Race baiting MSNBC anchor Joy Reid brought her typical slime to MTP Daily on Tuesday, insisting that Donald Trump just highlighted the existing “vulgarity” of “right wing talk radio.” Talking to Chuck Todd about Arizona Senator Jeff Flake’s new anti-Trump book, Reid sneered, “If you've been listening to right wing talk radio over the last 20 something years, the same anger and rage and anger at the changes in the country, the same ethic, the same sort of, you know... vulgarity existed.”
Because everything is racial, Reid snapped, “Wasn't Arizona one of the last states to recognize the King holiday? So, it's a certain kind of state.” Dismissing the conservative base as basically a bunch of haters, she scolded:
Donald Trump recognized better than they did, better than Jeff Flake did, better than John McCain did, that he could simply identify with the text of what people were saying on talk radio or listening to when they heard Rush Limbaugh, the anger and rage they felt all the time, the sense of political correctness, meaning, "I can't say these things because I can't keep my job and be in polite society." Trump said, "Yes, you can or I can say them for you."
Hammering the right as racists, she indicted, “The elites of the Republican Party thinks that the base agrees with them on eviscerating Medicaid, for instance. Donald Trump understands that the base of the party is fine with big government. They don't like that certain people are getting it."
This is the same Reid who, after the shooting of Representative Steve Scalice, chose to deride the Republican’s history on “race.”
A partial transcript is below:
MTP Daily
8/1/17
5:14pm ETCHUCK TODD: Look, there’s a bunch of other quotes here and in some ways he blames the base. Let me pull this one, Joy. “Giving in to the politics of anger, the belief that riling up the base can make up for failed attempts to broaden the electorate. These are ths spasms of a dying party. Anger and resentment and blaming groups of people for our people might work in the short term, but it's a dangerous impulse in a pluralistic society.” The state of Arizona gave us Joe Arpaio. The Republican Party in Arizona there has always been schizophrenic in some ways. It's given us people like Jeff Flake and John McCain on one hand. And then at the other hand, it’s given us, and this goes way back, a guy like Evan Mecham back in the day, who was sort of like— somebody said, People who have just been in the sun too long and their brain sort of, like, had too much sun on them. And they ended up electing that man. The point is — there’s always been — he really is putting himself and this issue front and center for this primary.
JOY REID: Wasn’t Arizona one of the last states to recognize the King holiday? So, it’s a certain kind of state. Look, the reality is, you know, you have to what was Donald Trump’s crime in the minds of Republican elites? I went and I looked up Jeff Flake’s voting record. He has voted 95.5 percent with Donald Trump. Trump’s margin in Arizona was 3.5 percent. So, 538.com’s predicted predictive score would be that he would have voted with Trump about 61 percent of the time. He superseded that by 30 points. So this is not a difference in content or in what they want to do. It is really to me about the gap between the text and subtext. If Donald Trump committed a crime among Republican elites, he made the long-term subtext of Republicanism into text.
Meaning, if you've been listening to right wing talk radio over the last 20 something years, the same anger and rage and anger at the changes in the country, the same ethic, the same sort of, you know, sometime vulgarity existed. It's just that elites in the Republican Party didn't accept that as the way to market the party to the world. Donald Trump recognized better than they did, better than Jeff Flake did, better than John McCain did, that he could simply identify with the text of what people were saying on talk radio or listening to when they heard Rush Limbaugh, the anger and rage they felt all the time, the sense of political correctness, meaning, “I can’t say these things because I can’t keep my job and be in polite society.” Trump said, “Yes, you can or I can say them for you.” So, all Trump did was take a lot of the subtext and anger that was already there. He didn’t invent this. Trump is just making it open and obvious and Republican elites can’t stand it.
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REID: The elites of the Republican party thinks that the base agrees with them on eviscerating Medicaid, for instance. Donald Trump understands that the base of the party is fine with big government. They don’t like that certain people are getting it.
