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Tough-talking actor Samuel L. Jackson wished President Donald Trump a happy birthday on Friday, but the Twitterverse took exception to the perceived anti-gay slurs in the message and laid their vengeance upon him. Jackson’s tweet: "Must have been a party at The White House, Mitch, Paul, Rudy & others were spotted…

It isn't surprising that MSNBC is still supporting the blog besieged and increasingly apologizing Joy Reid but Sean Hannity might have been one of the last people you'd think would come forward to say the host should keep her cable gig. But that's what the accurately self-described "number one rated host in cable" did…

MSNBC is standing by Joy Reid in the wake of new revelations about even more incendiary old blog posts. “Some of the things written by Joy on her old blog are obviously hateful and hurtful,” MSNBC said this afternoon in a statement. This after Reid issued yet another statement explaining/apologizing/defending her…

MSNBC host Joy Reid has apologized for disparaging comments against LGBT people found on her blog The Reid Report, admitting that there has been no evidence of hacking discovered. After earlier denying authorship of the hurtful remarks, Reid came clean Saturday at the beginning of her MSNBC show AM Joy.  "I genuinely…

Updated with Daily Beast column suspension: The Daily Beast suspended Joy Reid's column as its cybersecurity and media reporters investigate Reid's claims she is victim of a cyberattack in which dozens of homophobic statements were added into the archive of her old blog. Daily Beast Executive Editor Noah Shachtman…

Visiting Texas and boasting Hurricane Harvey is the biggest disaster of all time is the way President Donald Trump speaks about everything, MSNBC’s Joy Reid explained to Trevor Noah on The Daily Show. “He sees everything in terms of ratings and crowd size,” Reid said last night. “The accomplishment he sees in Harvey…

UPDATED with video: President Donald Trump’s post-truth world has to change the way the press does its job, Joy Reid told The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah. “Journalists are accustomed to, when the president says something…you just report it. But now, something Donald Trump tweets is not a headline you can just translate…

Updated with video An angry and shaken Jennifer Holliday said she was called “Aunt Jemima” and worse by some African Americans in the online response to her now-canceled plans to perform for Donald Trump’s pre-inaugural celebration. (See the video below.) “They were calling me coon, calling me house n***er, calling me…

MSNBC made it official today, announcing that Joy Reid will host a new weekend program on Saturdays and Sundays 10 AM-Noon ET, starting May 7. Yes, that’s the timeslot formerly held by MHP, hosted by Melissa Harris-Perry, who left in a hail of tweets and emails after refusing to return to the slot to host…

One year after debuting them with unimpressive numbers, MSNBC finally threw in the towel on Ronan Farrow’s show and The Reid Report because the botched experiment with going after the multi-platform generation was flatlining. In February 2015, compared to Andrea Mitchell Reports in the same time slot in February 2014…

MSNBC‘s Ronan Farrow Daily slipped slightly in its second telecast Tuesday, averaging 209,000 viewers — 45,000 of them in the news demo —  but his audience crept up to 34,000 in the younger 18-49 demo. Still, even his young demo numbers fell short of one year ago, when Andrea Mitchell Reports logged 492,000 viewers in…

More than four months after MSNBC confirmed that Ronan Farrow would be getting his own show on the cable news network, he finally has a debut date. Farrow's yet unnamed show will premiere on February 24 at 1 PM ET, MSNBC announced this morning.  Also joining the daytime lineup is longtime contributor and Grio.com…