Joy Reid is reportedly plotting revenge against MSNBC after she was fired over poor ratings.
Reid, 56, is ‘ready to burn the house down,’ according to a report by Radar Online that claims the pundit is ‘livid’ and ready to reveal everything she knows about the innerworkings at MSNBC.
‘MSNBC wants her to sign an NDA, but that’s not going to happen. If they think they are going to silence her, they better think again,’ a source told Radar Online.
DailyMail.com has reached out to MSNBC for comment on the NDA claim.
Reid was fired from the network last month after her ratings plummeted and her style upset executives.
Status News reported that Reid’s constant progressive, anti-Trump rants unsettled MSNBC bosses who are seeking to foster a less biased-sounding liberal news network during the second Trump administration.
Reid’s commitment to promoting ultra progressive causes ‘offered an easy target to attack MSNBC’s editorial stances’ as the network tries to overhaul its programming and recover from bad ratings, Status reported.
The writing was reportedly on the wall for Reid as early as last year, when her five year contract with MSNBC ended and she was only offered a one year extension.
Joy Reid is reportedly ready to launch revenge against MSNBC after she was fired last month
Reid, 56, is ‘ready to burn the house down,’ according to a report by Radar Online
MSNBC boss Rebecca Kutler insisted in a meeting with the Read Out’s staff that Donald Trump was not a factor in the decision and the network’s changes were made based on ‘data analysis and programming strategy” that she believes will “best position MNSBC for the year ahead.’
MSNBC boss Rebecca Kutler summoned Reid’s staff for a meeting on Sunday that quickly grew ‘tense and emotional’
She said the show’s cancellation was part of a ‘broader slate of programming changes that will be laid out’ on Monday.
After her firing, Reid held a summit with Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O’Donnell and Nicole Wallace, all of whom praised Reid and expressed how sad they were that the show was ending but refused to criticize their bosses.
Reid broke down as she explained that she’s not sorry for having gone ‘hard on so many’ progressive issues like Black Lives Matter or immigrant rights on her primetime slot.
‘Whether it’s talking about any of these issues and, yes, whether it’s talking about Gaza and the fact that we as the American people have a right to object, to have a right to object to little babies being bombed,’ Reid went on.
‘And and where I come down on that is I’m not sorry. I am not sorry that I stood up for those those things because those things are of God.’
Reid’s three decade broadcasting career has been marred by multiple controversies – with her downfall sparked in 2017 when homophobic posts she had penned about ex Florida governor Charlie Crist from 2007 to 2009, emerged.
In 2018, anti-gay remarks were found on her old blog from posts in 2006, which she blamed on hackers at the time.
Joy Reid wept as she broke her silence after being fired from MSBNC
Other 2006 blog posts then came to light, including one that stated ‘current iterations of Islam are largely incompatible with Western notions of free speech and expression, and thus, I’d say, with the Bushian dream of Western style democracy for all.’
In 2020 she angered many by comparing radicalized supporters of President Trump to ‘the way Muslims act’ – causing Trump to call for her firing.
Following Donald Trump’s assassination attempt last summer, Reid was slammed for taking to X and sharing conspiracies, including that he may not have even been shot at all.
