Joy Reid’s hot mic moment led to an apology to viewers on Monday after her jarring off-camera “chatter.”
The MSNBC host had to “deeply, deeply apologize” after dropping the f-bomb while momentarily off camera as a clip of President Joe Biden played on Monday’s airing of “The ReidOut.”
During the segment, Reid had been addressing the border crisis when she introduced a video clip of Biden speaking at an event in South Carolina on Saturday.
“If that bill were the law today, I’d shut down the border right now and fix it quickly… And Congress needs to get it done,” Biden said, in an apparent reference to a bipartisan bill being negotiated on the southern border.
But Reid evidently did not realize her microphone was still on and, off camera, she was heard saying, what sounded like, “Starting another f–king war” with a laugh before quickly being cut.
Oklahoma Republicans censure Sen. Lankford for taking part in bipartisan border negotiations.
The f-bomb blooper 35 seconds into the clip cracked me up. You’re right, Joy Reid! They wanna start another fucking war. 🤬#RepublicansAreDestroyingAmerica#VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy pic.twitter.com/iCFe5R1qdF
— Anonymous Bosh 🟧💙🌊🇺🇦💨 (@MyAnonymousBosh) January 30, 2024
As the camera returned to her, Reid attempted to continue with the segment.
“Still trying to kill the deal,” she said, jabbing at former President Donald Trump and comments he had made over the weekend. “He bragged about blocking progress and said, ‘Please, please, blame him if it fails.’”
At the end of the show, Reid addressed the elephant in the room.
“Before we go, I just want to apologize very quickly,” Reid said. “I was chatting during a clip that was playing, and you know, we try to keep this show very PG-13, so I just want to apologize to anyone who was listening to my ‘behind the scenes’ chatter. I deeply, deeply apologize for that.”
And the apology! pic.twitter.com/aJdidizUN4
— Steven💙💛 (@OP_StevenS) January 30, 2024
In an homage to the 2018 controversy when she claimed she was hacked and later apologized for writing homophobic blog posts, some X users suggested that same thing may have been what happened on Monday’s segment.
time traveling hacker white supremacists*
— ☢️ False Flag ☢️ (@HTL1776) January 30, 2024
WHITE supremacist time travellers made her say it. Obvi.
— SmartyLocaChica (@ChicaSmarty) January 30, 2024
Social media reactions seemed less offended by the language and more intrigued by the leftist MSNBC host actually breaking from the Democrat narrative.
Joy Reid caught on a hot mic calling out Biden for “starting another f**king war”
Out of all the stuff she’s done, this is both the most sane thing she’s ever said AND the most likely to get her into real trouble with her bosses at MSNBC. 🧐pic.twitter.com/NroB1USkGh
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) January 30, 2024
So they don’t like him either, just a bunch of paid actors
— 🔱 💃 (@BingHudson86) January 30, 2024
Both my husband and I looked at each other! “Did she just say?” “Yep.”
And she ain’t wrong.— Beth Hayer 🇨🇦 (@bethernet) January 30, 2024
They all show you who they are when they don’t think you are listening.
— GrrlSmurf (@_grrlsmurf) January 30, 2024
Her authentic hot mic self might get a bigger audience than her scripted show.
— Daymond Steer (@SteerDaymond) January 30, 2024
Biden White House is not happy one of their minions went off script.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 30, 2024
