In 2020, MSNBC gave weekend host Joy Reid her own weeknight show, putting her in the time slot previously held by Chris Matthews, who was for 20 years the host of “Hardball.” They named the new show “The ReidOut.” I was glad to see it. Reid is a big improvement over Matthews, whose hyperactive, guest-interrupting, self-promoting shtick got old years ago.
Still, Reid’s performance Tuesday night, with our indicted Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby as her “exclusive” guest, left a lot to be desired. It was softball where some hardball was needed.
Reid gave Mosby and her media-savvy defense attorney, A. Scott Bolden, about 11 minutes to lay out the claim that Baltimore’s chief prosecutor is the victim of some kind of vendetta.
