Joy Reid slammed for comparing Florida residents fleeing Ian to illegal migrants flooding the border
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MSNBC host Joy Reid cheated for comparing Florida residents fleeing Hurricane Ian to illegal migrants flooding the border in an ’embarrassing’ attempt to politicize the natural disaster
- The MSNBC host said Governor Ron DeSantis should do more than just “own the libraries” as Florida prepares for Hurricane Ian
- Reid was criticized for comparing the 2.5 Floridians under evacuation orders to the hordes of illegal migrants streaming across the US southern border
- Reid and some of her colleagues from liberal media pundits have been criticized for trying to politicize the life-threatening hurricane as it makes landfall
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MSNBC host Joy Reid faced a reaction to a comment she made Tuesday night, comparing Floridians evacuating before Hurricane Ian to the illegal migrants flooding the US border.
Reid was criticized online for politicizing the natural disaster, which has so far left 650,000 Floridians without power and endangered the lives and livelihoods of millions more.
On Tuesday’s edition of The ReidOut, the host noted that Governor Ron DeSantis (R) should pause “owning the libraries” to contain the natural disaster hitting his state.
DeSantis was governor of Florida during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, overseeing a successful mitigation effort and reopening the economy. He also oversaw the response to Hurricane Sally, which hit the Florida panhandle in September 2020.
“It’s kind of ironic now that you may have Floridians who have to flow across borders and move north and leave the state of Florida in the exact same crisis that we’ve been talking about at a trolling level in that state for a long time,” Reid said. .
“Be careful attacking people who have to move to save their own lives and safety because you never know…when it’s your people who have to migrate, when it’s your people who have to go down that road,” he added. them to it.
MSNBC host Joy Reid said on her show Tuesday night that Floridians fleeing Ian were similar to illegal migrants flooding the US border.
Traffic on Interstate 4 in Tampa on Tuesday as some Floridians left the area before Ian’s arrival
Hurricane Ian passed Naval Air Station (NAS) Key West on the night of Sept. 27, causing flood damage, and made landfall in southwest Florida on Wednesday afternoon.
About 2.5 million Floridians were under evacuation orders before the Category 4 storm made landfall Wednesday afternoon with winds up to 255 mph.
Online critics were quick to attack Reid’s clumsy comparison and politicization of a natural disaster.
‘Oh, let’s wring some party politics out of a natural’ [absolutely nothing to do with carbon emissions] disaster. What a hack,” wrote one Twitter user.
“Even in the face of impending doom, they can’t leave politics for a day,” wrote another.
“I wonder why these listener/viewerless channels insist on hiring the weakest people in the country?” wrote a third.
Reid was among a number of liberal media pundits who savagely attacked DeSantis for sending several dozen illegal migrants to Martha’s Vineyard earlier this month to protest the Biden administration’s failure to respond to the crisis on the southern border.
Reid’s desire to drag Hurricane Ian into the American left-right political landscape came just before her left-wing media colleague Don Lemon at CNN pushed a climate change topic of conversation on a NOAA hurricane expert.
The acting director of the National Hurricane repeatedly shut down Lemon, and the interaction garnered a similar amount of online vitriol and ridicule.
Illegal Venezuelan migrants were put on planes paid for by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and sent to the wealthy island enclave of Martha’s Vineyard to protest Biden’s failed border response