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New York Post
a day ago
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- New York Post
Piers Morgan accuses Joy Reid of playing ‘race card' in heated exchange over MSNBC firing
Joy Reid and Piers Morgan had a heated exchange on 'Piers Morgan Uncensored' Thursday when the host disputed her claim that she was fired from MSNBC for being a Black woman. 'Joy, I mean, let's be honest. I don't think you were fired after all those years because of your skin color or because you're a Black woman. I think you were fired because your show just got increasingly unpopular,' Morgan said. Advertisement Reid's MSNBC show 'The ReidOut' was canceled in February as part of a larger shakeup at the network. Her show had struggled to attract ratings, averaging only 973,000 total viewers in February 2025 compared to 1.3 million during the same month in 2024, marking a 28% decline. Reid has maintained that her show suffered smaller declines than other MSNBC shows, and she didn't understand the reason for the cancellation. When Morgan asked why she was playing 'the race card' instead of acknowledging that rating struggles were behind her cancellation, an incensed Reid shot back at Morgan that he was 'fixated on trying to racialize conversations.' 'I love the fact that your 'play the race card' is your version of the race card. You literally are so fixated on trying to racialize conversations with me, Piers, I actually find it quite charming,' Reid said before she was cut off. Advertisement 4 Joy Reid and Piers Morgan had a heated exchange on 'Piers Morgan Uncensored' when the host disputed her claim that she was fired from MSNBC for being a Black woman. YouTube / Piers Morgan Uncensored 'You racialize more conversations in your tenure at MSNBC than any host in history,' a peeved Morgan interrupted while Reid continued to speak. Reid's show was known for her controversial and often racially charged views, especially directing scorn towards Black Republicans and conservatives. She called Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas 'Uncle Clarence' due to his conservative views. Advertisement 4 'Joy, I mean, let's be honest. I don't think you were fired after all those years because of your skin color or because you're a Black woman. I think you were fired because your show just got increasingly unpopular,' Morgan said. YouTube / Piers Morgan Uncensored 4 'You racialize more conversations in your tenure at MSNBC than any host in history,' Morgan interrupted while Reid continued to speak. YouTube / Piers Morgan Uncensored Reid claimed in 2021 that Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., was only present at a GOP press conference to provide a 'patina of diversity.' The former MSNBC host also called Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fl., the 'Black guy the Republicans love to roll out' in 2021. Reid previously told podcaster Marc Lamont Hill that being a 'Black woman' made White viewers 'angrier' when they objected to some of the controversial views she shared on her program. Advertisement 'You take an entire conversation I had with Marc Lamont Hill and pick the bits that you can racialize because this is your schtick,' Reid told Morgan. 4 Reid's MSNBC show 'The ReidOut' was canceled in February as part of a larger shakeup at the network. Getty Images for ESSENCE 'You racialize everything Joy, come on… It's not my schtick, it was your schtick, but people got bored with it,' Morgan shot back. The former 'ReidOut' host went on to say that Morgan, a 'White European,' had a double standard for when 'people of color' discussed race. Morgan and Reid's interview was contentious throughout. At another point, Morgan confronted Reid at length over her blog controversy, where homophobic posts from a Florida-based blog she had resurfaced in 2018.
Fox News
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Piers Morgan accuses Joy Reid of playing 'race card' in heated exchange
Joy Reid and Piers Morgan had a heated exchange on "Piers Morgan Uncensored" Thursday when the host disputed her claim that she was fired from MSNBC for being a Black woman. "Joy, I mean, let's be honest. I don't think you were fired after all those years because of your skin color, or because you're a Black woman. I think you were fired because your show just got increasingly unpopular," Morgan said. Reid's MSNBC show "The ReidOut" was canceled in February as part of a larger shakeup at the network. Her show had struggled to attract ratings, averaging only 973,000 total viewers in February 2025 compared to 1.3 million during the same month in 2024, marking a 28% decline. Reid has maintained her show suffered smaller declines than other MSNBC shows and she didn't understand the reason for the cancellation. When Morgan asked why she was playing "the race card" instead of acknowledging that rating struggles were behind her cancellation, an incensed Reid shot back at Morgan that he was "fixated on trying to racialize conversations." "I love the fact that your 'play the race card' is your version of the race card. You literally are so fixated on trying to racialize conversations with me, Piers, I actually find it quite charming –" Reid said before she was cut off. "You racialize more conversations in your tenure at MSNBC than any host in history," a peeved Morgan interrupted while Reid continued to speak. Reid's show was known for her controversial and often racially charged views, especially directing scorn towards Black Republicans and conservatives. She called Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas "Uncle Clarence" due to his conservative views. Reid claimed in 2021 that Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., was only present at a GOP press conference to provide a "patina of diversity." The former MSNBC host also called Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fl., the "Black guy the Republicans love to roll out" in 2021. Reid previously told podcaster Marc Lamont Hill that being a "Black woman" made White viewers "angrier" when they objected to some of the controversial views she shared on her program. "You take an entire conversation I had with Marc Lamont Hill and pick the bits that you can racialize because this is your schtick," Reid told Morgan. "You racialize everything Joy, come on… It's not my schtick, it was your schtick, but people got bored with it," Morgan shot back. The former "ReidOut" host went on to say that Morgan, a "White European," had a double standard for when "people of color" discussed race. Morgan and Reid's interview was contentious throughout. At another point, Morgan confronted Reid at length over her blog controversy, where homophobic posts from a Florida-based blog she had resurfaced in 2018.
