{"id":853638,"date":"2021-10-06T17:29:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T21:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=853638"},"modified":"2021-10-06T17:29:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T21:29:17","slug":"republicans-pounced-on-kyrsten-sinema-bathroom-confrontation-joy-reid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-pounced-on-kyrsten-sinema-bathroom-confrontation-joy-reid\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans \u2018Pounced\u2019 On Kyrsten Sinema Bathroom Confrontation: Joy Reid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Frepublicans-pounced-on-kyrsten-sinema-bathroom-confrontation-joy-reid%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=853638&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Joy-Reid-e1599053271704.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday night, MSNBC host Joy Reid complained that \u201cthe Republican Party has pounced on\u201d video footage of left-wing activists harassing Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/sinema-hits-back-after-leftists-film-her-in-restroom-make-demands-wholly-inappropriate\">inside a restroom<\/a>. Reid essentially justified the protesters\u2019 decision to record a U.S. senator in the lavatory, blithely saying that while their behavior was \u201cnot ideal,\u201d this case constitutes \u201cdesperate times, desperate measures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the biggest debates ripping through Twitter right now is about a bathroom or, rather, whether it was appropriate for activists to follow Senator Sinema into a bathroom, demanding action on DACA and the reconciliation bill,\u201d said Reid during the final segment of \u201cThe ReidOut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reid said the self-described illegal immigrant accosted the senator in a bathroom stall because Sinema does not hold enough public meetings. \u201cNow, I think we can all agree it\u2019s not ideal for any party involved to follow anyone into a bathroom for any reason \u2014 but keep in mind, the Arizona senator has canceled her in-person meetings and hasn\u2019t hosted a town hall in three years, so desperate times, desperate measures,\u201d ranted Reid.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.8905109489051\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In this edition of &#8220;The Absolute Worst,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoyAnnReid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JoyAnnReid<\/a> critiques the members of the Republican Party who have proliferated harassment and violence, now apparently calling for decency. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheReidOut?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheReidOut<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/reiders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#reiders<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/teH2BGXlwt\">pic.twitter.com\/teH2BGXlwt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The ReidOut (@thereidout) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thereidout\/status\/1445542548106215425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reid then accused Republicans in general, and Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) in particular, of acting hypocritically in condemning left-wing activists who physically confront U.S. senators in intimate settings while Republicans send mean tweets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-media-has-entered-the-republicans-pounce-stage-of-critical-race-theory\">the Republican Party has pounced<\/a> on the incident to reignite the decency debate, clutching all the pearls as they complain, \u2018What if those activists had been MAGA?\u2019\u201d said Reid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst off, the Republican Party saying <a href=\"http:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2009\/05\/all-the-rage\/\">the Left is uncivil<\/a>? Ha!\u201d she laughed. \u201cOK, I just had to get that out of my system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou, the Republican Party, proliferators of harassment and violence, you don\u2019t get to talk about decency,\u201d she said, citing the Capitol riot of January 6. \u201cConservatives manufactured outrage over masks and history lessons, [and] took our school boards hostage like a bunch of screaming maniacs,\u201d she added. \u201cYou betcha [Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene] would have followed David Hogg into a bathroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reid pivoted the show by contrasting left-wing activists\u2019 repeated acts of harassment with Republican Twitter jokes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust last night, your very own Senator Ted Cruz essentially <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1445176883792994304\">tweeted<\/a> \u2018F you, Biden,\u2019 using a \u2018Wheel of Fortune\u2019 meme,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.140350877193\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019d like to solve the puzzle\u2026.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LetsGoBrandon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LetsGoBrandon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Epl3TFEnob\">pic.twitter.com\/Epl3TFEnob<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1445176883792994304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cNo wonder Neera Tanden called him a vampire in her tweets,\u201d she said, calling the senator \u201cCancun Cruz\u201d and addressing him by his birth name. \u201cRafael, no one is looking to you for political decency,\u201d Reid said before naming the Texas Republican Tuesday\u2019s \u201cabsolute worst.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reid\u2019s statements signal a growing public backlash against left-wing activists pushing the senator to give amnesty to illegal immigrants through the reconciliation process, something the Senate parliamentarian has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/friday-october-1-2021\">rejected<\/a> twice. In a statement after the event, Senator Sinema said, \u201cIt is the duty of elected leaders to avoid \u2026 creating a permission structure for unacceptable behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reid also contrasts with many other cable news talk show hosts in excusing the restroom activism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you violate someone\u2019s privacy, it blurs a line between activism and harassment. I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s even that blurry. It\u2019s harassment,\u201d said CNN\u2019s Don Lemon on Monday night. \u201cVery few arguments, if any, have been won by yelling at someone in a bathroom. OK?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said the same thing when Tucker Carlson was accosted in a fishing store this summer. It was going too far then, and it is going too far now,\u201d Lemon said.<\/p>\n<p>The top-rated host in cable news, Tucker Carlson, forthrightly condemned the protesters\u2019 aggressive actions on Fox News Tuesday night and chided President Joe Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-on-kyrsten-sinema-being-harassed-in-bathroom-it-happens-to-everybody-part-of-the-process\">nonchalant<\/a> response. \u201cIt is not normal to harass someone in a lady\u2019s room, period. It\u2019s not acceptable,\u201d said Carlson. Yet the Biden administration \u201chas no problem when its political allies terrorize sitting U.S. senators in bathrooms. \u2026 Joe Biden has no problem with it; he said that yesterday. But you should have a huge problem with it. This is the path to chaos and violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turning to Attorney General Merrick Garland\u2019s decision to have the federal government investigate parents who complain at public school board meetings, Carlson said Democrats in government \u201chave a problem with you \u2014 the person who pays taxes, sends your child to public school. They\u2019re telling you that you have no right to be outraged, and the school teaches your children they can change their gender at will and that white people are evil. There\u2019s not a problem at all. The problem is you complaining about it, and if you do, the DOJ will target you like a domestic terrorist using the Patriot Act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday night, MSNBC host Joy Reid complained that \u201cthe Republican Party has pounced on\u201d video footage of left-wing activists harassing Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) inside a restroom. 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