MSNBC Kicks Joy Reid OUT!

Conservatives say 'good riddance' to Joy Reid's MSNBC show as liberals slam network shake-up! LMAO! Her ratings had a lot to do with it as she was just not pulling in ratings and who would want to watch a liar on tv who is not just lying but is clearly a racist, and is unhinged. The thing she did was not journalism. This was a disgraceful idiot on TV for way too long.

Reid’s 7 p.m. ET program will be replaced by a show featuring Symone Sanders-Townsend, a former spokesperson to Vice President Kamala Harris, Alicia Menendez and RNC Chair turned MSNBC host Michael Steele, according to a source familiar with the plans. Former FCC chairman Ajit Pai quipped, "An unfortunate development for Joy Reid's viewer, considering the host's insightful analysis on political topics." Pai included a clip of Reid praising former Vice President Kamala Harris' "flawlessly run campaign," despite losing to Trump.

Actor Michael Rapaport also reacted to the news, with the hashtag, #joyless.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Good, and not cause I wanna see anyone lose a job good because you had an opportunity & pissed it away with short sighted racially weaponized 1/4 truth garbage
And they did it on a SUNDAY morning,
double HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA#joyless #joyreid pic.twitter.com/WGQJThOWUz

— MichaelRapaport (@MichaelRapaport) February 23, 2025

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., shared the news on X, saying, "The ad execs and the board finally figured out that racism, lies, and Trump derangement syndrome will put them out of business."

Good morning!!

MSNBC just canceled Joy Reid’s show.

The ad execs and the board finally figured out that racism, lies, and Trump derangement syndrome will put them out of business.

pic.twitter.com/OUYXRuXBYp

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) February 23, 2025

Joy Reid was one of the most toxic people in the media; good riddance https://t.co/giFFcuTASw

— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) February 23, 2025

Some liberal commentators slammed the network on the social media platform, Bluesky. Keith Olbermann, a former MSNBC host, said the network didn't have a "Joy Reid problem," but rather a "Joe Scarborough problem," pointing to the network's "Morning Joe" co-host. "Until he is fired, MSNBC will not recover. Shuffling tepid shows in and out does nothing," he continued. Olbermann also made the argument that a panel show, which is what will be replacing Reid's program, wouldn't be successful. "Also: panel shows with multiple meh hosts don't work in primetime in cable news. 

They didn't work in 2003, which is about the last time MSNBC tried one - even those executives understood the need for strong solo anchors (though they seldom could identify them)," he wrote. "She's a blunt Black woman, so of course her show is canceled. Not lost on any of us," Wajahat Ali, a liberal commentator and writer, reacted. 

Dean Obeidallah, a radio show host who has written for CNN and MSNBC, also pointed to the "Morning Joe" hosts  specifically their meeting with Trump, which prompted a lot of backlash at the network  in a post on Bluesky. Danielle Moodie, the host of the Daily Beast's "The New Abnormal" podcast, slammed MSNBC for canceling Reid's show, saying "Everytime MSNBC has a "shakeup" the black woman solo led show is ALWAYS the first to go." Others, including NewsNation's Kurt Bardella, praised Reid's career at MSNBC. "The 1st person at MSNBC to give me a regular place on a show was Joy Reid. I would not have a career in cable news without her. She has elevated so many diverse voices and paved a way for so many. Whatever she does next will be equally impact-full," said Bardella.

Chris Matthews retires on-air!

FIRED, CANCELLED or forced out? You be the judge MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews retires on-air, leaves MID-BROADCAST and is replaced to a stunned Steve Kornacki who took over the broadcast, telling the audience, “That was a lot to take in just now, I’m sure, and I’m sure you’re still absorbing that, and I am too.”

Chris announced his retirement at the opening of Hardball Monday night by stating the following “Let me start with my headline: I’m retiring,” said the anchor, who has hosted the show since 1997 at first CNBC, then MSNBC. “Obviously, this isn’t for lack of interest in politics,” Matthews said, explaining how much he loved hosting the show.

As for his reason for leaving, Matthews told his audience that he came to the decision after a conversation with MSNBC and that he believed that a younger generation was “ready to take the reins.” He then praised young people for improving conditions in the workplace, then transitioned into an apology for sexual harassment. “Compliments on a woman’s appearance that some men, including me, might have once incorrectly thought were OK, were never OK,” Matthews said. “Not then, and certainly not today, and for making such comments in the past, I’m sorry.”

It’s been reported that the network had little advance warning that Matthews was leaving, saying, “We do have to fill the rest of this hour—we’re going to take a quick break and come back with today’s news,” before cutting to commercial again. This sort of thing is hard for me to believe as I think he might have been consumed by the same left politics which he pushed on the show. So now that he’s been thrown a curveball, and won’t be on hardball anymore what’s left for Chris? Well he’s going to be penning another book.

I suspect this isn’t the last of this, and that he will either end up doing his own online podcast at some point, and not stay “Retired” I think that he’s been pushed out, and left with an agreement not to trash the network, and take a payout so the network doesn’t leave him embarrassed. So he went on air, and went out in the bestway possible which made the network look as good as it could. Here is the video below of his farewell speech.