Miami Herald
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
‘There was no warning': Joy Reid is speaking out about how she was fired from MSNBC
Surprised that Joy Reid was pulled off the air back in February? So was she. The former MSNBC anchor is speaking out about how she found out that her show 'The ReidOut' was, poof, gone. During a new interview on 'The Breakfast Club' with Charlemagne tha God, Jess Hilarious and guest host Lauren Larosa, Reid reveals that her bosses reassured that her numbers were adequate just two weeks before the ax came down. 'They were like, 'You guys lost less than your competitors, and you're actually doing fine,'' the ex host said, adding, 'The ratings have not gotten better since I left. So it wasn't numbers.' Reid, a former Miami Herald columnist, didn't initially find out that she no longer had the gig from network honchos, but from a news article. The Feb. 22 Puck News 'scoop' rumored her primetime show was 'vulnerable.' Early the next morning, management texted her that they needed to talk to her at noon. Hours later, she was unemployed. 'I was fired immediately, there was no warning,' said the Emmy nominee. 'They said, 'Oh, like, we just want to make some changes.'' Among the other talent let go in the MSNBC bloodbath: Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart and Ayman Mohyeldin. Reid said she believes discussing 'uncomfortable' topics like Gaza and Donald Trump (because he is 'suing everybody') may have contributed to the decision to let her go. 'Joy Reid is leaving the network and we thank her for her countless contributions over the years,' MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler wrote to staff upon the cancellation of 'The ReidOut,' adding that the nightly program had recently received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding News Series. Soon after the pundit's firing went viral, the mother of three called in to 'Win With Black Women' podcast. 'I've been through every emotion from, you know, anger, rage, disappointment ... guilt, that I let my team lose their jobs,' Reid said, tearing up. 'But in the end, where I really land, and where I've landed on today is just gratitude. Not just because people would take the time to get on a call like this or to take care of me. But also that my show had value.'
Daily Mail
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Joy Reid makes humiliating admission about her firing from MSNBC
Joy Reid has revealed that the only heads up she got that she was being fired from MSNBC was a news article published days before she was axed. Reid made the startling admission during a Tuesday appearance on The Breakfast Club radio show, where she also talked about how disillusioned she is with the Democratic party. Reid claimed that her shock firing had nothing to do with ratings and speculated her outspoken views on Donald Trump and the situation in Gaza may have played a role. She explained that executives reassured her two weeks before her firing that her numbers were acceptable. 'They were like, "You guys lost less than your competitors, and you're actually doing fine,"' Reid said. 'So ratings were fine. We were doing fine. And you know, the ratings have not gotten better since I left.' Instead, Reid speculated that a February 22 story in Puck News was what sealed the fate of The Reid Out, the show she had been hosting since July 2020. 'We had seen that there was this Puck story that Friday,' she said. 'My executive producer called me and said, "Look, all of our producers are freaking out over this Puck story, so you should see it."' The story, written by Dylan Byers, claimed that Reid's show was, 'vulnerable in light of recent ratings struggles'. 'Then I get a text message early the next morning [on Saturday] saying, "Can you talk at noon?" And I was fired immediately. There was no warning. So, I asked, "Well, what's the issue?"' Reid said. She added that she was told management wanted to, 'make some changes', claiming that was all the specificity she was given at the time. A representative for Puck declined to comment on the outlet's reporting on Reid's firing. Reid went on to say that 'two topics' she frequently talked about on her show made MSNBC higher-ups uncomfortable. One of them was President Donald Trump, she said, largely because he has sued multiple media outlets for negative coverage of him. 'He's literally threatening people to the point where '60 Minutes' is shook, where ABC News is shook. He's verbally threatened Comcast by name, named [Comcast CEO] Brian Roberts by name, and all of these are businesses that if want to do business they need the FCC's approval,' Reid said. MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler has previously said that Reid's coverage of Trump was not a factor in her being fired. The other topic she thought made her toxic to management was her discussing Gaza, a small strip of land that Israel has been bombing since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. 