Former CNN anchor Don Lemon slammed Megyn Kelly who said she wouldn’t be crying any tears for MSNBC’s anchor Joy Reid losing her MSNBC show “The ReidOut” — and her subsequent exit from the network.
Speaking out on his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lscf4ARflpg">YouTube</a> show, Lemon went on a rant against Kelly, saying first that he “usually doesn’t like to talk about her,” and labeling her “a troll” and “a racist.”
“I usually don’t like to talk about her because she’s one of those people, she thrives on it,” Lemon said. “She has built the second part of her career on being a troll.” 
“Let me just say to Megyn Kelly, in my 30 some years as a journalist, and my 50 some years as a person of color, go f*** yourself,” he added, after playing a clip of Kelly saying something similar on her show about Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski and their visit to Mar-a-lago following President Donald Trump’s victory.
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Lemon, who was fired from CNN in 2023, also said that “the worst person from television was fired from NBC and the &#8216;Today&#8217; show a few years ago, and that’s Megyn Kelly.”
The former CNN host’s rant came after Kelly posted on <a href="https://x.com/megynkelly/status/1893692907665686539">X</a>, “good riddance,” in reference to Reid.
“Remember when Joy Reid laughingly mocked ‘White women tears’ as pathetic and offensive to her? Who’s crying now, Joy?” Kelly wrote. “Good riddance to the absolute worst person on television, and shame on NBC for letting it go on this long.”
“Joy Reid has viciously mocked the tears of every white person she’s helped cancel over the years for some imaginary racial slight,” she <a href="https://x.com/megynkelly/status/1894120519063998544">added</a>. “She’s had zero empathy for anyone. Now she wants us to feel sorry for her. WE DON’T.”
Later on “The Megyn Kelly Show” podcast, the host played <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dqlgUvgLaP0">clips</a> of Reid’s “most racist moments” and said, “I’m thrilled she’s gone. She literally was the most racist person on television … But we won’t have her to kick around anymore, there’s a little sadness in that.”
“Single tear, White woman tears happening right here, Joy,” she <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8smx_6kwZac">added</a>. “She was officially fired over the weekend because she’s a racist, horrible news anchor with no ratings.”
At one point, Kelly pointed out that Reid could try independent media, like Don Lemon, who got fired from CNN and later announced his plans to start his own YouTube show. “Don Lemon’s podcast, abject failure,&#8221; Kelly said.
On Tuesday, Kelly <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DGguJtPRfXS/">addressed</a> Lemon’s rant against her and said “Don Lemon has no viewers. He has no listeners whatsoever. He has not been able to make it in the cable news world where he was repeatedly demoted. And then fired.”
“He was fired two minutes after getting hired by Elon [Musk], which should have been a lifeline to him, but he was too stupid to actually take advantage of it,” she added. “And now he’s too stupid to actually make it in the digital lane. So, he did the one thing he could think of to do which is get into the press by attacking me.”
“And now he’s gotten more ink than he’s gotten in the past four years,” Kelly continued. “But he’s a sad, pathetic little man who actually cannot make it in business on his own. And really at this point, thoughts and prayers, Don.”

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Rachel Maddow put MSNBC on blast on Monday for firing host Joy Reid, saying the decision was “very, very, very hard to take.”
It was announced on Sunday that Reid’s daily 7 p.m. show “The ReidOut” would end this month. Maddow announced that &#8220;The Rachel Maddow Show&#8221; would air only on Mondays after President Donald Trump&#8217;s first 100 days in office, but she went on to mention that some of her colleagues wouldn’t be on the air at all.
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NO JOY: MSNBC&#39;s Rachel Maddow in the wake of Joy Reid&#39;s show being cancelled: &quot;I think it is a bad mistake…&quot; 
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&#8220;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&#8217;t believe me if I told you. 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,&#8221; Maddow said. 
&#8220;I love everything about her. I have learned so much from her,” she said. “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&#8217;s what I think.&#8221;
Maddow said it was &#8220;unnerving&#8221; that MSNBC canceled primetime shows with &#8220;two non-white hosts.&#8221;
&#8220;And that feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them,&#8221; Maddow said. &#8220;That feels indefensible, and I do not defend it.&#8221;
The TV host failed to mention that “The ReidOut” time slot is being replaced by current weekend hosts Symone Sanders-Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez. Two of these hosts are black, and one is Latina. 
Reid <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-not-sorry-tearful-joy-reid-claims-her-anti-trump-anti-israel-screeds-were-of-god">reacted</a> to the news during a podcast interview on Sunday, saying she was “not sorry” for some of the more controversial statements she’s made on the show, including statements on Black Lives Matter, immigration, Gaza, and criticism about President Trump. 
“And where I come down on that is, I’m not sorry. I am not sorry that I stood up for those things because those things are of God,” Reid said.

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Rachel Maddow Slams MSNBC For Firing Joy Reid: ‘Indefensible’

Rachel Maddow Blasts MSNBC For Firing Joy Reid: 'Indefensible'

