 Look lover a hater. You've got a hand in the joy read She is a very talented propagandist and yes She is a hack But she's a clever hack because she managed to pull off something that I didn't think was possible She took the Joe Biden tower read story and somehow twisted this Into an anti Bernie Sanders story about the notorious Bernie bros who have a plot to overthrow Joe Biden and install Bernie Sanders as the Democratic Party's nominee. Yes, she put this out there and I think she is relatively convincing if you're already kind of predispositioned to Believe the bullshit that MSNBC spouts on a regular basis. So we're gonna get to that but also I want to talk about how she managed to assassinate the character of tarried or at least attempt to but I think this will land with her audience by Praying on the conspiratorial instincts of the average MSNBC Viewer and she's trying to smear tarried by using Russian hysteria and McCarthyism and what she does here should definitely be written about By scholars of media and media bias for decades to come this clip should be featured in the sequel to Manufacturing consent if there ever is one take a look most weirdly back in 2018 read wrote a series of blog posts Extravagantly praising Russian president Vladimir Putin who intelligence agencies say wage cyberwarfare against the United States in order to get Donald Trump elected president and One such blog post which she published on medium and has since been deleted Entitled why a liberal Democrat supports Vladimir Putin. She wrote quote President Putin has an alluring combination of strength with gentleness His sensuous image projects his love for life the embodiment of grace while facing adversity Ms. Reed now says that her praise of Putin was misguided So that is what I like to call a good old-fashioned smear Because the subtext of that clip was that you know since she loves Vladimir Putin so much and since Vladimir Putin Loves Donald Trump. Well, if you connect the dots Maybe I'm not gonna say but maybe Vladimir Putin put Tara Reed up to this Maybe he convinced her to fabricate these sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden and Help Donald Trump win She didn't say it, but that's what she was priming you to believe She didn't have to say it to get you to think about that But I have a counterpoint. Maybe it's the case that not everything is a conspiracy Maybe Tara Reed just has a bad opinion a wrong opinion about Russia Russian politics and Vladimir Putin But that she also Simultaneously was in fact sexually assaulted by Joe Biden. I mean two things can be true at the same time She could be wrong about Russia But be telling the truth about Joe Biden now Joy Reed would never point this out because that wouldn't serve her political agenda But nonetheless MSNBC viewers aren't going to question this because they trust Joy Reed They think that what she's doing is you know espousing information that they need to know She thinks that you need to know that these pro Vladimir Putin blog posts by Tara Reed Discredit everything that she's saying and to make matters worse We bring in the Bernie broke conspiracy theory about how this is all just the plot for us to basically Push Joe Biden out and get what we want it all along Bernie Sanders as the nominee And she's the only pundit who's brave enough to call this out Except that's not really what anyone is saying. Do I want Bernie Sanders to be the nominee? Yes Do I believe if we were successful at getting Joe Biden to step down that all of a sudden the DNC would just Bring out Bernie Sanders and be like alright kids. You did it. Congratulations. No, that's not what anyone's asking for basically what we're calling for is Just generalizing here Joe Biden step aside Let the rest of the nominating process play out let people vote. We don't have to go with him He hasn't clenched the nomination officially. He hasn't reached that magic number of 1991. So why can't we just? Let the remaining people who were in the race on suspend their campaigns come back and compete for the nomination aggressively I mean, I haven't seen anyone say let's install Bernie Sanders nonetheless That's what she wants you to think that we want to do So she tweeted out for Sanders diehards It at least seems to be about letting the media needle Biden into resigning and somehow replacing him on the ticket with Sanders Although in the unlikely event Biden did that why wouldn't he just seed his delegates to say a woman? well, I mean because logic and fairness dictates that The person who was in second place should be the frontrunner to be the nominee But nonetheless, she continues here if Sanders was the nominee or was on his way to gaining the nomination Would his supporters be pushing this case or helping miss read in the same way? Is she what they care most about or is it getting that nomination by any means necessary having not gotten it via votes? So what we're kind of seeing here is a little bit of projection since she is nothing more than a political hacks And she believes in nothing she assumes that we all don't believe in nothing also like her right Except I do believe in tar read I do believe that we should do everything in our power to make women feel comfortable To come out and share their stories, right now Certainly, I'll admit that I think that this would be less relevant for sure if Joe Biden wasn't seeking The highest office in the land But I mean you could flip this and ask the same question about her advocacy for Christine Blasey Ford Did you only care about her because Brett Kavanaugh was needed to needing to be stopped or would you care? You know if he wasn't going to be on the Supreme Court. I Mean you can ask the same questions about everything you and your colleagues were saying about Dr. Christine Blasey Ford You can care about the woman in this story But also