kutler gestures toward a wider slate of changes meant at saving MSNBC’s bacon ahead of its spinoff as a separate company.
Let’s be clear: That Reid ever had a topline, name-brand show was a joke.
She regularly distorted, lied and misinformed viewers to advance the agenda of the Democratic Party’s left wing and bolster its policy goals.
On Russiagate, COVID and everything else, Reid was in the forefront of the media’s propaganda efforts for years.
(Not to mention the fact that she deserves some Lifetime Achievement Award for appearances in our The Week in Whoppers column.)
So no tears here over her exit.
Yet it sure doesn’t look like MSNCB is learning much: The honchos are reportedly bringing on Kamala Harris surrogate Symone Sanders-Townsend as part of the panel replacing Reid, along with Democratic scioness Alicia Menendez and Biden-loving GOPer Michael Steele.
And Rachel Maddow and ex-Biden flack Jen Psaki (a world-class liar herself) will still figure prominently in its lineups.
So there’s a bigger question here: Has the network itself outlived its purpose?
It existed primarily to put the legit news gathered by NBC (itself already plenty left-leaning) through a progressive meat grinder.
And to generate increasingly strident seal-claps and screeches of laughter from its Boomer/Gen X audience.
MSNBC spent most of the past decade in an endless frenzy over Donald Trump and whatever prog cause of the week happened to be in fashion.
But immediately after Trump’s election victory, the network’s primetime audience plummeted 53% (it’s since seen a bit of a rebound).
So maybe all those Lawn Sign Americans have given up on MSNBC as the remedy for Orange Man; perhaps they’ve given up on TV news and now content themselves with crying into their kombucha.
(Long shot? They’re engaging in some serious self-reflection, for which MSNBC is worse than useless.)
Whatever the cause, MSNBC’s raison d’etre is looking very unclear.
And that is great news for America.
