POLL: What Was the Worst Media Take of the Week? 

July 3rd, 2025 3:00 PM

POLL: What was the worst media take of the week? (Vote below)

 

 

NOMINEES: 

 

1. Elie Mystal: America Needs to Be Sanctioned, “We Are the Bad Guys” 

“Our country needs to be sanctioned, we are the bad guys on the world stage. We are a menace to not only free people everywhere, but we are a menace to peaceful people everywhere….We have to be stopped through the same kind of means that we have that our country and others have used to rebuke a North Korea or a China or name a rogue state. We are the rogue state.”
The Nation justice correspondent Elie Mystal on The Joy Reid Show podcast, July 2.

 

2. Joy Reid: Ron DeSantis Is Rounding Up “Brown People” To Put In His “Concentration Camp”

“We tried to forget about him, but Ron DeSantis is still governor of Florida. He took the Comfy Couch hosts on a tour of the concentration camp that he’s building in Florida in order to round up people, brown people, and throw them in a camp because he doesn’t want them in Florida.”
— Former MSNBC host Joy Reid on The Joy Reid Show podcast, June 28.  

 

3. Sunny Hostin: “Like Many Dictators” Trump Wants “State-Sponsored Television”

“I think he [Donald Trump] is much more comfortable — like many dictators and many authoritarians — with state-sponsored television….I’ve actually been to Russia, you watch television, you watch television in mainland China, you can’t trust what you’re hearing. And I think he is much more comfortable in that kind of space.”
— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, June 26.

 

 

 

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