MSNBC's elevation of Joy Reid is going as badly as you’d expect

Joy Reid may end up being a bigger pain in MSNBC’s neck than network executives had originally anticipated.

First, she proved this week that her new prime-time show will be every bit as deranged as her now-defunct homophobic blog, on which she railed regularly against conservatives and Israel. If the network’s brass had assumed Reid would moderate her fanaticism even a little bit to suit the style and content of the time slot previously held by Chris Matthews, she showed this week that they were sorely mistaken.