New York Times columnist Charles Blow joined MSNBC’s Joy Reid on Thursday’s installment of The ReidOut to react to the reaction to the New Orleans New Year’s truck attack by an ISIS supporter that killed 14 people where he claimed that the big problem is that the attack was “one crime committed by one name that sounds exotic,” and that allows people to ignore the “really big problem, which is young white men in America.”
Reid led Blow with a statement rather than a question, “And last word to you on this, Charles, because this is the challenge. It's very difficult to feel safe when, on top of everything that Mayor Landrieu just said, you have politicians that have a self-interest in lying about everything because it helps them with the political narrative, not concerned about the human narrative that could actually be really helpful.”
Reid did not explicitly mention Donald Trump in that statement, but she mentioned him earlier in the segment and MSNBC’s chyron made it obvious that is who she was referring to and while Trump did prematurely blame the attack on an immigrant, Blow was about to prove that he too can use a terrorist act to spin an unrelated political narrative.
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