MSNBC’s Joy Reid Under Fire for ‘Appalling’ Steve Scalise Comments

[GazzaQueen]

link

It's a yes or no question. Last chance.

[evince]

what you gonna kill me

Link to your claim of a quote asshole

I don't believe he said it because you lie

[GazzaQueen]

My grandmother used to sit in her chair and knit for hours on end.

[domer76]

His crusade ended up with him dead (by guns) and his targets alive.

Maybe you should take it as a sign.

Yep, sure did. The ultimate sacrifice for the precious 2nd!

[domer76]

We don't stifle 1st Amendment free speech because one person abuses it. Nor the 2nd because someone else does the same.

Yeah, we do. We stifle the fucker that yells "fire" in a crowded theater. We keep guns out of the hands of people deemed mentally incapable of managing their own affairs. That is, until Orangetweet allows it.

[MAGA MAN]

"You would"?

lol

Keep flailing, you poor bitch.

Keep shitting your pants and blaming Trump lol

[domer76]

Keep shitting your pants and blaming Trump lol

(laughing)

"If/would", motherfucker.

Keep making things up.

[GazzaQueen]

Yeah, we do. We stifle the fucker that yells "fire" in a crowded theater. We keep guns out of the hands of people deemed mentally incapable of managing their own affairs. That is, until Orangetweet allows it.

The POTUS simply wants to get rid of so many crazy Dems, one at a time. You're up.

[MAGA MAN]

(laughing)

"If/would", motherfucker.

Keep making things up.

OK skidmark. Or should I call you "lumpy" lol?

[domer76]

OK skidmark. Or should I call you "lumpy" lol?

"Woulda, shoulda, coulda", bitch.

[MAGA MAN]

"Woulda, shoulda, coulda", bitch.

Lumpy it is lol

[christiefan915]

Why should a man of his record be enshrined?

This is too funny. trump trashed everybody during the last two years with rude, ugly insults... men, women, rich, poor, sick, well, attractive, unattractive... and cons not only overlooked it, they applauded it. And now they're outraged?

[Cancel 2018.2]

Why should a man of his record be enshrined?

Who said he should be enshrined? You're clueless, as usual.

[Cypress]

MSNBC’s “AM Joy” host Joy Reid is receiving criticism for attacking the politics of House majority whip Steve Scalise, who is still in the hospital after a gunman opened fired last week on the GOP Congressional baseball team.

“It’s a delicate thing because, obviously everybody is wishing the congressman well and hoping that he recovers. But Steve Scalise has a history that we’ve all been forced to sort of ignore on race,” Reid said over the weekend.

Reid continued: “He did come to leadership after some controversy over attending a White nationalists event, which he says he didn’t know what it was. Because he is in jeopardy and everyone is pulling for him, are we required in a moral sense to put that aside?”


While Reid was making these comments, an on-screen graphic showed Scalise’s record highlighting his more polarizing decisions, such as sponsoring a bill to define marriage as between a man and a women.

The MSNBC host also sent out a tweet that said,

On Monday, Fox News media guru Howie Kurtz was still upset about Reid’s comments, calling her “appalling.”

“While Steve Scalise remains in a hospital bed fighting for his life, she’s attacking him because she doesn’t like his politics,” Kurtz said. “For Joy Reid to tweet that Scalise was attacked by a white man… why bring race into it?”

The Hill media columnist Joe Concha made a prediction about the situation, “Here’s how the Joy Reid thing unfolds: She goes viral for profoundly reckless/myopic Scalise tweet. Blowback ensues. Forced apology follows.”
https://www.yahoo.com/tv/msnbc-joy-r...152848003.html

I do not think she did anything wrong, and this strikes me as another manifestation of selective outrage, fabricated by the rightwing outrage industry. In fact, I bet you didn't even come up with this outrage angle on your own, but it is something you found on a rightwing blog and decided to rush over here and parrot it.

From what I could see, she showed the proper level of tact and maturity by wishing him a speedy recovery.

His voting record and activities are a matter of public record. Unless he is ashamed of voting against marriage equality and associating with white nationalists, why wouldn't his career be a matter of public discourse?

As a sidebar: During my adventures on the interwebs, I saw little to no outrage or defense of Michelle Obama from righwingers when she was called a chimpanzee, or a gorilla in heels. So I will say in parting, spare me the crocodile tears unless and until the faux outrage becomes less selective.

[Cypress]

This is too funny. trump trashed everybody during the last two years with rude, ugly insults... men, women, rich, poor, sick, well, attractive, unattractive... and cons not only overlooked it, they applauded it. And now they're outraged?

For that matter, on almost a daily basis Trumtards on this board and others like it stand by in deafening silence while their fellow members of rightwing call black posters n***g**rs and female posters c*nts.

So, as far as I am concerned the wailing for "civility" and plaintiff expressions of faux outrage are not to be taken seriously. At all.