{"id":1068168,"date":"2021-11-30T11:14:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T16:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1068168"},"modified":"2021-11-30T11:14:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T16:14:55","slug":"joy-reid-rick-wilson-laugh-at-dumb-ass-red-state-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joy-reid-rick-wilson-laugh-at-dumb-ass-red-state-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy Reid, Rick Wilson Laugh At \u2018Dumb Ass\u2019 Red State Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoy-reid-rick-wilson-laugh-at-dumb-ass-red-state-americans%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1068168&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>MSNBC\u2019s Joy Reid and Rick Wilson, a co-founder of the scandal-plagued Lincoln Project, took turns insulting Red State Americans on Monday night, calling any unvaccinated American \u201ca dumb ass\u201d and dreaming of putting Republicans under a glass dome to create \u201ca dumb ass-tuary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reid mused that Republicans hope to keep alive just enough conservative voters to \u201cintimidate black voters and make sure they can\u2019t vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The name-calling session began as Wilson, co-founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-gop-needs-to-be-burned-down-to-the-ground-according-to-msnbcs-republican-commentator\">anti-Republican<\/a> organization beset by allegations that <a href=\"https:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2015\/06\/john-kasich-just-hired-a-strategist-who-has-waged-war-on-conservative-christians\/\">another of its co-founders<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/deplorable-and-predatory-behavior-the-lincoln-project-condemns-cofounder-after-nyt-reports-he-allegedly-sexually-harassed-14-year-old-boy\">sexually harassed young males<\/a>, accused \u201cRepublican governors,\u201d like Florida\u2019s Ron DeSantis and Texas\u2019 Greg Abbott , of playing \u201cstupid games\u201d by allowing Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/153-employees-at-houston-hospital-who-refused-covid-19-vaccine-have-been-fired-or-quit-report\">fired<\/a> for refusing to obey their employers\u2019 vaccine mandates to collect unemployment benefits.<\/p>\n<p>He then broadened his attacks to Americans who, he said, \u201cdidn\u2019t take the responsible adult human step to get vaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI missed that part when I was a young man reading <a href=\"https:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2004\/07\/farewell-chairman-bill\/\">[William F.] Buckley [Jr.]<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/road-serfdom-0\">[Friedrich von] Hayek<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/\">[Russell] Kirk<\/a> and all of the conservative greats \u2014 I missed the part about being a dumb ass when it comes to trying to save people\u2019s lives,\u201d Wilson said.<\/p>\n<p>Reid laughed loudly at Wilson\u2019s insult of Red State Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the show, Reid speculated about cordoning off Republicans\u2019 stupidity from the rest of the nation in a macabre science experiment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s almost like if we had a dome over the United States, there\u2019d be part of it that is like a dumb ass-tuary, right, where people are living in there, killing their own constituents, getting their own constituents sick, willing to let people die,\u201d Reid said.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson then burst out laughing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs there any way to crack that little dumb ass-tuary and let some people out, or are they just going to stay in there, get sick, and maybe die?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson replied by calling Republican-led states like Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama \u2014 as well as Louisiana, which is governed by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democratsforlife.org\/\">pro-life Democrat<\/a> \u2014 \u201cbasically Darwin\u2019s waiting room. These people are gonna either decide they\u2019re going to get vaccinated, or they\u2019re going to continue to watch their friends and neighbors and their family members die off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added they had been misled by Fox News, which he claimed was \u201can outright propaganda network against vaccination for months and months and months,\u201d although the network produced public service announcements encouraging its viewers to get vaccinated.&nbsp;\u201cPain is the only teacher in politics, so you\u2019re going to see states where people die off,\u201d Wilson said.<\/p>\n<p>Reid concluded the segment by playing the race card. \u201cIt\u2019s their own voters, but I guess they&nbsp;figure there will be enough of them left&nbsp;to, like, watch the polls and&nbsp;intimidate black voters and make&nbsp;sure they can\u2019t vote, and they figure that\u2019s all they need,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to call half of the electorate ignorant seemed like a flashback to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/sorry-mr-president-10-reasons-don-lemon-is-not-one-of-the-most-informed-journalists-in-the-country\">last January<\/a>, when Wilson and New York Times author&nbsp;Wajahat Ali joined CNN host Don Lemon to say that Trump voters are backwoods imbeciles who don\u2019t know anything about \u201cyer geography, and yer spellin\u2019, and yer math, and yer readin\u2019.