AM Joy dedicated 20+ minutes to basically saying Mayor Pete...

[SKKY]

...dog whistled for racist cops. Tight. Slow news Sunday I guess. smh

[George II]

1. That's after she spent a few minutes putting down Biden as "only a feel-good candidate", as though..

...he hasn't done anything for the last 40+ years.

Her show is getting to be a major downer - hardly anything positive is ever discussed anymore.

[Cha]

22. Oh yeah? I fucking "feel Good" about beating #45IMPEACHED &

I like Biden for the job.

How's that, joy reid? Who does she want?

[Cha]

23. P.S. nothing to say about

BS?

[madaboutharry]

2. I stopped watching her program.

She ran out of anything to say a long time ago. And her sustained attack on Pete Buttigieg is beyond off putting, it is pathological.

[Green Line]

4. I stopped watching for basically the same reason, putting down Mayor Pete and Joe Biden

She's ridiculous

[madville]

8. She's unwatchable these days

And I still haven’t forgotten her past few homophobic blog posts and then lying ridiculously about being hacked.

[Demsrule86]

10. Given her issues with LGBTQ, I find it suspect as well...I defended her ferociously when the

anti-Gay posts surface...people evolve...yada yada...but maybe I was wrong about her in fact, I think I was.

[dsc]

17. she showed us who she was

we should believe her the first time.

[Demsrule86]

18. I think you are right...I just didn't want to believe it. I admired her a great deal...and me with a

Gay daughter...how stupid I was...ah well.

[hlthe2b]

3. I still like Joy, but she seems to project/claim monolithic thinking among African Americans

toward the most progressive candidates and away from the likes of Biden, Buttigieg, and Klobuchar. Given the polled consensus views of older African Americans in the South in favor of Biden, a trend that is the one most long-lived and repeatedly documented in this primary, it feels really contemptuous of this older group of African Americans to so discount their views, yet she and several of her regular roundtable members seem to do so continuously.

I continue to like all five of the leading candidates (and a couple in the lower tier) and would like our tv pundits to give them all an even-handed coverage.

Joy can be quite good on more global issues. But, yes, I find it increasingly difficult to watch her espouse on the primary.

[wiley]

31. Seems to project?

She constantly insults us. Hey! Black Men Exist Joy!

[Mike Nelson]

5. I thought that went on too long...

... and, she couldn't find one Pete supporter to book?

[dsc]

11. actually she would only book him

no surrogates.

[Hortensis]

6. WHY? There's no insight without understanding WHY.

What is she hired to accomplish and for whom? When she and the rest of her team and outside political staffers met to discuss what themes would be hit in this program, who were they, what themes were they considering, and WHY?

I don't watch her any more. And the themes her programs push are sufficient reason. Either Republicans or Democrats will become the dominant power starting in 2021. Among smart people, and they are, every theme that undermines belief and confidence in Democrats (like this one) and stoke divisions (like this one) is meant to benefit Republicans.

[Demsrule86]

7. I dislike her and no longer watch her show.

I used to tape it faithfully...She is no better than Fox spewing propaganda.

[highplainsdem]

9. I've been seeing a lot of complaints about that segment on Twitter.

Search Twitter for

joy reid buttigieg

to see the comments.

[left-of-center2012]

12. I quit her long ago

Back when she 'apologized' for her anti-gay posts,
and then backtracked to say:

"Oh no, I didn't do it.
My account was hacked!"

[dsc]

13. I am literally trying to imagine

if when then candidate Obama lied to our faces about McClurkin a journalist for the Advocate had written an article entitled Barack Obama Is A Lying MF and then wrote something else about Obama. Would MSNBC invite a racist talking head to have him or her on to trash Obama and refuse to let a surrogate on to defend him? Sure they would have. Sure.

[KPN]

14. Joy Reid is an imposter who speaks well. She's

not a journalist.

[philly_bob]

33. When Joy Reid is on, I switch to CNN.

Been doing so for months.

[KPN]

36. I've been doing so for years.

[Apollo Zeus]

37. +1

Almost none of the cable news regulars function as journalists. Reid is generally listed as an "American cable television host" and I find that to be accurate.

[Polly Hennessey]

15. I am beginning to have a problem

with Joy Reid. Her show today on Pete Buttegeig was terrible. Twenty minutes of negativity. I then remembered that Michael Harriot from the Root tried to do a smear job on Joe Biden a couple of months ago. I wonder who he will target next: Mayor Bloomberg; Tom Steyer; Bernie Sanders; Andrew Yang. I tape her show but seldom watch anymore for all the reasons already stated. I watched this morning because I was astounded at the one-sided segment on Pete. No more, I’ll tape Ali Velshi’s new show on before her. Joy Ann has become biased. I also discovered that Henry Gates, Jr., is a co-founder of The Root publication. Joy Ann was a Root reporter at one time.

[True Blue American]

16. I have not had any cable, internet or phone since last night.

How great it was to not listen or read anything. High winds.

Joy lost me long ago. Not sure why they keep her.

[Cha]

24. Bet you're glad to have it back!

[True Blue American]

25. Yes and no.

Came back to the same old. I went to Church in a much better frame of mind.