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Nature is healing. 
Nowhere is it more healing than right now at MSNBC. 
Joy Reid is apparently losing her show at MSNBC and leaving the network completely.
But MSNBC insists they are going to continue with their leftist views. They are not going to move toward the center. Genius-level ideas from the leadership over at MSNBC.
They are reportedly going to move Jen Psaki, former White House press secretary to Joe Biden, to anchor one of the primetime hours during the week. She could be named anchor of MSNBC&#8217;s 9 p.m. hour, where Rachel Maddow is currently holding court. Joy Reid is apparently going to be replaced by Symone Sanders-Townsend, who was a press secretary for Bernie Sanders before being a press secretary for Kamala Harris; Michael Steele, the former RNC chairman who has moved far to the Left; and Alicia Menendez. The leadership over at MSNBC suggests they are going to add Politico&#8217;s Eugene Daniels and NYU law professor Melissa Murray to the network&#8217;s lineup as well.
So they are continuing to move over to the Left. This reflects a serious problem in the Democratic Party: They do not know which way to move. They are stuck because of identity politics and, largely, because of immigration. They are now stuck in a rut of their own making, and it is very difficult to break out of that rut.
As a result, Democrats are thrashing against the box of reality. Former Bill Clinton pollster Mark Penn points out the Democratic Party is more unpopular than they&#8217;ve been any time in his lifetime, <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/former-clinton-pollster-tells-fox-news-democratic-party-support-is-at-record-low-and-falling-off-a-cliff/">saying</a>, “I have never seen anything like this. This is a record low for the Democratic Party in terms of favorability.”
Democrats are trying to figure out exactly to whom they should turn in the wake of Donald Trump&#8217;s victory and the fact that he&#8217;s now steamrolling through his agenda. Do they turn back to the supposedly moderate types, the Joe Biden types? Or should they double down on Kamala Harris, who is still wandering the landscape.
Democrats themselves are torn as to how to approach the Trump administration. On the one hand, they want to go back to resistance-style anger. They want to just scream at the wind — a lot. The problem for them is that they can&#8217;t find a point of consolidation because much of what Trump is doing right now is quite popular.
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So, they&#8217;re stuck in a weird in-between. On the one hand, they want to preach that Trump is non-empathetic and more empathy is needed.
But people don&#8217;t see the Democrats as empathetic.
At a town hall event in Roswell, Georgia, a Democrat woman went on a rant over the weekend that got a lot of attention from the Left. She <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/town-hall-erupts-at-blistering-anti-trump-rant-torching-tyranny-gets-standing-ovation-in-trump-district/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blustered</a>:
<blockquote>It&#8217;s clear from all the writings of our founding fathers that our great republic was never meant to be ruled by a dictator nor a king. It’s clear from all the writings of our Founding Fathers that our great Republic was never meant to be ruled by a dictator, nor a king. … So you can imagine my shock and pure horror when I woke up to find that our president had given himself unprecedented executive powers, and then, within a few days, named himself King to his followers. … Tyranny is rising in the white House, and a man has declared himself our king. So I would like to know. Rather the people would like to know what you, congressman, and your fellow congressman are going to do to rein in the megalomaniac in the White House.</blockquote>
All of this rings hollow. It is sound and fury signifying almost nothing at this point because the Democratic Party does not know what it stands for. On the one hand, they want to say they are for everyone. On the other hand, they want to push identity politics. On the one hand, they want to talk about no dictatorship. On the other hand, they want government to control every part of Americans’ lives. On the one hand, they want to rave that Trump is breaking down foreign policy. On the other hand, they want to surrender almost everywhere.
So which is it?
In the end, the answer is that, for Democrats, their future hinges on one thing: Trump&#8217;s failure. If Trump fails, they win.
It&#8217;s that simple. They don&#8217;t have anything else. Their only point of consolidation is if Trump and his administration fail at making America succeed. That is the only way that they have a pathway back to power.
Democrats are betting that it&#8217;s all going to fall apart for President Trump. And massive collapse doesn&#8217;t appear to be on the horizon — unless there is some sort of serious economic problem. And that is why the central focus of the Trump administration right now must be on bringing down inflation; it must be on economic growth. That&#8217;s what the central focus has to be.
Yes, we want to see President Trump keep all of his promises — and he will with regard to immigration. Sure, we would like to see President Trump bring an end to the war in Ukraine in a reasonable fashion.
But the thing that Americans care most about — and this is always true — is their economic well-being. We have a real estate bubble because fewer people are selling their homes and demand has remained. We have a stock market bubble which is likely to break at some point. These are the worries the Trump administration has to deal with.
Inflation is driving both of those things because the currency was wildly inflated over the course of Biden&#8217;s tenure. Inflation remains at 3% right now, which is 50% higher than the Federal Reserve generally prefers. That means interest rates are unlikely to come down, which means it will be tough to get a loan. At the same time, someone who has a loan will not want to spend their money on inflated assets.
This is a bit of a sticky patch for the American economy. Productivity gains will help; more competition, less regulation, more investment in newer things will help.
But DOGE alone is not going to solve these fiscal problems.
It&#8217;s very good to talk about waste, fraud, and abuse, but those three elements amount to a negligible percentage of actual federal spending.
To unshackle the economy and see productivity gains, business growth, and an economic boom, the kinds of programs that no one is politically willing to target must be targeted.
The single most important op-ed of the last five years was <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/welfare-is-whats-eating-the-budget-10c9d093?mod=e2two" target="_blank" rel="noopener">penned</a> by House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington and former U.S. Senator Phil Gramm in September of last year. In it, they discussed what is actually driving America&#8217;s systemic national debt. The actual systemic drivers of the debt, as Arrington and Phil Gramm pointed out, are in the means-tested social welfare spending programs — precisely the things that neither party actually wants to touch, such as Medicaid, food stamps, refundable tax credits, Supplemental Security Income, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, federal housing subsidies, and almost 100 other programs.
What&#8217;s actually to bring long-lasting success is not going to be cutting around the edges. It&#8217;s not going to be posturing. What&#8217;s actually to bring long-lasting success is what is most politically difficult.
But if nobody&#8217;s willing to do it, then basically we&#8217;re just going to end up in a leftist populist horseshoe where, despite all the talk about innovation, government just continues to grow and gobble up an increasing portion of Americans’ earnings and savings where a smaller and smaller percentage of the population is actually working while the government continues to spiral out of control in terms of growth. And productivity does not actually outpace all of the spending of government and the taxation of government.
That is the problem President Trump is facing.
The easy route for Democrats to take when things fall down because of all these giant programs that they themselves have enshrined is just to claim that capitalism failed.
At some point, Congress, particularly, is going to have to stand up and President Trump is going to have to start pushing for some real systemic change on the regulatory side.
He&#8217;s going to have to push for some real systemic change when it comes to these means-tested welfare programs.
If the premise of the current American political moment is that we are in a moment of scarcity with scarce resources, that we are in danger of being out-produced by countries like China, that the American budget is too large, that our tax burden is too high, and that we&#8217;re spending too much money, then we have to look at the right places. Looking at the wrong places does not lead to solving the problem, and then things will go from bad to worse.
And that’s the only hope Democrats have.

