MEDIA LOSER:
MSNBC's Joy Reid Joy Reid conducted a rather unimpressive interview withRep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) on Tuesday night.
As Mediaite's Isaac Schorr noted in a new op-ed, "The interview covered several topics seemingly selected for the sole purpose of Reid catching Donalds not knowing what he was talking about."
During a discussion on entitlements, Reid refused to accept Donalds' claim that “Social Security is going to be insolvent in 2035," yet provided no evidence to back her counter.
When the congressman attempted to reply, Reid insisted, “No, no, they’re not, they’re not, that’s not true, that’s not true, that’s not true."
Donalds eventually completed his thought, yet Reid still cut him off to declare, “we’re not going to have a whole long thing on Social Security.”
Instead of discussing policy with a congressman, Reid opted to suggest that Donalds' Republican colleagues nominated him for speaker as a mere “diversity statement.”
Before painting Donalds' candidacy as an exercise in performative affirmative action, Reid repeatedly cut him off as he tried to defend his qualifications.
It wasn't all bad for Reid this week, however — her show notched the best ratings on MSNBC Tuesday. | 