Editor’s note: typically when I write a Take Down piece for this website, it will revolve around a largely unknown, but laughably mendacious neoliberal Twitter user in the middle of some deplorably disingenuous meltdown or tirade of some kind; the highest profile “honoree” to show up in these take downs was author and noted Twitter meltdown artist Sady Doyle – and even then, only because she spent a half hour trying to harass me before publicly denying she’d been using bigoted attacks.
Today however, we’re going to make an exception on behalf of recently-enshrined but long-reviled Wall of Shamer, Joy-Ann Reid; who spent the better part of Friday, September 9th unsuccessfully trying to pass off the plot of a rejected Tom Clancy novel as factual news on her Twitter feed. As a result of Reid’s high profile role in the American news media and the disturbing propagation of what can only be called cold war era scaremongering in the modern, neoliberal media – this piece is really as much an examination of false media narratives as it is a savage indictment of Reid’s blatant dishonesty and arrogance.
First, we’ll talk a little bit about Reid’s meltdown, then we’ll take a look at how it fits into the larger, anti-Russian media narrative being sold to the American people on the regular these days.
As always please be reminded that although you should have no trouble understanding what I’m saying without clicking on the links I’ve provided throughout the article; your comprehension and enjoyment of the piece will almost certainly be improved by at least skimming the source material I’ve limked to. Please don’t yell at me about “sources” on social media if you can’t be bothered to click the links.
Hot to Trot-sky: Reid’s McCarthy Redux Moment
Now, before we get started I would like to
take a moment to point out that Joy-Ann Reid is a rising star in the
world of political television media who also happens to be a vocal,
successful and highly-educated (more on this later) African American
woman. This, undeniably makes her a lightning-rod of ignorant, bigoted criticism from the disturbingly large segment of “white America” that believes ending slavery was a bad thing; as well as men (and Anne Coulter) who feel awarding women the right to vote has directly lead to the decline of the American family.
Please allow me to assure you that I’m not
here to discuss anything “those people” would find interesting. I’m not
going to tell you that Joy-Ann is too loud, too female, too black or too
aggressive to be on network television and if the truth be told; I
really want to like Reid in my heart because the person she
pretends to be when she’s not shoveling corporatist, pro-Democratic
Party bullshit would be an important voice in our media.
Unfortunately, this is impossible because
Joy-Ann Reid is a lying, embarrassingly partisan, centrist propagandist
who is also either mindbogglingly fucking stupid or, more likely,
believes that you are. Please take a moment to examine the Twitter
screenshots I’ve compiled bellow and as you do so; keep in mind that all
of these tweets come from a single, twenty-four hour period on Reid’s
Twitter feed. As always I have not edited these tweets in any way,
although they may appear slightly out of order for the purposes of
proper presentation – I left the time stamps on most of them so you can
easily reconstruct the chronological order of Joy-Ann’s tweets on your
own if that matters to you for some reason:
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