\u201d As Wilson and Ali poured on the insults, Lemon laughed until he cried, dabbing tears from his eyes. The Republican National Committee found the episode so condescending and elitist that they turned the segment into a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-watch-gop-launches-campaign-ad-fundraiser-off-cnns-don-lemon-mocking-trump-supporters\">campaign ad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The arrogance, the dismissiveness, the smug cackling, the accents.<\/p>\n<p>If Donald Trump wins re-election this year, I\u2019ll remember this brief CNN segment late one Saturday night in January as the perfect encapsulation for why it happened. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8kQ6zN9AZV\">pic.twitter.com\/8kQ6zN9AZV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveKrak\/status\/1221988232528826369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Left\u2019s decision to insult much of the country\u2019s electorate harkens back to Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 <em>faux pas <\/em>of revealing that she considered \u201chalf\u201d of future President Donald Trump\u2019s supporters \u201cdeplorables\u201d and \u201cirredeemable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another moment of <em>d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu <\/em>came when Reid asked Dr. Anthony Fauci whether the Omicron variant or a successor mutation might become too impossible for vaccines to restrain \u2014 and had Dr. Fauci publicly rebuff her a second time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy team is sick of me saying this, but I\u2019ve&nbsp;<span data-id=\"214\" data-start=\"414799\" data-end=\"417001\">been likening the pandemic, this&nbsp;<span data-id=\"215\" data-start=\"417002\" data-end=\"419538\">virus to like the alien in [the movie]&nbsp;\u2018<span data-id=\"216\" data-start=\"419537\" data-end=\"419871\">Aliens.\u2019&nbsp;<span data-id=\"217\" data-start=\"419871\" data-end=\"422407\">Its whole goal is to jump into&nbsp;<span data-id=\"218\" data-start=\"422407\" data-end=\"424809\">different people and mutate into&nbsp;<span data-id=\"219\" data-start=\"424809\" data-end=\"426411\">different kinds of aliens,\u201d she said.&nbsp;<span data-id=\"224\" data-start=\"432750\" data-end=\"434486\">\u201cAt some point, isn\u2019t it true&nbsp;<span data-id=\"225\" data-start=\"434487\" data-end=\"436822\">this thing is going to mutate to&nbsp;<span data-id=\"226\" data-start=\"436822\" data-end=\"442162\">a kind of virus that we can\u2019t&nbsp;<span data-id=\"227\" data-start=\"442161\" data-end=\"444697\">stop with any vaccine or any&nbsp;<span data-id=\"228\" data-start=\"444698\" data-end=\"445065\">treatment?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-id=\"229\" data-start=\"445065\" data-end=\"447133\">\u201cNo,\u201d replied Dr. Fauci flatly. \u201cThat would be really highly&nbsp;<span data-id=\"230\" data-start=\"447134\" data-end=\"448134\">unlikely, Joy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dr. Fauci Responds To GOP Rep. Jackson Calling Omicron The \u2018Midterm Election Variant\u2019\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z5rMG0XcJko?start=395&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Reid previously asked Dr. Fauci the same question, nearly word-for-word, on the September 7 episode of \u201cThe ReidOut.\u201d As this author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-msnbc-interview-fauci-neither-asks-about-damning-covid-19-documents\">reported<\/a> at The Daily Wire:<\/p>\n<p><em>Dr. Fauci did rebut one of Reid\u2019s frequent fearmongering assertions: that the COVID-19 vaccination may not be able to protect<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC\u2019s Joy Reid and Rick Wilson, a co-founder of the scandal-plagued Lincoln Project, took turns insulting Red State Americans on Monday night, calling any unvaccinated American \u201ca dumb ass\u201d and dreaming of putting Republicans under a glass dome to create \u201ca dumb ass-tuary.\u201dReid mused that Republicans hope to keep alive just enough conservative voters to \u201cintimidate black voters and make sure they can\u2019t vote.\u201dThe name-calling session began as Wilson, co-founder of the anti-Republican organization beset by allegations that another of its co-founders sexually harassed young males, accused \u201cRepublican governors,\u201d like Florida\u2019s Ron DeSantis and Texas\u2019 Greg Abbott , of playing \u201cstupid games\u201d by allowing Americans fired for refusing to obey their employers\u2019 vaccine mandates to collect unemployment benefits.He then broadened his attacks to Americans who, he said, \u201cdidn\u2019t take the responsible adult human step to get vaccinated.\u201d\u201cI missed that part when I was a young man reading [William F.] Buckley [Jr.], and [Friedrich von] Hayek and [Russell] Kirk and all of the conservative greats \u2014 I missed the part about being a dumb ass when it comes to trying to save people\u2019s lives,\u201d Wilson said.Reid laughed loudly at Wilson\u2019s insult of Red State Americans.Later in the show, Reid speculated about cordoning off Republicans\u2019 stupidity from the rest of the nation in a macabre science experiment.