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Newly-ousted host Joy Reid gave a tearful interview just hours after it was reported that her 7 p.m. daily show &#8220;The Reidout&#8221; was being canceled — and that she was leaving MSNBC entirely as a result.
Reid made an appearance on a Sunday episode of the &#8220;Win With Black Women&#8221; podcast, where she talked about the breaking news and doubled down on positions she&#8217;d taken over the years with MSNBC.
&#8220;I’ve been through every emotion from, you know, anger, rage, disappointment, hurt, you know, a feeling that, you know, guilt. You know, that I let my team lose their jobs,&#8221; Reid said. &#8220;But in the end, where I really land and where I’ve landed on today is just gratitude. Just pure gratitude and gratitude — not just because people would take the time to get on a call like this or to take care of me, but also that my show had value and that &#8212; I’m sorry &#8212; that what I was doing had value.&#8221;
Reid apologized then for getting emotional, saying that sometimes the instinct was to feel guilt that she &#8220;went hard&#8221; on issues that she&#8217;d believed were important.
&#8220;Whether it was the Black Lives Matter issues of a young baby or a mom or dad that was killed, or when we opened up people’s eyes to the fact that Asian Americans were being targeted and not just black folks,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;That – or went hard for immigrants who’ve done nothing but come to this country like my parents did and try to make a life and defended them.&#8221;
&#8220;Or whether we’ve talked about what the president is doing that is subversive to the Constitution, that is injurious to our liberty, you know, defending books that people find inconvenient, you know, that Nikole Hannah-Jones put into our spirit that we need to understand 1619 as the real founding of this country,&#8221; Reid continued.
&#8220;Whether it’s talking about any of these issues and, yes, whether it’s talking about Gaza and the fact that we as the American people have a right to object, to have a right to object to little babies being bombed,&#8221; Reid concluded, making no mention of the Israeli babies who were killed on October 7th and in the months since. &#8220;And where I come down on that is, I’m not sorry. I am not sorry that I stood up for those things because those things are of God.&#8221;
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‘I’m Not Sorry’: Tearful Joy Reid Claims Her Anti-Trump, Anti-Israel Screeds Were ‘Of God’

'I'm Not Sorry': Tearful Joy Reid Claims Her Anti-Trump, Anti-Israel Screeds Were 'Of God'