acknowledge that it is especially relevant if they are seeking a position of power where they will be Dictating policy ultimately that is going to impact women every woman in the country. Don't you think that that is more relevant? I think she knows she's just you know being intentionally obtuse here But there's more she tweeted out and has any journalist who's been covering Biden for a long time or anyone from the 08 campaign Done any writing on why these complaints if they were written and to supervisors Didn't come up in the Obama vetting process or during the general or did they I genuinely don't know Maybe it's because Obama isn't infallible. In fact, he's a really bad person Objectively speaking if you think murder is bad killing innocent civilians in you know Pakistan Yemen and Somalia if you think that's bad Then Obama isn't a God Maybe we shouldn't just think any and everything that it has is good or you know Maybe they would have you know not selected Biden if they knew about this, but they didn't maybe they just messed up Or maybe tari didn't want to share her allegation The point is that what you're using here is a tactic straight from the Republican playbook Remember what they were saying about dr. Christine Blasey Ford? Well, why is this coming up all of a sudden now that he is nominated to be on the supreme court? Why didn't she bring this up sooner? It's the same question that we were asking that Republicans were asking back then and now Democrats are asking this I'll be it about tari. It's political hackery that is so so transparent that it's embarrassing You'd think they'd be embarrassed anyways, but uh, they're not they're not and she said more about this on her program and It's just, you know, honestly, you think that there would be some mechanism in Joy Reid's brain That would trigger some level of shame, right? That would make her think maybe this makes me look like a hack I probably shouldn't talk about this too much because it's embarrassing It's not a good look and this comes after she lied about time-traveling hackers writing homophobic blog posts for her But I mean nonetheless She talks about how this is definitely a plot from the Bernie rose to install Bernie and rig the nomination We also have have to talk about the timing of all of this Ms. Reid made her allegations public in late March when the primary was down to just Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders and days before Sanders announced he was suspending his campaign Some Biden supporters have questioned Ms. Reid's motives because of that timing Ms. Reid voted for Sanders in the California primary and that of course doesn't mean that she's not believable But some Sanders supporters have used the allegations to call for Biden to be replaced on the Democratic ticket because of these claims With the implication that Sanders should replace him Okay So this is why her conspiracy theory doesn't make sense if Tar Reid decided Hypothetically to fabricate these allegations. Why would she choose to time it after Joe Biden had already basically locked up the nomination Wouldn't you if you're trying to have the biggest impact Target, you know that time after Bernie Sanders won Nevada and Before Joe Biden won South Carolina because it seemed like he had momentum as we inched closer towards South Carolina He picked up Jim Clyburn's endorsement. So wouldn't she choose to then? Drop these allegations if I mean targeting Joe Biden and hurting Joe Biden was her only goal if she wanted to help Bernie Sanders. I Mean you'd think right but instead she chose To come out with these allegations When Bernie was already losing if anything you can argue Maybe she didn't want to hurt Joe Biden Which is why she came out with this after he already had the nomination basically locked up after he sweeped on Super Tuesdays 2 and 3 But Joy Reid is just trying to get the audience to think you know, maybe this is a made-up allegation Maybe she isn't doing this because she actually was assaulted by Joe Biden I couldn't believe that someone who sniffs women's hair on television would ever do this But I mean, maybe she just wanted to you know hurt Joe Biden and maybe this is a plot to Have Bernie Sanders installed and there's a little bit more on this that I want to talk about take a look A couple of the challenges that that I think people are having with the whole way this is playing out Is it on the one hand? There's concern for Tara Reid For her to have closure, you know her accusations to be looked into properly And then there's the sense that that the people who are pushing this the hardest don't primarily care about her There is this subtext of this being some kind of an opportunity to maybe Ultimately get for senator sanders a nomination that he didn't win the old-fashioned way, right? So you had claire sandberg Who is senator sanders 2020 national organizing director Tweet Now is the time to deal with the ramifications of Tara Reid's accusations. Sorry. This is not cut nine for my producers Not this fall There is simply no moral justification for Biden to continue as the presumptive nominee Out of respect for survivors and for the good of the country He should withdraw from the race that kind of thing is what's Unnerving I think a lot of people about how this is going So this is just more projection from joy Reid because she's a hack She thinks everyone is as equally hacky as she is But believe it or not, we do believe in the me too movement. We believe in these types of political causes, right? Not everyone is always acting for purposes of political gain. Believe it or not But she's a pundit She only thinks about these things in terms of what the payoff will be And whether or not she's going to take a stand will hinge on if there will be a political payoff Of some sort now she also shared Claire Sandberg's tweet to