The Issue: Joy Reid’s comments about Kyle Rittenhouse’s “white crocodile tears” during his trial.
It is completely ironic that Joy Reid has the given name “Joy,” for there is nothing remotely “joyful” in her demeanor. She is, as Miranda Devine pointed out, a racist sociopath of the worst order (“MSNBC host’s crying shame,” Nov. 15).
Rachel Maddow is no bargain, with her refusal to acknowledge or even apologize for defaming former President Donald Trump as a Russian agent, but Joy Reid is a study in white hatred and reverse racism.
This is obviously in keeping with MSNBC executive Rashida Jones’ desire to keep fanning the flames of hatred.
Keep it up, guys, and watch your ratings fall even faster.
David Emerson
Manhattan
I love Devine. She had the guts to call Reid a racist sociopath, and I have the guts to agree with her.
I’m so tired of this systemic-racist junk that leftists throw around. Kyle Rittenhouse is white. The rioters were also white, and many of them were from different cities.
Reid thinks the Kenosha riot was justified because it involved Black Lives Matter and Antifa.
President Biden has trashed Rittenhouse as a white supremacist. I watched the whole trial. The prosecutor didn’t follow the facts. The defense did a magnificent job.
Imelda De Martin
Red Bank, NJ
Can you imagine the stink that the liberal media would make if Sean Hannity or Tucker Carlson said about black people what Reid says about white people?
Devine nailed it on the head — Reid is an unapologetic racist.
Barry Koppel
Kew Gardens Hills
Congratulations to Devine on her accurate article about Reid.
She is a cold, heartless person, whose ludicrous thinking is inexcusable.
Linda Shukofsky
Valley Stream
Excellent article by Devine calling out Reid, who is nothing more than the female version of Rev. Al Sharpton.
Her smug, self-righteous life completely revolves around the fact that she is a black woman, always the victim and in her mind, always right. It is all she has in her media arsenal.
Robert Henry
Palm City, Fla.
The Issue: Geoffrey Corn and Richard Natonski’s op-ed column on Hamas’ attacks on Israel this year.
Mark Twain once lamented: “Lies get halfway round the world before truth gets its boots on” (“Hamas, Not Israel, Is the War Criminal,” Geoffrey Corn and Richard Natonski,” PostOpinion, Nov. 15).
The Israel Defense Forces is both the world’s most maligned and most moral army. It goes to extraordinary lengths to avoid civilian casualties.
In complete contrast, Hamas’ own grotesque, immoral military doctrine is to deliberately endanger its own civilians, placing fighters and munitions among them, and then exploiting resultant inevitable deaths, injuries and destruction for its own poisonous propaganda.
Richard Wilkins
Syracuse
Lt. Gen. Natonski and Lt. Col. Corn depict Hamas’ criminal acts against civilians, both their own and Israel’s.
The world’s harsh criticisms against Israel, in spite of its extreme and self-limiting actions to reduce civilian casualties, can only be attributed to one never-ending factor — anti-Semitism.
Perhaps the most noxious outcome of this scenario was the reactions of my brethren, i.e., America’s Jews, who readily agreed with the outlooks of their enemies, all aligned against Israel.
Sam Frazer
Fort Myers, Fla.
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