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MSNBC may be dropping Joy Reid&#8217;s daily show &#8220;The Reidout&#8221; at the end of February, but a wide selection of the far-left host&#8217;s hot takes will live forever on the internet.
With just days to go before Reid is replaced by a trio of leftists — Symone Sanders-Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez — here are a few of the hottest of Reid&#8217;s hot takes from recent years.
<h4>That time she claimed that Joe Biden surviving COVID was no less bada** than Donald Trump surviving an assassination attempt.</h4>
&#8220;These two men are both elderly. Donald Trump is an elderly man who for whatever reason was given nine seconds to take a … iconic photo op during an active shooter situation — weird situation, we’ll figure that out one day,&#8221; Reid began.
&#8220;But his survival of that, and bouncing right back and going right to his convention is being conveyed in the media world as a sign of strength,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;This current President of the United States is 81 years old and has COVID. Should he be fine in a couple of days, doesn’t that convey exactly the same thing? That he’s strong enough — older than Trump — to have gotten something that used to really be fatal to people his age. So if he does fine out of it and comes back and he rallies, isn’t that exactly the same?&#8221;
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Throwback to when Joy Reid suggested that Trump surviving the shooting and going immediately to the RNC was be exactly the same as Joe Biden beating Covid and going to the DNC. Unsurprising her show is cancelled. <a href="https://t.co/gL0zENSuSf">pic.twitter.com/gL0zENSuSf</a>
&mdash; T.J. Moe (@TJMoe28) <a href="https://twitter.com/TJMoe28/status/1893656955316486633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<h4>Then there was the time she scolded minorities who supported Trump, claiming that they signed up for the &#8220;humiliation&#8221; that came with being in his orbit.</h4>
&#8220;Part of the price of MAGAdom, particularly if you are a person of color is to take the humiliation, you know? I mean, Nikki Haley was not even invited, she was ostentatiously disinvited from this convention. Yet, she still said, ‘I pledge all my delegates to Trump,’&#8221; Reid said.
&#8220;Tim Scott humiliated himself daily and then has continued to do so on this stage. I am stunned. And sad for him in the display he just did. But the humiliation of Tim Scott is part of the game and it’s part of the price,&#8221; she added, arguing that they also allowed Trump to &#8220;abuse&#8221; their communities. &#8220;Marco Rubio has been allowing himself to be humiliated by Donald Trump since he drank the tiny water bottle. Like, he’s never going to stop letting Trump humiliate him.&#8221;
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Joy Reid claims &quot;part of the price&quot; to be minority and in the MAGA movement is &quot;to take the humiliation.&quot; She lashes out at Tim Scott, Marco Rubio, and Byron Donalds and accuses them of enabling &quot;an abuse of these communities to make these people walk the plank.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/4lvK50T9uc">pic.twitter.com/4lvK50T9uc</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1813052352594694473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<h4>Who could forget the time she complained that Trump got a PR boost from getting shot during the rally in Butler, PA.</h4>
Demanding that the media stand up and &#8220;be the guardians of memory,&#8221; she fretted that the shooting would &#8220;allow Donald Trump, as he’s you know bathed in the glory and grandeur of his party to rewrite himself as both a hero and a victim that people who are the most vulnerable to not just the things he’s done but the things he’s promising to do, and that that will happen without a guardian saying wait, stop, and then the media will acquiesce to this rewrite.&#8221;
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Joy Reid fears that, after the assassination attempt on Trump, &quot;the media will acquiesce&quot; to Republicans and not label Trump &quot;the greatest purveyor and promoter of political violence&#8230;since George Wallace.&quot;
She doesn&#39;t want Trump to &quot;rewrite himself as a victim.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/f5QSVcYwkO">pic.twitter.com/f5QSVcYwkO</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1812991398758486524?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<h4>She not only bought into the notion that the legal cases against Trump would be what ended his political career, but was convinced that they were evidence of &#8220;racially-based vengeance.&#8221;</h4>
&#8220;But for me, there is something wonderfully poetic about the fact … the first person to actually criminally prosecute Donald Trump is a black Harvard grad,” Reid said. “The very kind of person that his former staff, the people who worked for him, Steven Miller, etc., want to never be at Harvard Law School. But he was. And he came out and graduated, and he’s prosecuting you, Donald.”
Reid went on to reference Willis in Georgia and New York Attorney General Letitia James, noting their roles in other cases against the former president.
“And a black woman is doing that same exact thing in Georgia and a black woman forced you to pay a $175 million fine,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Donald Trump is being held to account by the very multicultural, multiracial democracy that he’s trying to dismantle. … It says something good about our country that we’re still capable of having that happen. Go, DEI. My DEIs are bringing it home.&#8221;
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Joy Reid suggests that the criminal cases brought against Trump is racially-based vengeance by black officials:
&quot;Go DEI. My DEIs are bringing it home.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/r9THOyWMGn">pic.twitter.com/r9THOyWMGn</a>
&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1780345671163273582?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<h4>She even compared calls to protect the southern border to the old south&#8217;s resistance to racial integration.</h4>
Reid complained that Republicans had the ability to come up with a real solution to the illegal immigration problem, but &#8220;they just refuse to do it because many Republicans now see calling for zero tolerance on the border as the only way to animate their base.”
She concluded the thought by claiming that Texas Republicans sounded “like the old southerners who said that we will resist integration by any means necessary.&#8221;
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MSNBC&#39;s Joy Reid compares <a href="https://twitter.com/chiproytx?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@chiproytx</a>&#39;s call to protect the southern border to &quot;the old Southerners who said that we will resist integration by any means necessary&quot;. To the racial demagogue, everything looks like racism. <a href="https://t.co/a876itUHCb">pic.twitter.com/a876itUHCb</a>
&mdash; Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) <a href="https://twitter.com/BonillaJL/status/1750358635534848375?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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MSNBC is axing far left host Joy Reid&#8217;s 7pm show, &#8220;The Reidout,&#8221; as ratings flip-flop in the wake of President Donald Trump&#8217;s second inauguration — but if the batters on deck to take Reid&#8217;s place are any indication, the network has no interest in embracing an ideological shift.
Variety reported that Reid&#8217;s final episode is set to air in the last week of February — and other reports indicate that Reid, much like former CNN anchor Jim Acosta, plans to leave the network entirely. Alex Wagner, who hosts weeknights at 9pm except for the Mondays hosted by longtime network star Rachel Maddow, is also out.
But reports also indicate that despite the shake-up, the network is not going to change direction anytime soon.
Sliding into Reid&#8217;s slot on Mondays will be the trio that currently hosts &#8220;The Weekend&#8221; on Saturday and Sunday mornings: Symone Sanders-Townsend, who previously worked for Bernie Sanders&#8217; 2016 presidential campaign and former President Joe Biden&#8217;s 2020 campaign in addition to working for former Vice President Kamala Harris; former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, who has been sliding progressively leftward since leaving the party; and Alicia Menendez, daughter of disgraced  former Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ).
Sanders-Townsend, Steele, and Menendez will get two hours on Mondays beginning at 7pm ET, and one hour at 7pm Tuesday through Friday.
Wagner&#8217;s spot will go at least in part to current the Sunday morning host of &#8220;Inside with Psaki,&#8221; former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki. Wagner&#8217;s title will be changed to &#8220;contributor.&#8221;
Newly-named MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler, who was just named to the position on February 12, is said to be behind the changes. SpinCO CEO Mark Lazarus promoted Kutler from interim president to president, saying that he believed she was the one to move the recently-spun off network forward.
&#8220;In the short time that Rebecca was the interim president, it became clear to me that she has the big-picture strategic view and the right leadership skills to ensure MSNBC delivers on its brand promise and is positioned for growth during a time of industry change,&#8221; he said at the time.

MSNBC Axes Joy Reid’s Show As Ratings Yo-yo. Who They’re Bringing In Proves They’ve Learned Nothing.

MSNBC Axes Joy Reid's Show As Ratings Yo-yo. Who They're Bringing In Proves They've Learned Nothing.