\u201cIt\u2019s almost like if we had a dome over the United States, there\u2019d be part of it that is like a dumb ass-tuary, right, where people are living in there, killing their own constituents, getting their own constituents sick, willing to let people die,\u201d Reid said.Wilson then burst out laughing.\u201cIs there any way to crack that little dumb ass-tuary and let some people out, or are they just going to stay in there, get sick, and maybe die?\u201d she asked.Wilson replied by calling Republican-led states like Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama \u2014 as well as Louisiana, which is governed by a pro-life Democrat \u2014 \u201cbasically Darwin\u2019s waiting room. These people are gonna either decide they\u2019re going to get vaccinated, or they\u2019re going to continue to watch their friends and neighbors and their family members die off.\u201dHe added they had been misled by Fox News, which he claimed was \u201can outright propaganda network against vaccination for months and months and months,\u201d although the network produced public service announcements encouraging its viewers to get vaccinated.\u00a0\u201cPain is the only teacher in politics, so you\u2019re going to see states where people die off,\u201d Wilson said.Reid concluded the segment by playing the race card. \u201cIt\u2019s their own voters, but I guess they\u00a0figure there will be enough of them left\u00a0to, like, watch the polls and\u00a0intimidate black voters and make\u00a0sure they can\u2019t vote, and they figure that\u2019s all they need,\u201d she said.The decision to call half of the electorate ignorant seemed like a flashback to last January, when Wilson and New York Times author\u00a0Wajahat Ali joined CNN host Don Lemon to say that Trump voters are backwoods imbeciles who don\u2019t know anything about \u201cyer geography, and yer spellin\u2019, and yer math, and yer readin\u2019.\u201d As Wilson and Ali poured on the insults, Lemon laughed until he cried, dabbing tears from his eyes. The Republican National Committee found the episode so condescending and elitist that they turned the segment into a\u00a0campaign ad.The arrogance, the dismissiveness, the smug cackling, the accents.If Donald Trump wins re-election this year, I\u2019ll remember this brief CNN segment late one Saturday night in January as the perfect encapsulation for why it happened. pic.twitter.com\/8kQ6zN9AZV\u2014 Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) January 28, 2020The Left\u2019s decision to insult much of the country\u2019s electorate harkens back to Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 faux pas of revealing that she considered \u201chalf\u201d of future President Donald Trump\u2019s supporters \u201cdeplorables\u201d and \u201cirredeemable.\u201dAnother moment of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu came when Reid asked Dr. Anthony Fauci whether the Omicron variant or a successor mutation might become too impossible for vaccines to restrain \u2014 and had Dr. Fauci publicly rebuff her a second time.\u201cMy team is sick of me saying this, but I\u2019ve\u00a0been likening the pandemic, this\u00a0virus to like the alien in [the movie]\u00a0\u2018Aliens.\u2019\u00a0Its whole goal is to jump into\u00a0different people and mutate into\u00a0different kinds of aliens,\u201d she said.\u00a0\u201cAt some point, isn\u2019t it true\u00a0this thing is going to mutate to\u00a0a kind of virus that we can\u2019t\u00a0stop with any vaccine or any\u00a0treatment?\u201d\u201cNo,\u201d replied Dr. Fauci flatly. \u201cThat would be really highly\u00a0unlikely, Joy.\u201d[embedded content]Reid previously asked Dr. Fauci the same question, nearly word-for-word, on the September 7 episode of \u201cThe ReidOut.\u201d As this author reported at The Daily Wire:Dr. Fauci did rebut one of Reid\u2019s frequent fearmongering assertions: that the COVID-19 vaccination may not be able to protect against the virus\u2019 variants.\u201cI have been likening it to like the movie \u2018Aliens,\u2019\u201d Reid said. \u201cAre you worried that we\u2019re going to have a nightmare this winter, as these variants continue to evolve? Are we getting close to one that can beat all of our vaccines?\u201d\u201cWell, I\u2019m not saying we\u2019re close to that, Joy. I think that would be a stretch to say that,\u201d Dr. Fauci replied. \u201cBut I do say that there\u2019s always the danger that that could happen.\u201dInterestingly, the MSNBC\u00a0transcript\u00a0of the episode has Fauci say, \u201cI think that\u00a0wouldn\u2019t\u00a0be a stretch to say that.\u201d Video of the segment is below:[embedded content]On Monday\u2019s show, Reid also implied that President Donald Trump had been a \u201cclient\u201d of Jeffrey Epstein.\u201cJeffrey Epstein had a lot of information \u2026 including a lot of high-profile alleged clients\u2019 names. Here\u2019s one of them. Here\u2019s Donald Trump.\u201d.@CevallosLaw: &#8220;The eerie difference is the speculation that well, if Trump actually met and knew Maxwell, why exactly is he wishing her well, and what effect could that have on the trial.&#8221; #TheReidOut #reiders pic.twitter.com\/mye5Z4nYuq\u2014 The ReidOut (@thereidout) November 30, 2021Epstein, who died in prison despite strict guarding procedures, had a painting of former President Bill Clinton wearing a blue dress. Clinton flew on Epstein\u2019s private jet, the Lolita Express, at least 26 times, according to an analysis of flight logs.The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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