'Brutal' takedown of Joy Reid in The Daily Beast hints at which MSNBC star is protecting her (NOT SHOCKING)

Greg P. | 4:37 PM on June 01, 2018

And the hits just keep on coming for Joy Reid, this time from The Daily Beast who reports that insiders at MSNBC have lost confidence in the problematic host, save one. Care to guess?

A brutal piece on how Joy Reid has lost the confidence of nearly everyone inside MSNBC after the most recent revelation of her anti-semitic/conspiratorial past, save seemingly one person who perhaps is keeping her afloat (see the final paragraph): https://t.co/3CdgkFblgD

— Esoteric Jeff (@EsotericCD) June 1, 2018

I mean, it really is hilarious how much slack Reid is being given here:

Virulently anti-gay? Check!
Anti-semitic? Check!
Anti-immigrant? Check!
Pro-nutso conspiracy theories? Check!

And yet she continues to hold down a television show on the 'progressive' cable news channel.

— Esoteric Jeff (@EsotericCD) June 1, 2018

If you guessed Rachel Maddow, you win a cookie:

One former high-level NBC producer, familiar with the cable network’s internal politics, pointed The Daily Beast to an April tweet from MSNBC’s top star Rachel Maddow as a compass for where this controversy was headed all along.

“Brains, guts, heart and soul—beloved Joy Reid has always been a treasured and brilliant colleague, but I’ve never been prouder to work with her than I am now,” the powerful primetime star wrote.

“This was the word of God that Joy Reid was safe.”

Here’s the tweet the ex-MSNBC suit pointed the The Daily Beast to:

Brains, guts, heart and soul — beloved Joy Reid has always been a treasured and brilliant colleague, but I've never been prouder to work with her than I am now. https://t.co/J95uL3CjMv

— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) April 28, 2018