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Joy Reid

Opinion · Politics, race · @JoyAnnReid on X

Hosted MSNBC's The ReidOut (2020–2025) and now hosts The Joy Reid Show on YouTube. Worked for a Democratic-aligned group and Barack Obama's 2008 campaign before television.

Previously: MSNBC (The ReidOut, AM Joy, The Reid Report), The Miami Herald, The Grio, America Coming Together, Obama 2008 campaign

Slant Score · ranked #12 of 175 from most left to most right
41 Left
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Thin record: fewer than a handful of documented items, so this score is pulled toward the center and could move a lot as evidence is added.

The receipts (3)

On-record statement · served the left · +1.5 L · Sep 1, 2020

Compared Trump's Rittenhouse response to radicalization

On The ReidOut she criticized Trump for not condemning Kyle Rittenhouse and compared it to radicalization by leaders 'in the Muslim world'; groups including SPLC called the remark Islamophobic.

Source: Al Jazeera →
Correction / walk-back · served the left · +2.0 L · Jun 1, 2018

Apologized for old blog posts incl. McCain photoshop

Old posts from her blog included a photoshop of Republican John McCain's face on the Virginia Tech shooter; she issued a second formal apology for the posts on June 1, 2018.

Source: The Hill →
Partisan job · served the left · +2.0 L · Jan 1, 2003

America Coming Together

Left journalism in 2003 to work for America Coming Together, a group opposing President Bush.

Source: Wikipedia →
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