MSNBC's Joy Ann Reid Horrified By Sanders Supporters Throwing Dollar Bills At Hillary

[Cheese Sandwich]

JOY ANN REID: Bernie Sanders supporters throwing dollar bills at the motorcade of Hillary Clinton as she was going to the George Clooney fund-raiser. We're going to roll that video in a second. Just the idea of that, and people went on twitter afterwards. You can see the video there. People throwing dollar bills as if in a strip club.

This coming on the heels of a Bernie Sanders surrogate having to apologize for using the term "democratic [corporate] whores" at the Washington Square Park rally.

That visual there, of throwing dollar bills at a woman as she's going by in her motorcade, has the Democratic race gone over the edge?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/04/17/joy_ann_reid_act_of_throwing_dollar_bills_at_a_woman_echoes_sexist_corporate_whore_attack.html

[Segami]

1. Joy Reid shilling for Hillary......bucking for a Clinton administration position?

This is my take on your reports........

[Peregrine Took]

31. Sigh...'used to like her, too. Now she's just like the other sell outs.

She had real potential to be a human being but she's blown it.

[Kalidurga]

2. People throwing dollar bills as if in a strip club.

Um yeah cuz you can use a dollar bill in a strip club without getting slapped into next week.

[Art_from_Ark]

72. They're just answering her plea for $1 donations-- right this second!

[CentralCoaster]

3. That's just projection by the whores that are the corporate media.

Dollar bills being thrown by supporters to make the point that Hillary is about the Benjamin...

...and they go straight for whore reference, and not even the asexual meaning but jump further to a "stripper" reference.

That's on them.

Sometimes throwing one dollar bills for the cameras is just making a statement about bought and paid for politicians.

It took special effort to go all the way out to "strippers".

[ecstatic]

16. So Joy Reid is a whore now. Just wow. nt

[CentralCoaster]

21. Not sure. Does Joy Reid get paid to create drama and poop on progressives?

If she does, then yes she might be a media whore.

Is there some feature, some attribute or quality that exempts her from media whoredom?

Have I missed something she's done by way of, say, championing human rights?

[VulgarPoet]

23. The corporate supplicants are probably gonna swarm you after that. nt

[CentralCoaster]

24. Either that or crickets.

Funny part is that I don't have cable, I use digital broadcast, so don't watch MSNBC and don't follow Joy Reid.

Now I've given them a chance to tell me what Joy Ried might have done to earn more respect, but I suspect that there won't be any descriptions of such forthcoming.

That she or he works for MSNBC does nothing for me, nothing at all.

[ecstatic]

28. You "don't watch MSNBC and don't follow Joy Reid"

But yet you're on here running your mouth like you're some kind of expert. Well, here are the cliff notes: she's a Harvard educated African American woman and she is hands down, one of the best debaters and most informed contributors on MSNBC television. And that's both before and after your candidate threw his hat in the ring. But by all means, please proceed with your attacks.

[CentralCoaster]

32. Harvard? African American? On Television? None of these connote progressive values.

Let's review:

Ted Cruz went to Harvard. Condi Rice is woman and AA. Glenn Beck is on television.

So, tell me, what part of Harvard, blackness, femaleness, or being a debater and television person make Joy Reid our friend?

Or, maybe it's the magic combination of all four???

[ecstatic]

37. Her debates with right wingers and sexists are all over YouTube

You're the one who doesn't know what you're talking about. It's on you to inform yourself. I couldn't care less what you think.

[CentralCoaster]

34. "Throwing dollar bills as if in a strip club" Are you sure she went to Harvard?

"...at a WOMAN as she's going by in a motorcade". (As if a motorcade is just like a stripper and as if all them men and women along the street were just like men at stripclubs)

What cheap bullshit. How is this in any way like a strip club?

"Plus the fact that this is a 60 plus year old woman".

Yanno, whatever creds Joy Reid might have had going into this piece, she just shot them all to hell with these cheap shots.

[ecstatic]

36. Oh I see. She's not qualified to give her opinion.

Nice. First you questioned her credentials then dismised them as irrelevant. Keep it up, bros!

[Lizzie Poppet]

38. Being "qualified" and well-educated doesn't prohibit or prevent bullshit.

And in this instance, hers is a manufactured, load of faux outrage bullshit.

