Joyless

She was caught having made homophobic insinuations on her blog against former Florida politician Charlie Crist and tried to deflect blame for them to a nonexistent hacker.

She needled Tim Ryan for his ill-fated attempt to challenge Nancy Pelosi for House Democratic leadership and more or less accused him of ageism.

She promoted hip-hop as an essential art form to the progressive movement more than anyone she shared air time with on the same cable news channel except Ari Melber.  And her defenses of hip-hop always had a smug and superior undertone to them, as if to suggest that any other form of popular music - say, classic rock - was just a bunc hof hackwork.

She also sounded smug and superior about just about anything else and made viewers feel inferior even when they agreed with her.

And then there was her voice.  You think Kamala Harris has an annoying voice?  This woman had a really annoying voice - the voice of a self-absorbed know-it-all.

So don't expect me to shed any tears over Joy Reid's departure from MSNBC - a channel I don't watch any more - and the cancellation of her show.  Yeah, I know she was canned for trash-talking Trump, but I'm still ticked off at her for for trash-talking Charlie Crist and Tim Ryan and just generally being annoying.

Do yourself a favor, people, listen to podcasts instead.  MeidasTouch is your best bet.