In yet another very funny moment coming out of MSNBC’s decision to fire Joy Reid and cancel her low-ratings “ReidOut” program, Reid’s former fellow MSNBC host, Rachel Maddow, went berserk live on air and attacked her network over the decision. MSNBC’s decision to sweep out Reid appears to come as it readies for its sale by parent company Comcast.
Beginning her tirade against her network for getting rid of Reid before a sale, Maddow snapped, “She is leaving the network altogether and that is very, very, very hard to take. I am 51 years old. I have been gainfully employed since I was 12 and I have had so many different kinds of jobs, you wouldn’t believe me if I told you.”
Continuing, she claimed that the very woke, very tiresome Reid is the best colleague she has ever worked with, claiming, somewhat ridiculously, “But in all of the jobs I have had in all of the years I have been alive, there is no colleague for whom I have had more affection and more respect than Joy Reid.”
Maddow then said, “I love everything about her. I have learned so much from her. I have so much more to learn from her. I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC, and personally, I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door. It is not my call and I understand that. But that’s what I think.”
She further added, playing the race card about Reid’s firing, “I will tell you. It is also unnerving to see that on a network where we’ve got two – count them – two nonwhite hosts in primetime, both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. And that feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them. That feels indefensible. And I do not defend it.”
Maddow then said, “But there’s just one other piece of it that you should know. From your side of the TV screen, you will mostly see changes in terms of who’s in the anchor chair, and actually everybody who’s going to be in anchor chairs from here on out are great colleagues and great at what they do. And you are not going to be disappointed in who’s on our air and what you’re going to be seeing.” Watch her here:
Maddow also whined about off-air staffers at MSNBC being cleaned out by the network as it cuts costs, saying, “Dozens of producers and staffers, including some who are among the most experienced and most talented and most specialist producers in the building are facing being laid off.”
Concluding, she said, “They’re being invited to reapply for new jobs. That has never happened at this scale in this way before when it comes to programming changes, presumably because it’s not the right way to treat people. And it’s inefficient and it’s unnecessary, and it kind of drops the bottom out of whether or not people feel like this is a good place to work.”
