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MSNBC caught heat after Joy Reid’s “poop” jokes and her lashing out at Rep. Elise Stefanik, according to Fox News.
“The question is was she full of crap then when she was hanging out in Bush world and Romney world? Or is she full of crap now? I don’t know,” Steele stated.
“So either way, crap is crap. And it is the best reflection of where the GOP is right now, as they are about to knock out a principled woman for crap.”
“And I think we need to be honest about what it is. Donald Trump brought the gold toilet into the RNC, into the party, and everyone thinks it’s a pool. And they’re just diving in. They’re just diving in.”
“But I mean, Eugene, they’re diving in, and the poop toilet is full! It’s not like they’re diving in and it’s empty. It’s full!” Reid said.
“And they ain’t a plunger around!” Steele cut her off
To the amusement of Joy Reid, MSNBC's supposedly civil and principled Republican Michael Steele says @EliseStefanik is made of poop and decided that Donald Trump's "golden toilet" that he "brought into the RNC" is actually "a swimming pool." pic.twitter.com/xx5iL5LtuE
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 6, 2021
This does … not reflect well on MSNBC https://t.co/LL7vmr0Jrh
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) May 6, 2021
MSNBC’s Joy Reid, Michael Steele: @EliseStefanik is human feces swimming in the toilet https://t.co/kDE8oRDakT
If @TuckerCarlson said something like that, CNN's hall monitors would be sputtering about 'dangerous' language etc. But since its Joy they're fine with it— johnny dollar (@johnnydollar01) May 7, 2021
From Fox News:
Reid, the left-wing host well known for criticizing Republicans, was seemingly amused when former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, now a political analyst for MSNBC, resorted to using defecation references to attack Stefanik, the Republican Party, and former President Donald Trump.
The segment began with Reid going on a profanity-laced rant against Stefanik, calling her statements on election fraud in the 2020 election “bulls**t,” questioning her past political support for anti-Trump Republicans, and claiming she was defrauding “Trumpy” voters by pretending to not be one of the most liberal Republicans.
Reid burst out laughing as Steele finished, and continued with the “poop” theme as she turned to Steele’s fellow MSNBC analyst Eugene Robinson for his take.
The network was quickly slammed on social media, with Newsbusters managing editor Curtis Houck calling Steele out for failing to live up to his supposed reputation of being “civil and principled.”
Others said that the segment didn’t reflect well on MSNBC, and some claimed that if hosts on other networks, such as Fox News, said the same thing, then the liberal media would be blasting them for using “dangerous” language.
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