Joy Reid SLAMMED For Nasty GOP Comment

Written By BlabberBuzz | Saturday, 18 September 2021 05:15 AM
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MSNBC host Joy Reid shifted the focus of harsh backlashes Wednesday over a bizarre rant that Republicans loved the coronavirus, wanted it pumping through their veins, and they were a "creepy little COVID-loving death cult."

"OK, we get it! COVID is precious and you love it. You love COVID so much you want it to spread into schools, at the office, in the Walmart, on the cruise ships and in the club," Reid said. "That great spongy ball with the red spikes, you want it pumping through your veins with an Ivermectin chaser. Why do you love to do dadgum so much? We have absolutely no bloody idea."

"But here's the thing you weirdos … everyone else hates COVID!" she continued, before listing examples of hospitals being flooded with coronavirus patients and people who died from the virus.

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"So yeah, the rest of us hate that this is happening. Even the Pope. The Pope hates COVID too, and he loves everybody. He also says get vaccinated," Reid said. "Yet, you Republicans seem to be A-OK with COVID running wild. And then you came to California. Trying to boot a Democratic governor from a blue state and hand it over to the COVID candidate."

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Reid presented a video clip of former Republican California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder discussing the coronavirus in an interview with CNN; Elder told the network he rejects vaccines and masks for "young people."

"If misinformation could kill. It all helps to explain why Governor Gavin Newsom beat the recall effort and by a lot," Reid said. "Republicans, your thirst for COVID is why you lost. Nobody likes your policies that threaten our safety and our kids."

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"You may want COVID. You may want to ingest horse dewormer and attend far too many funerals, but we don’t," she added. "[California] is perhaps the first real tangible proof that your creepy little COVID-loving death cult ways are not going to work for you at the ballot box next year. In fact it’s political suicide, and also apparently talk radio suicide because your brilliant little COVID plan is killing your right-wing hosts."

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Reid was slammed on social media following the rant, with critics saying she was making "significantly more harm than good," and that she was a "terrible person." One even suggested that she had a "mental problem" and needed to be committed to a hospital.

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One journalist called Reid a "poisonous human being" who "doesn't care about the lives of conservatives and Republicans."

Nicole Saphier, a bestselling author and physician, posted that voices such as Reid only hurt efforts to beat the virus.

"Partisan generalizations like these only contribute to the politicization of the pandemic, ultimately doing significantly more harm than good," she wrote.

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