[PyaarRevolution]

43. I'm starting to remember a few things when Obama became president at the beginning.

Like how if you criticized him at ALL period....because he was a Black man, well you're surely just being racist. Yes, legitimate critiques of him were not allowed.
Granted with this just based on throwing money, they can argue the very LOOSE argument(in this case), that it is sexist because it involves a woman despite the real visual. It's not Hillary in her underwear, with people stuffing bills in that area...rather it's them throwing bills at a MOTORCADE. What Joy Reid is doing is called reaching and it's a reach most people except for Mr.Fantastic would be uncomfortable in regards to.
Ms.Reid should be ashamed of herself as she knows what she is doing is wrong.

[artislife]

60. Corporate hack, better?

[brewens]

56. At lest they weren't throwing quarters. n/t

[elleng]

4. Not watching.

I've liked Joy Ann. Rarely watch any msnbc these days.

[msongs]

5. they could have used that money to dine like Marie Antoinette on bernie's $200K vatican trip nt

[ChisolmTrailDem]

12. Is that all it cost? Hillary makes more than that for a 30 minute speech to Goldman Sachs.

vimeo.com/163178551

[pa28]

6. How high would you have to stack dollar bills to sit at the 350k table at Hillary's fundraiser?

It would be a towering stack of bills about 140 feet high. Nearly the height of her fake outrage.

[Joob]

7. Alright let's be serious for a Sec. Psychological effects of stuff like this.

Throwing around the word sexist, for something that truly isn't sexist is not good.
In cases like this, which is clearly about money in politics we know it's wrong, We certainly know those protesters feel it's wrong to have money in politics.

They are okay with being against money in politics, yet now they are labeled as sexist.
Do you think they'll take sexist complaints seriously later? No, because they were wrongly accused of it. Instead the next time something is labeled sexist they'll be thinking
"Oh what is it this time? Is this actually sexist?"

And the more and more people yell sexist at things that aren't really sexist. The less they take it seriously.

Real sexism should be taken seriously. This was clearly about money in politics, further more.

Stereotyping Strippers as having money just thrown at them IS Actually Sexist.

[jillan]

8. Instead of The Boy Who Cried Wolf it's the Hillary supporter that Cried Sexist.

[MisterP]

22. right--and every time someone goes Marcotte or Tindle that just builds up the

case for the Trumpists and the Redpillers--that these real issues have all along been a hollow sham by petty despots to play victim, for bubble-dwelling know-nothings to get power while sheltered from all consequence

it turns sex and race into campaign issues entirely disconnected from real records and real ways to move forward

[hopemountain]

9. you twisted it, joy reid -

the $$ bills represent money in politics - money that billary's campaign so readily takes and demands from corporate interests.

for extra points from your boss and to disparage the 99%, you to the liberty to twist it into something far from the intent the protestors. of course, you are free to view it as you did - which says a whole lot more about you.

time to take a good long look in the mirror, joy reid. maybe even take some time off. you are perilously close to the edge of becoming everything you once stood against - or, perhaps not. is this what you have been all along?

the post by joob makes a valid point.

[ecstatic]

10. "Striking for that to be coming from liberals"

That's the thing: Quite a few of Bernie's supporters are not liberals. I think some of them--the ones fueling the BernieBros phenomenon--are would-be libertarians/ republicans who happen to like Bernie's message. That's a success for Bernie, as he's spent many years trying to court that type into voting with progressives.

The problem is, in addition to their votes and temporary alliance with democrats, they bring certain values and behaviors with them. Behaviors and belief systems that I find disgusting. I've never seen anything like this in our party--the cyber bullying of surrogates and superdelegates, the sexism, racism, and hateful anti-democratic screeds.

Also, liberals would NEVER in a million years consider voting for Trump.

[ThePhilosopher04]

14. You have it exactly backwards. ALL Bernie supporters are liberal. ALL OF THEM.

AS IN, EVERY SINGLE LAST ONE. On the contrary, Hillary fans are more conservative, and in some cases, would be Republicans if the Republican party weren't so bat shit crazy these days.

I don't know any Bernie supporters who would ever consider of voting for Trump. I also don't know any who will vote for Hillary, but we god damn sure won't vote for the Trumpster Fire, or any other Republican for that matter.

[ecstatic]

17. I disagree. For example, many of them say they won't vote for Clinton if

she's the nominee, which means they're comfortable allowing Trump or Cruz to select up to 4 Supreme Court justices. For a liberal, voting for Hillary against Trump or Cruz is a no brainer.

