'Not AT ALL what he said': Joy Reid's 'worst thing that happened this week' is melting BS detectors

Doug P. | 3:19 PM on March 20, 2021

Former Voxxer Matt Yglesias was among those calling out Vox’s Aaron Rupar for pushing a bogus narrative about what a law enforcement officer in Atlanta said about the spa shooter who killed eight people during his rampage. But that spin didn’t stop with Rupar. MSNBC’s Joy Reid also picked up on it, facts be damned:

MSNBC’s @JoyAnnReid: "The worst thing that happened this week was a sheriff, a law enforcement officer of the U.S. saying that a spree killer had a bad day because he had a sex addiction, and seeming to empathize with him when he slaughtered eight women, most of them Asian" pic.twitter.com/vg5A78uKlk

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 20, 2021

First of all…

Not sure what’s worse:

– that @JoyAnnReid thinks “the worst that happened” is what a cop said rather than what the criminal did.

– that a “journalist” fell for the lie about the context.

– or that she knowingly lied to her audience about it.https://t.co/My5rImcPBN

— Patrick (@ArgentineTea) March 20, 2021

Really? I thought the worst thing that happened this week was the eight women being killed.

But that's just me. https://t.co/luoZI7TWeU

— Nick Rizzuto (@Nick_Rizzuto) March 20, 2021

So the killing wasn’t the worst thing?

— Rich Weinstein (@phillyrich1) March 20, 2021

Yeah, Reid might want to re-think what she said just based on that. Also based on what’s known, she probably shouldn’t have provided that spin at all:

It’s amazing that @JoyAnnReid’s producers didn’t do their own homework and just relied on a discredited Twitter account. How can this be allowed to happen @MSNBC? Doesn’t the truth matter? https://t.co/GLmyyVdaCa

— Real_Dave_La_Torre ? (@David_LaTorre) March 20, 2021