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Far-Left MSNBC host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joy-reid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joy Reid</a> falsely claimed Wednesday night that Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro was funded by an oligarch.
During MSNBC’s coverage of President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>’s farewell address, Reid claimed that Shapiro and other conservatives were being propped up by a hidden group of wealthy oligarchs. Reid made the comment after Biden used his speech to claim that there was a rising American “oligarchy” endangering the country.
“And these oligarchs, they’ve always been there. Who do you think was paying for, you know Rush Limbaugh? He was a very wealthy man. Fox is owned by an oligarch. Who do they think is funding the Ben Shapiro [Show] and other podcasts?” Reid claimed. 
“The oligarchy has been hidden in the background the whole time and Biden is this pivot president as America is hurtling toward sort of falling in love with these rich tech gods, these tech bros,” Reid added, seeming to take a shot at Trump ally Elon Musk, who is promising to bring reform to the government. 
Reid was mocked online for the claim, including by Daily Wire co-founder Jeremy Boreing, who pointed out Shapiro helped to create The Daily Wire, which generated over $200 million in revenue last year.  
“In which Joy Reid &#8211; who reportedly makes over $3M a year &#8211; claims Ben Shapiro is funded by an oligarch when, in fact, the company he helped create generated well over $200M last year in advertising and subscription revenue (plus a few razor sales!),” he said. “Joy Reid lives in such a bubble she doesn&#8217;t know there is an actual audience for conservative ideas, and she is so economically illiterate she doesn&#8217;t know how value is created.”
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In which Joy Reid &#8211; who reportedly makes over $3M a year &#8211; claims Ben Shapiro is funded by an oligarch when, in fact, the company he helped create generated well over $200M last year in advertising and subscription revenue (plus a few razor sales!).
Joy Reid lives in such a… <a href="https://t.co/ci9vvFdZTv">pic.twitter.com/ci9vvFdZTv</a>
— Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing/status/1879927117128794291?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Daily Wire creates value, and we&#8217;re always working to create more,” he added. “Still, if there are any oligarchs out there who would like to fund us, I can only say we may not be very good, but we&#8217;re real expensive…”
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Reid made her claims when reacting to Biden&#8217;s assertions that the United States was being taken over by an “oligarchy.” 
“Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power, and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead,” Biden <a href="https://www.kshb.com/politics/the-president/biden-says-oligarchy-is-taking-shape-in-america-in-farewell-speech">claimed</a>. “We see the consequences all across America. And we’ve seen it before, more than a century ago.”

‘Economically Illiterate’: Joy Reid Slammed After Saying Ben Shapiro Is Funded By Oligarch

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Far-left MSNBC host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joy-reid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joy Reid</a> complained Tuesday night on the network that President-elect Donald Trump was pressuring the Hamas terrorist organization to release the dozens of hostages that remain inside Gaza.
Reid compared Trump to mob boss Tony Soprano from the hit HBO show &#8220;The Sopranos,&#8221; complaining that he was &#8220;muscling other countries&#8221; on social media, like threatening BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — with tariffs if they moved away from the U.S. dollar.
Reid then complained that Trump was &#8220;demanding Hamas release all hostages being held in Gaza before his inauguration, or there will be, &#8216;all hell to pay in the Middle East.'&#8221;
An estimated 63 hostages are still alive inside Gaza after they were kidnapped from their homes by Hamas during the Iranian-backed terrorist group&#8217;s unprecedented attack on October 7 last year. Several Americans are believed to still be alive.
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HAHAHAHA Joy Reid is melting down over Trump joking about annexing Canada and threatening Hamas
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— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1864108104041836898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-calls-on-hamas-to-release-hostages-or-there-will-be-all-hell-to-pay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> a statement on Truth Social after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said this week that American-Israeli hostage Omer Neutra — who for months was thought to be alive in Hamas captivity — was killed on October 7, 2023, and his body has been held by the terrorists in the Gaza Strip.
“Everybody is talking about the hostages who are being held so violently, inhumanely, and against the will of the entire World, in the Middle East – But it’s all talk, and no action!” he wrote. “Please let this TRUTH serve to represent that if the hostages are not released prior to January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume Office as President of the United States, there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against Humanity. Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America. RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW!”
Hamas murdered 1,200+ people during the attack, wounded thousands more, and took hundreds hostage. The attack ignited a multi-front war throughout the Middle East against Iranian-backed terrorist groups outside of Gaza, including Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and various groups in Iraq and Syria.
The conflict has also erupted into a direct shooting war between Israel and Iran after Iran fired hundreds of missiles in response to Israel killing top terrorist leaders.
Zach Jewell contributed to this report.

Joy Reid Complains Trump Is Trying To Get Hostages Back From Hamas

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Far-Left MSNBC personality <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joy-reid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joy Reid</a> said this week that alleged “vulnerable” communities have a genuine fear of President-elect Donald Trump’s supporters and that people do not feel “safe” around them.
Reid made the remarks in a social media video that went viral this week in which she claimed that people were “rightfully alarmed” by Trump’s victory.
“They have a reason to be alarmed,” she said. “And if you would vote for that, people may not feel so confident that they are safe with you.”
“This is not crazy,” she continued. “This is legitimate feelings of fear of you. And a feeling that you might not be someone they can trust, if this thing goes way south. Autocracies go south real fast, and things get ugly and people get asked to do things and turn people in and point people out and turn on them.”
She said that Trump supporters would have to “live with” the people’s reactions to them having voted to support Trump.
“If you think you can vote for what people see as their destruction and then demand that they&#8217;re still cool with you and have Thanksgiving with you, you are kind of missing the point about what people are upset about,” she said. “They’re afraid. Autocracy and fascism are things that are legitimate to be afraid of. So you might want to step back.”
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MSNBC host Joy Reid: Stay away from pro Trump family members since they ENDED democracy, may turn you in <a href="https://t.co/3v1UGKeSdT">pic.twitter.com/3v1UGKeSdT</a>
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1859968533721198609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
Earlier this month, Reid platformed Yale University chief psychiatry resident Dr. Amanda Calhoun on her MSNBC show “The Reidout” where she proceeded to call for people to cut off their Trump supporting family members for the holidays.
She said that the societal norm is that “if somebody is your family, that they are entitled to your time.”
“And I think the answer is absolutely not,” she said. “So if you are going to a situation where you have family members, where you have close friends who you know have voted in ways that are against you, like what you said, against your livelihood, it’s completely fine to not be around those people and to tell them why, to say, ‘I have a problem with the way that you voted because it went against my very livelihood, and I’m not going to be around you this holiday. I need to take some space for me.'&#8221;
She said that it “may be essential” for people’s mental health to “establish boundaries” with their family members over the results of the election.
“People are concerned about their human rights, their existence, their safety,” she claimed. “And I think you know when we’re talking about people who are worried about, you know, getting gender affirming care. We’re talking about people who are worried about being able to get access to women’s health care, to, you know, life saving procedures to abortions.”
“That has a very, very devastating downstream effect on one’s mental health,” she added. “And when, you know, as a psychiatrist, the child psychiatrist, but I also work with adults, we also see a lot of children who are born to parents who are struggling. They might have mental health issues, and those children sometimes develop very severe behavioral problems, suicidality, and I have a lot of concerns about the support that those kids are going to have going forward.”

