MSNBC’s Joy Reid is not going to be able to blame time-traveling cyber bandits for this one.
On Wednesday, as Reid and her cable news colleagues theorized about the 2020 presidential race, she asserted Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will not do “the right thing” should the election come before the court.
In assailing the judge’s character and his ability to rule fairly and impartially, Reid referred to him as “Uncle Clarence,” a loud and clear play on the racial slur “Uncle Tom.”
Not a single person on the MSNBC panel objected. Not Rachel Maddow, not Brian Williams, not Nicolle Wallace.
“What scares people is that if … somehow [the Trump campaign stumbles] into the Supreme Court,” Reid said, “do any of you guys trust Uncle Clarence and Amy Coney Barrett and those guys to actually follow the letter of the law?”
“No!” she added. “It is a completely politicized Supreme Court that you can’t just trust they’ll do the right thing.”
Reid then added in literally the exact same breath, “Now, so far, the courts have actually been pretty good. So, we’ll see.”
Wallace, Maddow, and Williams nodded along silently. The panel then moved on to the next subject without anyone so much as batting an eyelash over Reid accusing the only black person on the Supreme Court of being an “Uncle Tom.”
Very normal and healthy stuff going on at MSNBC these days.
