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Thursday, April 28, 2022

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The week in whoppers: Joy Reid’s ugly slurs, WaPo’s scaremongering and more

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MSNBC host Joy Reid claimed that Elon Musk misses apartheid in South Africa. NY Post composite / istock/ Getty Images

Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions

This slur:

“[Elon Musk and the right] want to . . . be able to punch people in the face . . . and laugh about it. . . . I guess [Musk] misses the old [apartheid] South Africa.”

— MSNBC host Joy Reid, April 26

We say: Reid blasts Elon Musk and conservatives for wanting to “harass,” “punch people in the face” and spread misinformation on Twitter. But in making such an outrageous suggestion, she herself is engaging in precisely the kind of ugly, slanderous attacks she accuses Musk of waging. Do talking heads like Reid ever listen to themselves?