Here was Joy Reid promoting the belief that CRT critics are Q-Anon people, saying opposition to CRT and teaching students to hate themselves are part of the "insidious underbelly of the GQP culture war" and "an all-out war for power" that's "steeped in...white nationalism"
After saying people who disagree with her offer "nothing" on policy, Joy Reid brings on the repulsive human being known as Ben Collins to say parents speaking out against CRT at school board mtgs are Q-Anon white supremacist terrorists. Oppose them? You're the enemy of the people
Collins then argues the campaign against Critical Race Theory and the speeches by parents is the latest work of the Q-Anon movement (and not parents genuinely concerned about the mental health of their kids). Reid replies with more strawmen about how the right views history.
Collins and Reid closed with more divisive, poisonous gaslighting to viewers, telling them that evangelical Christianity is a hotbed for Q-Anon followers with Q-Anon using Christian groups and now school board elections as new fronts to carry out their Great Awakening.
This rhetoric smearing parents who don't want their kids to kill themselves b/c they'll wish they were never born is going to get someone hurt. With Collins and Reid hurling such invective against parents who say "this isn't right" at school board mtgs, it's only a matter of time
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#BREAKING: Jeffrey Toobin RETURNS to CNN and will continue as their chief legal analyst despite having masturbated on a Zoom call. Speaking to Alisyn Camerota, he explains that he "wasn't thinking very well or very much, and it was something that was inexplicable to me."
Jeffrey Toobin on whether he's spoken to those who were on the Zoom call: "They were shocked and appalled. I think they realized that this was not intended for them."
Despite NOT losing his job at CNN, he says he's "privileged" that he will be able to "rebuild" his life.
Alisyn Camerota asks Toobin why he didn't "have better judgment" after having covered the stories of Bill Clinton, Eliot Spitzer, Donald Trump, and Anthony Weiner and Toobin's reply?
"Because I didn't have better judgment. Because I'm a flawed human being who makes mistakes."
#BREAKING: I have a HUGE update to this story about a Univision "reporter" telling Vice President Harris she "voted for" her in November. According to top @UnivisionNews personalities and execs tweeting at @MRCLatino's @BonillaJL, they're claiming she's NOT an actual employee.
This means either one of two things: 1. @UnivisionNews and @UnivisionPRTeam are lying to us and they have a journalistic scandal on their hands.
2. They broke through the @SecretService and the @VP's press team led by @SymoneDSanders, which would mean this was a security breach.
.@MarthaMacCallum is torching NIH Director Francis Collins over #FauciEmails. She asked about one w/the subject line "conspiracy gains momentum" re: the lab theory, but he lamented this is something he "never thought...would become a topic for Fox News" & they never dismissed it
YIKES: NIH Director Collins insists there needs to be "an evidence-based expert-driven open investigation" on the origins of the virus, but @MarthaMacCallum shot back that many claims were shot down if they were from the right. Collins confirms, saying many were too "outrageous"
.@MarthaMacCallum then asks about the NIH funding projects and gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but Collins gets upset, saying he's "a bit unhappy" and "disturbed" Martha is asking these questions. He adds we should look forward and not look back.
Former Bush official Matthew Dowd says Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, and Mitt Romney are insufficiently anti-GOP and, without saying it, demands they join the Democratic Party if they truly love America.
You cannot convince me that Nicolle Wallace doesn't hate if you don't think like she does. Here she is saying that Liz Cheney is insufficiently anti-Trump and anti-GOP and demands she prove her bona fides by helping Democrats pass the For the People Act if she cares about America
To the delight of Joy Reid and Nicolle Wallace, Matthew Dowd the says that, if you're Republican, you therefore support white supremacy and have been doing so since the 1990s when Newt Gingrich and Fox News destroyed America and made it more divisive and racist.
CRAZYTOWN: Joy Reid says you shouldn't believe anything you hear or see from police about the #MakhiaBryant shooting (which would include body camera footage) b/c it could be proven it was all a lie and the office was unjustified.
Besides, Bryant had cute TikTok videos!
NO JOKE...Joy Reid says knife fights happen all the time and people survive!
Reid's guest then condemned the actions of the police officer b/c it was "child here that was involved in an altercation with someone else."
So kids can wield weapons and you should just let them be?
Joy Reid insinuates the Columbus police officers responding to the scene of the #MakhiaBryant shooting had it out for black people because one of them had a Blue Lives Matter mask.
Reid also doubles on how you can't believe what your eyes tell you b/c...police lie all the time?
So if I have BLM's logic right, they're okay with non-police citizens being able to stab and shoot each other if you're of a certain race because police stopping them would mean....police brutality and racism?
We can't live in any sort of legitimate society where this is possible. It's really hard to even meet someone halfway if they immediately jump to call racism anytime there's a shooting of an armed individual looking to harm others
I mean, when you have threads of takes like these...