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kpete

(71,900 posts)
Sun Jan 7, 2018, 05:10 PM Jan 2018

Joy-Ann Reid shuts down apologist journalist attempting to appease Trump

Joy-Ann Reid, the only adult in the room that was never gullible about Trump, had the perfect response.

"But must he have some involvement?" Joy-Ann Reid asked sarcastically. "Because I think if Donald Trump is also impaired because I think one of the most frightening revelations were about the potential that Donald Trump is not in possession of his cognitive faculties. Because if there is a policy agenda going on, it's not clear that it's Donald Trump's. It is very clear Mitch McConnell said he would sign anything we put in front of him. The idea that people who have agendas, people like Steve Bannon by the way, who just saw Trump as a pure vehicle, it doesn't matter what Donald Trump does. They can lock him in his room with a cheeseburger in his bed all day, And they can do whatever they want. And that means that agendas that were not voted for by the majority of the American people, these are not people that are accountable to the American people, can literally do what they want."


There was an audible gasp from the entire panel over Joy-Ann Reid's cheeseburger comment as if that revelation wasn't a known. TEA Party and Right Wingers come on these shows and spew nonsense and never get that disrespectful reaction. The establishment journalists gasp at a progressive stating inconvenient truths to the boring establishment narrative.

It was refreshing watching Reid not allow a placating narrative. Progressives must do this at every opportunity.



VIDEO:


https://egbertowillies.com/2018/01/07/joy-ann-reid-stop-trump-media-rehab/
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Joy-Ann Reid shuts down apologist journalist attempting to appease Trump (Original Post) kpete Jan 2018 OP
Audible gasps from Trump-pumpers are hilariously ironic. dchill Jan 2018 #1
You're not alone NastyRiffraff Jan 2018 #4
Good on her.. whathehell Jan 2018 #2
Joy-Ann Reid keeps me going oldtime dfl_er Jan 2018 #3
As yes, David Brooks...the guy who said in 2000 that we needed to get into some kind of war Ken Burch Jan 2018 #5

dchill

(38,320 posts)
1. Audible gasps from Trump-pumpers are hilariously ironic.
Sun Jan 7, 2018, 05:16 PM
Jan 2018

Also: Joy-Ann Reid should have a weeknight primetime show. I'm sure I'm not alone in my thinking.

 

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
5. As yes, David Brooks...the guy who said in 2000 that we needed to get into some kind of war
Sun Jan 7, 2018, 06:47 PM
Jan 2018

in order to avoid turning into Belgium(apparently, we were on the verge of dividing ourselves into French-or Flemish-speaking factions and eating delicious chocolates whole enjoying mild social democracy).

(He said this in the AARP Journal, in one of their millennium issues).

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