[ThePhilosopher04]

18. Hillary is not a liberal either. I don't do conservative. Sorry.

[GoneFishin]

58. Hillary is a war hawk neocon who sucks up to big money every chance she gets. She is a conservative.

[artislife]

63. There will be another woman on the ballot for those

So myopic many seem to be. There are not only repub, dem or no vote. There are other choices.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. The protestors were speaking her language. Are we supposed to feel sorry for her?

[ThePhilosopher04]

13. I like Joy Reid but she's having an extremely difficult time suppressing her severe bias

making these protesters out to be sexist, comparing it to throwing $ at strippers is jumping the shark big time. She's unwatchable lately, as is MSNBC as a whole.

[KPN]

15. "AS IF IN A STRIP CLUB"???!!! WHAT!!!!

Joy Ann Reid should be fired for making that comment.

[oasis]

45. "Fired" no way. She should be commended for calling out low class behavior.

I'm willing to bet many of those "so called" protesters ever voted for a Democrat.

[KPN]

49. If throwing dollar bills at a politician's motorcade truly upsets you,

you've got esteem problems man.

Keep on truckin' though.

[oasis]

50. Me upset? Who called for the firing of a cable anchor

for offering her opinion? Sheeeeze.

[KPN]

61. That was worth being upset over.

The "news" today is worth being upset over -- it ain't news, it's part of the propaganda machine.

But let me play along for a moment. OK, so you weren't upset. But you are defending the right of a newscaster to smear an entire segment of the public by basically equating them with strip joint enthusiasts on national television. So in essence, in my view, you are defending MSMs practice of propagandizing as opposed to objectively reporting on the news. What Joy Reid said and did is no worse than what one expects from Faux News. And you condone it.

If that is acceptable to you, then you have a serious lack of self-esteem. How's that? Better?

[oasis]

65. Thanks for the psychological intervention, but you really

should stick to your armchair critiques of cable spokespersons, you're much better at it.

[artislife]

64. I bet they won't again.

And they are protesting money in politics, like citizen united. This used to be something Democrats were against.


But rationalizing changes things, doesn't it?

[oasis]

66. Hillary has already expressed her desire for shutting down

Citizens United.

[artislife]

68. After she is done running and those she has

promised help with are done running...and so on and so on and so on.

You see how this never stops, don't you?

[oasis]

69. After she appoints her 3 Supreme Court justices it will be in their hands. nt

[artislife]

70. If that will be a consideration for her appointees.

I don't believe it.

[OutNow]

19. You folks must be too young to remember the Yippies throwing money at the New York Stock Exchange

1967 - Abbie Hoffman and the Yippie Party showed up at the New York Stock Exchange and threw dollar bills onto the trading floor. It was great guerilla theater.

The folks that ran the exchange were totally freaked out.

Feel the Bern.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/17/news/funny/abbie_hoffman/index.htm

[Bluenorthwest]

33. No one here is too young to remember FIFA's Stepp Blatter being showered with $$ in July 2015

[BreakfastClub]

20. It was a ridiculous spectacle and shows great immaturity and inability to understand

even the basics of American politics. Much of that money raised by Clinton is going to other candidates who will be on ballots across the country in November. She is doing what she is supposed to be doing. Sanders is acting like a jackass and living in a dream world if he thinks it's "wrong" to raise money for campaigns. It's really breathtakingly idiotic.

[All in it together]

40. It's about who you are taking money from and what kind of policies you support for them

It's obvious Hillary is taking money for herself, not to do better for the rest of us, so she can have power and wealth and the White House again. She knew she would run again and still took these speaking engagements and bundles of cash from the too big to fail banks. She might say cut that out again if they crash again.

She can't wait to get in the White House and return to going to war. A no fly zone on the Russians? That's a step towards war. Her number 1 enemy Iran so she can go to war with them on the side of Israel and Netanyahu. Did Kissinger advise her on that, more neocon shit. The military industrial complex will be nicely fed.

Having all sorts of African American friends after calling their children super preditors. Supporting the crime bill to fill up prisons and taking money from the for profit prison industry. Running a racist campaign against Obama. And pretending to be so close to him now.

She's not someone I trust in the presidency, she's an opportunist of the worse sort.

I'm against that whatever you call me.