Joy Reid To Trump Supporters: People Don’t Feel ‘Safe With You,’ Have ‘Legitimate Fear’ Of You

Far-left <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/msnbc">MSNBC</a> host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joy-reid">Joy Reid</a> joined the leftist exodus from the social media platform <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/twitter">X</a> following Trump’s victory last week.
The X profile for her MSNBC show “The ReidOut” still appears active, but the host’s personal account has been deactivated. Reid explained her reasons for leaving the platform in a video.
“Today I finally did something I’ve been meaning to do for a while,” she said in the clip posted to <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@joyreidofficial/video/7436979734317108510?lang=en">TikTok</a>. “The reason for doing it, and kissing goodbye [to] my 1.9 million followers, is because I haven’t been posting for a long time. I just didn’t want to be contributing content once it was purchased by its present owner.”
The host said she was fed up with “negativity” on X.
“Every so often, I would use it to just look at news that was trending and what’s happening and I would just use it as an aggregator, but I just realized that’s not really worth it,” she added. “Because in order to do the news aggregation and just look at all, you have to wade through a lot of dreck and just abuse and a lot of negativity, and it’s just not worth it.”
Many other leftists have also left X in recent days. The U.K.-based news outlet The Guardian announced this week it will no longer post on X from its official accounts, citing “disturbing content.” NPR also stopped using X after the platform added a “state-affiliated media” tag to NPR’s profile.
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Former CNN host Don Lemon said he was leaving the social media platform, claiming it’s no longer a place for “honest” debate following Trump’s big win.
“I once believed that it was a place for honest debate and discussion, transparency and free speech, but I now feel it does not serve that purpose,” Lemon said on Wednesday.
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis also left X this week, but didn’t state a specific reason. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,” Curtis wrote on Instagram. “Courage to change the things I can. And the wisdom to know the difference.”
Meanwhile, British actor Ricky Gervais <a href="https://x.com/rickygervais/status/1857116329125294490">posted</a> an announcement of his own, stating, “I’m not leaving here by the way. I’m on Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky &amp; Threads now, but I’ll always be a Twitter guy. (Never calling it X) Cheers!”

MSNBC Host Joy Reid Becomes Latest Lib To Quit X Following Trump’s Triumph

MSNBC Host Joy Reid Becomes Latest Lib To Quit X Following Trump's Triumph

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/yale-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yale psychiatrist</a> said this week that it was &#8220;essential&#8221; for those who are triggered by the outcome of the election to cut off members of their family for the holidays who voted for President-elect Donald Trump.
Yale University chief psychiatry resident Dr. Amanda Calhoun made the remarks on far-left MSNBC host Joy Reid&#8217;s show &#8220;The Reidout&#8221; while talking about the election.
She said that the societal norm is that &#8220;if somebody is your family, that they are entitled to your time.&#8221;
&#8220;And I think the answer is absolutely not,&#8221; she said. &#8220;So if you are going to a situation where you have family members, where you have close friends who you know have voted in ways that are against you, like what you said, against your livelihood, it&#8217;s completely fine to not be around those people and to tell them why, to say, &#8216;I have a problem with the way that you voted because it went against my very livelihood, and I&#8217;m not going to be around you this holiday. I need to take some space for me.'&#8221;
She said that it &#8220;may be essential&#8221; for people&#8217;s mental health to &#8220;establish boundaries&#8221; with their family members over the results of the election.
&#8220;People are concerned about their human rights, their existence, their safety,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;And I think you know when we&#8217;re talking about people who are worried about, you know, getting gender affirming care. We&#8217;re talking about people who are worried about being able to get access to women&#8217;s health care, to, you know, life saving procedures to abortions.&#8221;
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&#8220;That has a very, very devastating downstream effect on one&#8217;s mental health,&#8221; she added. &#8220;And when, you know, as a psychiatrist, the child psychiatrist, but I also work with adults, we also see a lot of children who are born to parents who are struggling. They might have mental health issues, and those children sometimes develop very severe behavioral problems, suicidality, and I have a lot of concerns about the support that those kids are going to have going forward.&#8221;
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Yale University child psychiatry fellow Dr. Amanda Calhoun went on MSNBC to encourage people to shun their family members over the holidays for Voting for Trump:
“If you are going through a situation where you have family members or you have close friends who you know have voted… <a href="https://t.co/eoPpnsckkT">pic.twitter.com/eoPpnsckkT</a>
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) <a href="https://twitter.com/alx/status/1855348862346740001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2024</a></blockquote>

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Yale Psychiatrist: It ‘May Be Essential’ For Kamala Voters To Cut Off Trump-Voting Family For Holidays

