“If you are Black or Brown, or a liberal or immigrant or Democrat, or a woman unwilling to quietly submit, then Ailes was the ultimate villain. You were the object of mockery and scorn - sometimes overt, often subtle. You were the thing to be gawked at, pawed at, jeered at, propositioned or feared.”

American political commentator and television host

Joy Reid is an American political commentator and television host. She was born in 1968 and became widely known through her work on MSNBC, including as host of The ReidOut from 2020 to 2025. Before that, she anchored The Reid Report from 2014 to 2015 and AM Joy from 2016 to 2020, and also worked as a national correspondent for MSNBC. Her public voice is tied to political analysis and commentary.