DELUSIONAL: MSNBC Anchor Joy Reid Says The Democrats Only Look Bad Because The Media Loves Republicans

On Monday, following Democrats’ failed attempt to shut down the government in order to pressure Republicans into re-enshrining President Obama’s executive amnesty, MSNBC anchor Joy Reid took to Twitter to express her outrage. And she blamed . . . the Republican-leaning media.

Yes, seriously.

There is nothing so predictable as media spin in favor of Republicans.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) January 22, 2018

Now, in case you were wondering if Reid is living in an alternative universe, she is: just 7% of journalists identify as Republicans, as opposed to 18% in 2002 and 26% in 1971. And according to the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, the press coverage of President Trump has been unprecedentedly nasty: in the first 100 days of his administration, CNN and NBC covered bad news for Trump at a 13-1 rate over good news. That rate was paralleled by other left-leaning outlets.

But while Reid was falsifying nonsense about Republican bias in the media, she was excited about the outcome of the shutdown: according to Reid, the Democrats won the shutdown.

Again, yes, seriously.

Important points by @Lawrence: there was much more orchestration going on behind the scenes by Democrats than you know. Schumer knew he would take the base hit, but he gave some of his “yes” voters important opportunities to nail McConnell on preventing funding to military etc.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) January 23, 2018

Votes are only part of what Senators do. And smart Senate leaders take the arrows and give their vulnerable members ammunition for their home state politics. And the new deadline of February 8th is the CONTINUATION of this process. It ain’t over, folks.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) January 23, 2018

Over time, that frenzy would have grown, and energized the GOP base. Meanwhile, as the shutdown pain spread and stories of federal workers and others suffering proliferated, public opinion would likely have begun to turn against the DREAMers who currently enjoy sky high approval.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) January 23, 2018

And if the gambit ultimately failed to produce a DACA bill, we’d be right where we are today anyway, with an angry Democratic base, but with the GOP still holding 9 million CHIP hostages.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) January 23, 2018

As it stands, the hostages are freed, the GOP can’t hide behind CHIP (or military funding, thanks to that epic soundbite Schumer and McCaskill got on McConnell) and McConnell is committed to bringing a bill to the floor or it’s shutdown number two, which neither party wants.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) January 23, 2018

Who is this guy talking right now on #MorningJoe? The idea that it’s Democrats who lost something by having CHIP renewed is ludicrous. It was Republicans who were holding CHIP hostage. They lost their hostage.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) January 23, 2018

Again, this is patently nuts. Schumer won nothing. Republicans wanted to re-fund CHIP anyway — they’ve been trying to do it for months, with Democrats obstructing at every step. Republicans are now the nearly sole sponsors of a highly popular program they just re-funded for six additional years. And Democrats tried to stop it.

Beyond that, Democrats lost whatever leverage they had for another shutdown. If they try to shut down the government in February, they’ll be asked what has changed since January. If they don’t, their base will go nuts. But at least Joy Reid will still be there for them, hacking away for her friends in the Party.