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There was a mildly successful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkzAgsOQJQE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commercial</a> back in 2016 where LeBron James was promoting Sprite. He keeps looking into the camera and saying, &#8220;I won&#8217;t tell you to drink a Sprite.&#8221; It&#8217;s supposed to be engaging and funny because you see, normally, when celebrities appear in advertisements, they tell you to buy a product. But here you had LeBron James, appearing in a Sprite commercial, refusing to endorse Sprite. It really subverted everyone&#8217;s expectations.
Reverse psychology like this has become popular in advertising because the typical direct, straightforward celebrity endorsement doesn&#8217;t have the same impact that it once did. This is also why the idea of &#8220;reverse endorsements&#8221; has become a thing. This is when a company puts a celebrity on its board of directors to make them seem really invested in the company, when it&#8217;s basically a no-show job. Derek Jeter had a &#8220;reverse endorsement&#8221; <a href="https://www.lawjournalnewsletters.com/2016/10/18/jeter-endorsement-dispute-examines-role-as-a-director-of-apparel-company/?srsltid=AfmBOopnBt1NPpb0WFiFsazkLNHD4cPHVt___A7Xqh7cNIaYkWtRI7QP&amp;slreturn=20241107193919" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deal</a> with a company called RevolutionWear, that makes some kind of high-tech underwear. It all fell apart and ended in lawsuits when the company collapsed, because the world of high-tech underwear is apparently extremely cutthroat.
But the point is, this underwear company thought they&#8217;d get more value out of presenting Derek Jeter as a &#8220;director&#8221; of the company, rather than just going with the normal, direct celebrity endorsement. There are about a million other examples of this, because the memo has gone out. In the entertainment world, traditional celebrity endorsements aren&#8217;t as interesting as they used to be. If you want a celebrity endorsement to have an impact, you have to get creative with it. And even then, most people probably still won&#8217;t care.
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The only people who haven&#8217;t gotten this memo are in politics. Political endorsements by celebrities are all the same. They&#8217;re unconvincing, uncreative and patronizing. And yet for some reason, pundits and political strategists on the Left genuinely believe that these endorsements are game-changing. They think that, once the normal person hears one of these endorsements, they undergo a form of mind control where they&#8217;re hopeless to resist.
I&#8217;ve shared part of this clip before, but it&#8217;s worth seeing again because it may be the single best reaction video from MSNBC after they realized Trump was winning. This is Joy Reid trying to process how Donald Trump could have possibly defeated Kamala Harris. After all, Kamala Harris ran a &#8220;flawless campaign.&#8221; And as evidence of the proposition that Kamala Harris ran a &#8220;flawless campaign,&#8221; Joy Reid cites all of Kamala Harris&#8217; celebrity endorsements. This is footage that belongs in a museum for future historians studying the downfall of the Democrat Party and the corporate press. Watch:
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If you still haven&#39;t figured out the problem with the legacy media, this comment by Joy Ann Reid should set you straight. Reid says Harris ran a &quot;flawless&quot; campaign to the point that Beyonce, Taylor Swift, and &quot;even&quot; Queen Latifah who never endorses anyone, endorsed Harris. <a href="https://t.co/N8IwIplhKn">pic.twitter.com/N8IwIplhKn</a>
&mdash; Rupa Subramanya (@rupasubramanya) <a href="https://twitter.com/rupasubramanya/status/1854191530400997546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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There&#8217;s a lot to consider in that clip, but really at this point you can&#8217;t be mad at Joy Reid. Everyone knows she is what we may call, politely, a very special person. What&#8217;s kind of remarkable is that everyone else on the panel — people who are extremely partisan, but not clinically insane — just nod along when she makes this claim. She&#8217;s suggesting that a political endorsement by Queen Latifah is so rare and enigmatic that, if a candidate should ever obtain it, then that candidate must be blessed by the gods. That candidate would be destined to win. I guess that makes sense. She is royalty after all.
But that was a moment that should&#8217;ve been a bridge too far, even for an MSNBC panel. For one thing, the premise isn&#8217;t even true. We&#8217;re talking about the same &#8220;Queen Latifah&#8221; who performed at Obama&#8217;s inauguration after telling people to vote for hope and change. And then she did a skit with Kamala Harris just a few months ago at the &#8220;NAACP Image Awards,&#8221; telling everyone to register to vote because otherwise Trump will win. Yes, this is the Queen Latifah that supposedly never gets involved in politics.
But on top of that, even if we pretend Queen Latifah never gets involved in politics, the idea that her endorsement will sway anyone — or that it&#8217;s a sign of a &#8220;flawless campaign&#8221; — suggests that Democrats are suffering from a level of delusion that is truly unprecedented. And that becomes even more apparent when you look at this vaunted Queen Latifah endorsement they&#8217;re talking about. 
She just sits in a chair and, instead of talking about makeup, she reads off some talking points from Kamala Harris&#8217; campaign. Watch:
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Today, so much is on the line.
On one hand, we have HIM, a felon, a comfortable liar, an impeached president, a misogynist, and a non-leader who doesn’t care about anyone, but the top 1%&#8230;which excludes over 300M Americans.
And on the other hand, we have HER, Kamala Harris, a… <a href="https://t.co/6EhUwaa2z9">pic.twitter.com/6EhUwaa2z9</a>
&mdash; Queen Latifah (@IAMQUEENLATIFAH) <a href="https://twitter.com/IAMQUEENLATIFAH/status/1853728277447446780?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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One of the many amusing things about this video is the comments section, and how it differs depending on the platform. If you go on Instagram, a lot of the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/queenlatifah/reel/DB-94jSRJtS/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comments</a> are pretty supportive. There&#8217;s people posting heart emojis everywhere, saying it&#8217;s a powerful message, and how Queen Latifah is their hero and so on. One person wrote, &#8220;I’m going to always love you Queen Latifah ! Never change.&#8221;
And then you go on X, and it&#8217;s a completely different scenario. It&#8217;s like stepping out of a country club and into the Vietnam War. The top <a href="https://x.com/hodgetwins/status/1853816198627999886" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comment</a> is, &#8220;Did you go to the Diddy parties too?&#8221; The next <a href="https://x.com/apst_paul_Adams/status/1853752752205111495" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one</a> is, &#8220;How much were you paid?&#8221; And then <a href="https://x.com/VernonForGA/status/1853770039305945296" target="_blank" rel="noopener">there&#8217;s</a>, &#8220;Another weak man for Kamala.&#8221; It&#8217;s just brutal, if also hilarious, and completely justified.