Found from Church members there was a tornado about 40 miles away. Flash floods, high winds torrential rains and spring like temperatures.

[Cha]

27. Sorry, about the tornado, flash floods and torential rains!

They need rain in Australia!

[True Blue American]

28. We did, too.

But a young internet friend of ours volunteered to fight in that fire. English, he is in College there

Had his hands and arms burned from a flash fire. Threw up is hands to protect his face went right back. He went right back. The fire is much worse than California.

Yet Trump and his gang are weakening climate laws. We have a bunch of ignorant lunatics running our Government

[Cha]

29. I'm sorry your friend got burned.. I've read lots

of our Fire Fighters have gone to Australia..

US firefighters sent to fight Australian bushfires get heroes’ welcomes Down Under

https://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/us-firefighters-sent-to-fight-australian-bushfires-get-heroes-welcomes-down-under-1.614234

My daughter is going to Melbourne Wednesdy.. her son is going to Medical school there.

[True Blue American]

30. I know

Am so proud of them. This is really what our Country is, not what we see on the news.

You would not believe how neighbors, Churches, First Responders came together when we had the tornado's, then the killings. Trump restricted his visit here to a very short trip to the local Hospital. He was not welcomed. Refused the Press to accompany him..

[Raine]

21. I've had a problem with her for a long time

I can't stand her! 😠

[not_the_one]

19. It seems to me that it has been decided (I'm not sure by whom, but I have my suspicions...)

that the black community MUST NOT support Mayor Pete.

But that decision appears too conclusive to be spontaneous...

After all, if the black community isn't on board with our nominee, the rest of us can sit at home, because that nominee will lose. Joy is just helping achieve that goal.

Apparently (we are led to believe) the backbone of the black voting constituency, (all older black women) refuse to support him, therefore the entire black vote will be a no-show if he is the nominee. They won't say it is because of his sexuality, but they ALL seem to be "christian", and appear to be taking their marching biases from the black fundamental churches. (THAT is where my suspicions light, and it's also probably being fanned by those who want to cause discord among democrats...)

So the self-fulfilling prophecy was initiated so that EVERYONE says that blacks will never support Pete, therefore no one does. They say they aren't monolithic, yet no one wants to rock the boat. They would just as soon support Biden, because of Obama, and IN SPITE OF Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas. You can rest assured that ALL that shit will be dragged out when Biden becomes the nominee.

I am a Pete supporter. He has his critics within the black community on issues he faced as a mayor. He has been asked about the firing and the shooting. I happen to believe him. I am NOT big on his being SO religious, but I can overlook that because of his intelligence, empathy and ability to look at issues and offer a new way of addressing them. The same old, same old hasn't worked, and we need new options. At this point we, as a country, have SO jumped the shark, that desperation is a legitimate option in choosing a nominee. Sometimes a new direction is not only warranted, but smart. I think this is as good a time for serious change as we are going to get. The outrage I am seeing and hearing SEEMS to be overwhelming. While at the same time we are led to believe that this is a neck-in-neck horse race. Again, Joy is helping to achieve that.

Yes Pete is young. So? Apparently any idiot can fill the slot of POTUS. But, it is ALSO GLARINGLY APPARENT, the person in the position itself does not do all the work. The key is the people around the president, and the vision the president gives them. I trust Pete completely in that arena.

Obviously YMMV.

[True Blue American]

26. Sharpton had Nina Turner on.

Seems they want to decide who they want. I do not think they speak for the average black voter.

I like Mayor Pete. We need that young Leadership.. but I also like Biden, Warren, Klobuchar, Tom Steyer and Bloomberg. They are head and shoulders above Trump.

[tishaLA]

20. I suspect Ms Reid and others would love to hear

about actions he's taken during his life to increase racial justice.

[Joinfortmill]

32. I like Mayor Pete a lot

I think he has a future in national politics.

[tritsofme]

34. She's the one with the nasty history of homophobia, right?

Not exactly surprising...

[cwydro]

35. Yep. That's her.

I never watch her.

[Drunken Irishman]

38. Joy's irrational hatred of Pete, and her past comments about gays, makes you wonder...

...what exactly fuels her criticism? Hm...

[SKKY]

40. Right? I mean, if there wasn't already a history, I guess I could just pass this off as...

...intrusive journalism. But, given past statements, it does give pause for questioning one's motives.

[renate]

39. her delivery has always made her painful to watch

Every sentence is a statement, and then she kind of pauses like she's waiting for applause. She seems to have good guests, when I do bring myself to watch, but on weekend mornings it's the BBC and CNN for me.

[Gothmog]

41. It was one of AMJOY's better segments on the primaries

[SaschaHM]

42. There's this strange fragility whenever Black journalists, reporters, or entertainment personalities

speak about Pete (or frankly any Democrat) in a remotely critical light. I still remember the post here calling for MSNBC to not allow her to talk about Pete or the crazy conspiracy that black journalists as a whole were out to get him.

I've been done with Pete, but I'm past the point of reconsideration now too. I'd mute his name, but I'd miss threads where he comes up tangentially in the title.