Michael Knowles Destroys Joy Reid In Surprise Appearance On ‘Piers Morgan Uncensored’

Daily Wire podcast host Michael Knowles slammed former MSNBC host Joy Reid in a surprise appearance on “Piers Morgan Uncensored.”

Morgan was interviewing Reid when he asked her to respond to a clip from “The Michael Knowles Show” that aired shortly after “The ReidOut” was canceled.

Knowles said at the time:

Joy Reid — probably the nastiest figure on MSNBC, the most Left, the most vicious against conservatives and white people and men and all the rest — she has just been canned, fired, kicked to the side of the road, her show is over. This saddens me a little bit, because I did not yet have the opportunity to go on it.

I am celebrating that there is no longer a market for her disgusting product. That’s what I’m genuinely happy about. There has been a major shift. Her show, and shows like her show, no longer have value. And that’s not just because of Joy Reid’s favorite villains: the evil white man or the Christians or the conservatives. It’s because no one watches her show.

“So, Joy, I’ve actually got Michael Knowles waiting in the wings,” Morgan said after the clip aired. “What did you make of his critique of your show?”

“Well, I mean, the reality is that obviously people watched the show,” Reid said. “That’s the reason that the show was on for four and a half, nearly five years. So if he didn’t like the show, I guess, sorry you didn’t enjoy it, but I really am not that interested in his views on it.”

Knowles fired right back.

“I guess I would agree with Joy’s take. People watched the show, in the past tense,” Knowles said. “And now there’s no longer a market for that absolutely vile content, and I think that’s good for the culture broadly.”

"People watched the show, in the past tense, and now there's no longer a market for that absolutely vile content."

Surprise guest @michaeljknowles joins former MSNBC host Joy Reid on Piers Morgan Uncensored. pic.twitter.com/MkW1px8HWZ

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Reid accused Knowles and Morgan of “[trading] in grievance.”

“White grievance is very good for your bottom lines,” Reid said. “So having me here to be able to continue to traffic in that, that is your shtick.”

Knowles said Reid’s accusation was pure projection.

“When she’s talking about this anger, this grievance — I think, frankly, Piers, you and I are two of the least aggrieved people in the entire media,” Knowles said. “Generally pretty chipper, cheery people.”

Knowles added that while the Left pushed grievance politics, President Donald Trump decided success would be the best form of revenge.

“He did bring on a lot of people, many more than just white people, to his coalition: 46% of Hispanics, one in five Black men, 40% of women under 30,” Knowles said. “So, he built a very large coalition here.”

That coalition, Knowles said, is concerning liberals such as former President Barack Obama, who pushed grievance politics.

“Obama was one of the big promoters of proto-wokeness,” Knowles said. “It spun out of control, so now you’re seeing this run away with them.”

Knowles said the Left is now trying to backtrack on grievance politics.

“The Democrats got creamed in the 2024 elections. And [Obama’s] saying, ‘Whoa, whoa, guys, bring it back. Don’t seem so aggrieved,'” Knowles said. “I just think it’s a little bit too late. He’s being hoisted with his own petard.”