MSNBC hasn’t learned its lesson. That’s a good thing

Joy Reid was, by far, the worst on-air personality at MSNBC. Her show’s dwindling popularity was rivaled only by its lack of honesty, amounting to nothing but a nightly screech-fest against white people, fascism, President Donald Trump, and white people.

Rachel Maddow, who pushes the same conspiratorial nonsense as Reid with slightly more subtly and far more elitist arrogance, was supposedly appalled by Reid’s unseating at the network, taking time on Monday evening to address the “changes” at MSNBC.

"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'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," she said. "I love everything about her. I have learned so much from her. 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," she continued. "It is not my call, and I understand that, but that's what I think."

Maddow went on to describe the network’s cancellation of shows of “two non-white hosts” as “unnerving.”

"That feels indefensible, and I do not defend it,” she said.

Given her outrage, did the oh-so-principled Rachel Maddow offer her resignation in protest of the indefensible racism that has infected the halls of MSNBC? Of course not. I guess $25 million a year just tastes too good.

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