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Joy Reid May Be the 1st Celebrity Who Was Actually Hacked, and I Should Probably Be Mad About It
After screenshots of blog posts by Joy Reid surfaced last week, everyone, including me, shot the MSNBC host a healthy dose of side-eye when she explained away homophobic statements from as far back as 2006 by saying that her old blog was hacked. As far as excuses go, “I was hacked” trails only “He’s like…
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Joy Reid and Black Twitter Offer Several Seats to Killer Mike
It is a vicious, slow-spreading bacteria that has infected some of the most well-meaning people of our time. Most often poisoning pulpit dwellers, the malady causes the victim—who usually has insight in one particular area—to believe he is a genius with answers to everything, including economics, history, politics and even behavior. After studying the syndrome…
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What We Thought We Knew About Africa and Slavery Might Not Be Right
Circumstances More Complex Than Most Report Defiant Immigrant Dad Leads ‘CBS Evening News’ Sinclair Wants News Directors to Pay Into PAC Joy Reid ‘a Heroine of the Resistance’ 2 More Guilty of Being Both Cops, Robbers Loophole Lets Cops Evade Sexual Assault Charges Surprise! Bloomberg Has Workplace Diversity Beat Media Missing ‘Shock Doctrine’ in Puerto…
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Real Beauty: Is Truth in Advertising Finally Here?
“For my entire life, I’ve been sold the seduction of my inadequacy.” —Lupita Nyong’o Those are the words of a woman many consider one of the most beautiful in the world, who grew up, like many black and brown girls everywhere, not seeing images in the media that reflected herself and validated her beauty. Seth…
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Tucker Carlson Wants to Start a Race War So Bad, He’s Now Beefing With Joy Reid
On Tuesday night, Tucker Carlson—the political pundit, professional white person and proof that “mediocre-est” is a word—tipped the Las Vegas betting odds in his favor on which Fox News personality will eventually kick off the race war when he jump-started a new beef with MSNBC’s Joy-Ann Reid by saying that her “entire public career has…
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Pastor Mark Burns’ Arms Too Short to Box With Joy: ‘We’re Not Friends’
One good turn deserves another. And since Vice President Mike Pence was recently shamed by a pastor—actually, the man has no shame, so—since Pence was recently called out by a pastor, it’s only right that a pastor get a verbal drubbing of his own—just to show that all God’s children do not have traveling shoes…
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MSNBC’s Joy Reid Savages Joe Walsh After He Uses the N-Word on Twitter
MSNBC’s Joy Reid is known for her poise, intelligence and depth of knowledge about politics. But clearly she will cut you (with her words, of course) if you cross a line. As usual, former Republican Rep. Joe Walsh done danced all over that line and felt the wrath of Reid’s Twitter fingers for doing so.…
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‘Why Can’t I Be Proud to Be White?’ Punks, Policy and Praise at Politicon
Imagine a comic book convention where, instead of a panel of Avengers, you have a bunch of hosts from SiriusXM radio and MSNBC, but fans are screaming all the same. Imagine a comic convention where, instead of a room full of people screaming, “I loved you on Firefly,” they’re screaming, “Michael Steele, you’re my favorite…