It&#8217;s yet another reason the Left wants to destroy X. People on X generally reflect what&#8217;s going on in the country. But if you spend all your time on Reddit or Instagram, you might end up like Joy Reid. You might have thought Kamala Harris had this in the bag. After all, Queen Latifah&#8217;s on her side, and everyone else on the platform loves it. And then you go on X and everyone&#8217;s wondering how much she was paid.
Now, to be clear, I&#8217;m not saying Queen Latifah was paid for this endorsement. I would never suggest such a thing. But in general, it is worth noting that the Kamala Harris campaign raised something like $1 billion dollars, and they ended the campaign in debt by $20 million dollars. They had $120 million in the bank just a month ago, and now they&#8217;re in the red. And a lot of that money probably did go to some celebrity performances, like the one Megan Thee Stallion did at a Kamala rally. But in any event, it&#8217;s clear that this was a horribly managed campaign in every respect. So it&#8217;s not exactly unthinkable that these people truly thought an endorsement by Queen Latifah would help them win. They really seemed to think that people wanted to see stuff like this.
That would explain why they courted the endorsement of Cardi B, who&#8217;s so illiterate that it actually caused problems for the campaign. Mid-endorsement, her teleprompter went out, so she couldn&#8217;t say anything until someone ran up with a phone containing her prepared statement. Watch:
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🔥🚨BREAKING: Rapper Cardi B’s teleprompter broke when she took the stage at Kamala Harris rally in Wisconsin and Cardi had to wait in front of a live audience for over a minute until a stranger brought her a cell phone with a script. This tells you everything you need to know. <a href="https://t.co/kKL7q1lw35">pic.twitter.com/kKL7q1lw35</a>
&mdash; Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) <a href="https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1852543848959905827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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You have to wonder, again, who this is supposed to impress. Even if she had read all of that perfectly, who exactly is supposed to care about this? What demographic are they targeting?
Whatever they were going for, it didn&#8217;t work. Pretty much the only demographic group that Kamala Harris won on Tuesday, according to exit polls, was the same group Joy Reid belongs to: black women. She won by something like 92%. It&#8217;s a two-percent improvement from Joe Biden two years ago. But both of these numbers are actually low, by Democrats&#8217; standards. Obama got more than 95% of the vote from black women. Hillary Clinton got 94%. So if anything, there&#8217;s some evidence that endorsements like this aren&#8217;t really helping, even among Democrats&#8217; most loyal constituency.
The Guardian certainly seems to think there&#8217;s a good chance these endorsements aren&#8217;t helping anywhere. They just ran a big article that explores the question of why all these celebrities, from Bruce Springsteen to George Clooney to Taylor Swift, may have actually been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/nov/06/celebrity-endorsements-didnt-help-kamala-harris-taylor-swift-beyonce">counterproductive</a>: 
<blockquote>A poll from YouGov shortly after [Taylor] Swift’s endorsement found that only 8% of voters would be &#8216;somewhat&#8217; or &#8216;much more&#8217; likely to vote for Harris – with a surprising 20% saying the endorsement actually made them less likely to vote for her.</blockquote>
Yes, as we talked about at the time, Taylor Swift&#8217;s endorsement might have made people less likely to support Kamala Harris. And there&#8217;s evidence this took the Harris campaign by surprise. 
The article also <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/nov/06/celebrity-endorsements-didnt-help-kamala-harris-taylor-swift-beyonce">states</a>:
<blockquote>Back in July, Charli xcx posted a three-word tweet that some commentators thought might help swing the US election. Arriving the day after Kamala Harris announced her bid for the presidency, Charli’s tweet said simply: &#8216;Kamala IS Brat.&#8217; It was a reference to Charli’s latest album, Brat, which had dominated the pop cultural landscape &#8230; The overall meaning was clear: Kamala was the presidential candidate with the most energy and authenticity. &#8230;. The Harris campaign leaned into the endorsement, changing the backdrop of its official X page to the same garish green colour used on the record’s sleeve. &#8230; Yet as the dust settles on an extremely depressing election result, it appears clear that not only did Charli xcx’s tweet have no meaningful impact on the election result, nor did the endorsement of any celebrity.</blockquote>
This was a big problem for Kamala because, to the extent she had a campaign strategy at all, it hinged almost entirely on endorsements. Kamala was endorsed by all of the most famous celebrities in Hollywood and the music industry. It paid off with a crushing and historic defeat. Why might that be?
Unlike the panel on MSNBC, I&#8217;ll answer that question. For one thing, as I mentioned earlier, celebrity endorsements in general aren&#8217;t that effective anymore. But they&#8217;re particularly ineffective right now, when inflation is high and people are struggling to afford essentials. In an economic environment like that, Americans aren&#8217;t particularly interested in sermons from obscenely wealthy entertainers — not that they&#8217;re all that interested even in a good economy.
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The other problem is that the power of celebrity in general has been massively watered down in recent years. There are just so many of them that even the biggest ones (like Taylor Swift or Beyonce) don&#8217;t have the kind of culture-changing impact that Michael Jackson or Elvis had decades ago. When a woman can become famous by saying &#8220;Hawk Tuah,&#8221; the whole concept of a &#8220;celebrity&#8221; loses a lot of its luster. 
This has been obvious to everyone for some time, which is why a lot of celebrities have found new ways to endorse products, like those &#8220;reverse endorsement&#8221; deals that I mentioned. But apparently, it wasn&#8217;t obvious to the Kamala Harris campaign. They believed, in all seriousness, that amassing a bunch of these vapid, cookie-cutter endorsements would win them the election. They thought Americans cared so little about substance that they&#8217;d vote for a candidate who can barely articulate a coherent thought, all because of the endorsements of some other morons who also can&#8217;t articulate coherent thoughts. After what happened on Tuesday, there&#8217;s no one — except maybe MSNBC anchors — who seriously thinks that these celebrities have any sway over anyone anymore.

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