[arcane1]

41. Since nobody thinks it's ""wrong" to raise money" your post is completely full of shit n/t

[PyaarRevolution]

44. By your logic we would have made little strides in the Animal Rights movement.

It took PETA's acts of spectacle to make it as far in the Animal Rights movement as far as we have and I don't LIKE PETA as a vegan. That being said, I'll give Ingrid Newkirk credit as her actions have managed to see some real reform instituted among Corp.

[KPN]

71. The Clinton mind-meld on full display here.

Somehow we gotta help these folks recapture their brains.

[workinclasszero]

25. Calling people whores and throwing dollar bills

No sexism here folks....lets move along.

[LexVegas]

26. Berniebros in action. nt

[shadowandblossom]

47. Yup.

What else needs to be said on that one.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. Throwing dollar bills is a protest method that dates back to the '60s.

It has nothing to do with strippers or prostitution. It's to symbolize excessive wealth and greed. Anyhow you don't throw bills at strippers; you stuff them in their g-strings. You don't throw them at prostitutes, either; you leave them on the nightstand.

[KingFlorez]

29. If someone threw tax forms at Sanders, his supporters would have a fit

Or perhaps even NRA flyers (the people who got him elected).

[rachacha]

30. Throwing dollars isn't sexist. Throwing closed-door fundraisers is classist.

[Vinca]

35. I was thinking about this current faux brouhaha as I did my errands this morning.

The biggest question I have is how whores are suddenly interchangeable with strippers. Just because someone strips for a living doesn't mean their sexual favors are for sale. Some women can't find other work and are lucky enough to have bodies people might want to look at. That doesn't mean they're prostitutes and any dollars thrown are more akin to a tip given to a waiter.

[libodem]

39. What conflating

The term is 'corporate whore', and it's more of a verb here than a fucking noun.

Willful ignorance makes me sick.

[shadowandblossom]

48. Willful ignorance like this makes me sick.

Older women are watching this stuff.

[Buns_of_Fire]

42. "That visual there, of throwing dollar bills at a POLITICIAN..."

There y'go, Joy. I fixed it for you.

Although, if you want to go down that road, you probably should have added "and everyone who doesn't unconditionally support Hillary is a sexist pig and deserves to spend eternity in hell" just to catapult the message.

[shadowandblossom]

46. Yeah, that was pretty jaw-droppingly idiotic behavior. They lost a lot of votes on that one.

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[Octafish]

51. Manufactured outrage.

It's all they got.

[BernieforPres2016]

52. Raising $15 million in a couple of closed fundraisers isn't an outrage

But throwing dollar bills at the candidate who does that kind of thing is. Welcome to the consequences of Bill Clinton's Telecommunications Act and 25 years of Clintons working the corporate media.

[chillfactor]

53. same here...

it really was two-year-old behavior.

[speaktruthtopower]

54. I'll admit can't see that happening with a male candidate..

[Snotcicles]

55. Reid was filling in for Mark Thompson yesterday on "Make It Plain". I couldn't listen after

hearing how she talked down to every Sanders supporter. I use to listen to the show often, but I rarely do anymore.

[artislife]

57. Crap...they are trying to twist this

into sexist behavior.

It is because of her money taking, money laundering, ways.


I am beginning to disown the "feminist" label if they are all going to act like pearl clutchers.

[Skwmom]

59. The more Joy toes the corporate line the more air time she gets. She's rewarded for being a good

corporate puppet.

[beedle]

62. Bought and sold politicians get Billions of dollars thrown at them every week.

but to Hillary supporters, strippers (real women who don't deserve to be ridiculed and pushed forward as an example of "the low life of society&quot who make a middle class living in a world where this is one of the few jobs that women can make more than men, are the first thing that comes to mind when money is thrown at a politician known for taking vast wads of money from Wall St.

Yes, there is sexism here .. but it's coming from the Hillary camp. They need to apologize to strippers for making them out to be 'low life scum' that Hillary is 'unfairly' being compared to.

Did anyone from the Hillary camp bother to go talk to some strippers and ask them if they felt that protest was an insult to strippers? Of course not ... fuck, they didn't even check their 1980's meme of $1 bills and strippers to see if it actually made any sense in today's world ... millennial are probably thinking ... is that something my grandpa says, like when he talks about telegraphs and record players?

If for some reason I was ever angry at a stripper I might compare her to Hillary.

[bbgrunt]

67. just another "outrage" to avoid discussing issues.