'You just can't get away from the fact that talking about Gaza in a way that humanizes Palestinians is not the usual way that cable news operates, or that any news in this country operates for whatever reason, that topic makes people uncomfortable,' Reid said. Reid first addressed what happened a day after her firing on February 24, with a tearful appearance on the Win With Black Women podcast. 'I've been through every emotion... anger, rage, disappointment, hurt... guilt. You know, [ a feeling] that I let my team lose their jobs,' she said at the time. 'But in the end, where I really land... is just gratitude. Just pure gratitude and gratitude. Not just because people would take the time to get on a call like this or to take care of me. But also that my show had value.' Reid broke down as she explained that she's not sorry for having gone, 'hard on so many' progressive issues like Black Lives Matter or immigrant rights on her primetime slot. 'Whether it's talking about any of these issues and, yes, whether it's talking about Gaza and the fact that we as the American people have a right to object, to have a right to object to little babies being bombed,' Reid went on. 'And and where I come down on that is I'm not sorry. I am not sorry that I stood up for those those things because those things are of God.' Reid was fired in a brutal round of cuts at the network which also included anchors Jonathan Capehart, Katie Phang, and Ayman Mohyeldin. She has since launched her own podcast, The Joy Reid Show which debuted on June 9 and places her in direct competition with her former employer. Daily Mail approached MSNBC for comment.
Yahoo
04-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Joy Reid: How MSNBC Tried to Silence Me Before Firing
MSNBC tried to stop Joy Reid from expressing herself on social media before ultimately firing her from its primetime lineup. Her MSNBC bosses were 'horrified' by the way she used social media platforms like Twitter, she told Katie Couric on her new podcast Monday. 'And anytime I would tweet anything, I would get calls—I would get, 'Please get off Twitter, we hate it.'' 'They just don't like that it pulls their talent and their reporters out of their control because now you're not running what you're tweeting through Standards and Practices,' Reid continued. 'It's giving your personality directly to the audience, which they don't like because it's no longer managed and curated by them.' Reid is gearing up to launch her YouTube show and podcast 'The Joy Reid Show' on June 9, but she got candid about her time at MSNBC a week in advance during a preview conversation with Couric, which she also uploaded to YouTube after hosting the livestream on her website. Her comments come after MSNBC canceled Reid's primetime show The ReidOut without explanation in February, as part of a network shakeup following Donald Trump's election win that resulted in the exodus of several of the network's non-white anchors. Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann characterized the moves as 'an MSNBC purge so brutally racist it makes you think it was done by [Elon] Musk.' Reid opened up about The ReidOut's end when Couric asked her what 'really happened' on Monday. 'I've been asked this so many times,' she told Couric. 'And people think that I'm just saying it to B.S., but I'm being honest with you—I don't know.' Just before she found out the news, Reid said, 'We were emailing back and forth with the PR department, praising our win for the NAACP Image Award.' 'It wasn't ratings' that got the show canceled, Reid went on, 'because we had just had a ratings meeting a couple of weeks before that talking about the fact that our show… other than Rachel Maddow, we were down the least' after Trump's election win. The Daily Beast reported in March that Reid's ratings were actually increasing when she was let go. 'We were just told that we were doing… that we were holding on pretty well,' she continued. 'And then, you know, it's not like the ratings have gotten better since I've been gone.' Reid also said the way she was told that her show was canceled felt 'scripted' and 'just very perfunctory.' 'I wasn't told 'The ratings were terrible,' 'It's something you did,' 'You tweeted a terrible thing,'' she said, adding that she was already being 'extra careful' online at the time, since 'there was a real anxiety about social media.' Reid she doesn't necessarily think her show was canceled because of her outspoken criticism of Trump, as many of her fans have speculated—but she said there's one reason she's not completely ruling it out. 'I'm a Black woman doing the thing. You know what I mean? And so I'm not different' from MSNBC hosts and Trump critics Rachel Maddow or Nicole Wallace, but 'I think that there's a difference for Trump in hearing the kinds of criticisms, specifically, out of a Black woman. It bothers him in a way it doesn't bother him like anything else.' 'There's a fear of him,' she also said, 'We're seeing it everywhere.'
