Conservative pundit Ann Coulter issued a brutal takedown of fired MSNBC host Joy Reid by using the ousted anchor’s own reaction against her.
Coulter shared a video from Real Time with Bill Maher’s Overtime circa June 2015, in which both she and the 56-year-old former host of The ReidOut appeared on a panel.
Maher asked the panelists in the clip which Republican candidate he thought had the best chance of winning the general election, to which Coulter replied: ‘Of the declared ones, right now, Donald Trump.’
The prediction shocked audience members, and when the camera panned to Reid, she could be seen blinking twice with her mouth agape at the notion.
‘Now that Joy Reid is looking for a new job, I should hire her to follow me around every moment, night and day, to react with open-mouthed, saucer-eyed astonishment at every prediction I make, which of course will then come true,’ Coulter wrote on Monday.
Reid’s show was canceled amid tanking ratings – a decision leaked early Sunday and confirmed by her bosses just hours later.
Network executives said the cancelation was part of a larger effort to restructure its programming.
Coulter used the ousted anchor’s own reaction to her claim that Trump would win the general election against her
Reid’s 7 p.m. ET time slot will now be replaced by a panel show co-hosted by Symone Sanders Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele.
Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart and Ayman Mohyeldin have also reportedly been given the boot from their current timeslots, the New York Post reported.
Fellow NBCU asset NBC News further confirmed Monday that Lester Holt was also leaving his iconic Nightly News gig.
New MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler insisted to members of the ReidOut staff on Sunday that President Donald Trump’s second term was not a factor in the network’s decision to cancel the show.
She instead claimed the network’s changes were made based on ‘data analysis and programming strategy’ that she believes will ‘best position MNSBC for the year ahead.’
But Status News reported that Reid’s constant progressive, anti-Trump rants unsettled MSNBC bosses who are seeking to foster a less biased-sounding liberal news network during the second Trump administration.
Her commitment to promoting ultra progressive causes ‘offered an easy target to attack MSNBC’s editorial stances’ as the network tries to overhaul its programming and recover from bad ratings, Status reported.
Comcast executive Mark Lazarus is said to want to change the perception that ‘Republicans cannot get a fair shake from the network’ by moving to a more ‘palatable progressivism.’
When the camera panned to Reid, she could be seen blinking twice with her mouth agape at the notion.