supposedly, you know Prove that this is all nothing more than a plot to bring back Bernie Sanders But in that tweet Claire Sandberg didn't even mention Bernie Sanders And she she's basically Making a straw man that we want to just Me too Biden out of the race so Bernie can win rather than have having him win the old-fashioned ways what she said Yes, because let's pretend that msnbc Cares about winning the old-fashioned way after when Bernie Sanders was leading when it looked like he was going to get a plurality Your colleagues were defending the prospect of super delegate stealing the nomination away from Bernie Sanders in order to give it to someone Like Elizabeth Warren or Joe Biden So don't pretend like you're principled and you care about winning votes because you were one of the loudest cheerleaders defending the dnc's rigging Of the 2016 primary you Insufferable hack, but i'm not even mad because this is what we expect from joy reed But look, let me just put it all out there So she can hear it from one of the highest ranking members. I think of the brotherhood of the bernard Would I like for bernie sanders to be the nominee? Yes, I think that that is Obvious, but what do I want to come of all of this? I want Joe Biden to step down and I want the rest of the states to vote right Maybe he doesn't even step down. Maybe voters just have this information and Everyone else unsuspends their campaigns and if he wins he wins I just want there to feel like there's some ramifications For this some accountability any accountability is really what i'm looking for but Should Joe biden be replaced by bernie sanders sure if he can win If you don't want Joe biden to be replaced by bernie sanders Then you're admitting that you don't care about this rape allegation. It's not even about bernie sanders Substitute bernie sanders for anyone else. Amy klobuchar peep buddha judge elizabeth warren I would prefer bernie sanders, but the principle is We shouldn't have a rapist an alleged rapist be the nominee And you know, maybe my opinion is invalid here because I actually do believe tar read because I don't think it's surprising That someone who sniffs women's hair and had other women come forward and say that he made them feel uncomfortable You know, I don't think that this is too unbelievable here, but the point is We can do better than Joe biden And it doesn't matter if you think oh, this is a plot to bring back bernie sanders. We're saying Let the competition play out. It's halfway over Primaries were postponed because of covet 19. Just bring all the candidates back. Let's have a vote We don't have to go forward with the rapist This doesn't have to be about bernie sanders if the competition Were to you know, uh, happen again if everyone unsuspected their campaigns in a perfect world I would absolutely aggressively and relentlessly advocate for bernie sanders But i'm not delusional enough to think that he would be guaranteed a victory I'm not delusional enough to think that the dnc or democratic party leaders would install bernie sanders If anything what would happen is Joe biden would probably step down and obama behind the scenes as he usually does would get You know, uh, everyone to coalesce around some other democrat not named bernie sanders anyone but bernie sanders the point is Why are you just okay with a rapist an alleged rapist being the the nominee? I mean, it's just you have to have some standards and I get that you don't like purity tests But how could you not be just Disgusted by the fact that your choice will be Between the lesser of two rapists like how does that not just make you feel queasy about the state of american politics thinking about that Well, it doesn't matter because joy reed is doing exactly as she's paid to do Toe the party line and the dnc has already made it very clear. They're not going to look into joe biden They believe joe biden tom perez is you know a team player. He came from the obama biden administration So chances are nothing will come of this, but um, you know at least centrists They went full mask off and they showed their true colors if you didn't already see them for what they were Before all of this, but it truly is disgusting, but I will hand it to joy reed That is uh, really really I think effective propaganda I think the only person who is uh, even close to her in terms of pushing propaganda when she's at her best is tucker crawlson But this is truly just I mean this stuff. I think it works, right? If you can attach motive to a conspiracy that you're trying to gin up Then that is really effective, especially if you've been priming your audience over the years to believe that, you know Vladimir Putin is basically controlling every aspect of you know democratic life in america I mean just by tweeting about tower reed I'm reminded what it's like to be called a russian stooge or asset or tool because I was called a russian tool Everyone is a russian working for vladimir putin or a russian, but if they don't you know Denounce tower reed immediately and believe that joe biden is innocent and the man who sniffs women's hair Is you know not even remotely capable of doing something like this? I mean We live in Idiocracy the movie the fact that people believe Effective propagandists like you know joy reed it doesn't matter how effective and persuasive you are People should have common sense and know better, right? But the fact that they're not shows that we're really worse off than I think we even thought we were in america because um Centrists they may be too far gone. I mean we know that maggots shots are too far gone but centrists after they've kind of revealed themselves as you know party before everything else I don't know how we can convince these people if you know facts details Or just making a moral case isn't going to already convince them To just do the right thing