Appearing on Fox News @ Night early Friday morning, NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck identified far-left MSNBC host Joy Reid’s “stupid and sophomoric” accusation that conservative Supreme Court justices are “fine” with supposed GOP efforts “to hurt black people” as a media low-light of the week. He also touted Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich pressing Jen Psaki on Biden administration drug policy as a highlight.
“We’re beginning a new segment here on Fox News @ Night tonight where a couple of our media experts take a hard look at what the mainstream media outlets got right and wrong in their coverage of this week’s news,” anchor Shannon Bream explained as she introduced Houck and The Hill’s media opinion columnist Joe Concha.
For his media low-light of the week, Houck selected Reid and one of her favorite fellow unhinged leftists launching into a racially-charged tirade on her Wednesday night show:
JOY REID: The five judicial right-wing horsemen of the Maga-pocalypse decided that it is fine for Alabama to gerrymander to hurt black people so long as they don’t explicitly say race.
ELIE MYSTAL [THE NATION JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT]: This is no longer like Jim Crow. This is Jim Crow. This is what the Court did back during the Jim Crow era.
After the soundbite, Houck observed: “I mean, if it weren’t so – such a serious topic and such a serious network where people actually listen to Joy Reid and Elie Mystal, we would be able to mock it and dismiss it as really just stupid and sophomoric.” He added: “But, you know, again this is an example of what Joy Reid and Elie Mystal and the rest of the news media think about tens of millions of people who simply don’t vote the way that they do.”
Houck also pointed out Reid’s recent laughable assertion that she’s a journalist: “You know, this is what you come to expect from Joy Reid, who just that same day said in The Washington Post that she’s a journalist because she works for MSNBC, which is attached to NBC News. So really the jokes in that case write themselves.”
“But again it is such a serious topic because she engages in such incendiary rhetoric day after day,” Houck warned.
At the top of the segment, Houck revealed FNC’s Heinrich as his media highlight of the week:
I picked it because Jacqui Heinrich, like Peter Doocy and a number of other reporters in the briefing room, do a really good job of asking really respectful questions where it’s give and take with Jen Psaki. They’ll ask the question, Jen Psaki answers. And that’s really how the briefing room should go. It’s such a refreshing departure from the sophomoric and utter nonsense we saw for the last four years with some folks from CNN during the Trump years.
Bream replied: “We are big fans of our reporters over there in the White House and what they’re getting done.”
Here is a transcript of the February 11 appearance:
12:12 AM ET
SHANNON BREAM: We’re beginning a new segment here on Fox News @ Night tonight where a couple of our media experts take a hard look at what the mainstream media outlets got right and wrong in their coverage of this week’s news. So let’s bring in NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck and The Hill media opinion columnist, Fox News contributor Joe Concha. Great to have you with us tonight, gentlemen.
CURTIS HOUCK: Good to be with you, Shannon.
JOE CONCHA: Good to see you, Shannon. Happy Friday-ish.
BREAM: Okay, so – yes, we call it Fri-yay here. And on the east coast, it is. So I’m going to accept that.
Okay, Curtis, I want to start with you. This is your highlight, involving a familiar face to our Fox folks, here it is.
JACQUI HEINRICH [FNC WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT]: Can you clarify for us, were they never a part of the kit or where they removed in response to this reporting and this push-back?
JEN PSAKI: They were never a part of the kit. It was inaccurate reporting. And we wanted to put out information to make that clear.
HEINRICH: What is in the safe-smoking kit?
PSAKI: The safe-smoking kit may contain alcohol swabs, lip balm, and other materials to promote hygiene and reduce the transmission of diseases like HIV and hepatitis.
BREAM: Curtis, this is about the discussion of whether federal taxpayer dollars were going to be used for crack pipes. Why’d you pick it?
HOUCK: Yeah, I picked it because Jacqui Heinrich, like Peter Doocy and a number of other reporters in the briefing room, do a really good job of asking really respectful questions where it’s give and take with Jen Psaki. They’ll ask the question, Jen Psaki answers. And that’s really how the briefing room should go. It’s such a refreshing departure from the sophomoric and utter nonsense we saw for the last four years with some folks from CNN during the Trump years.
BREAM: We are big fans of our reporters over there in the White House and what they’re getting done.
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12:17 AM ET
BREAM: Okay, so Curtis, now to your low-light. This involves Joy Reid and company. Here's a bit of that.
JOY REID: The five judicial right-wing horsemen of the Maga-pocalypse decided that it is fine for Alabama to gerrymander to hurt black people so long as they don’t explicitly say race.
ELIE MYSTAL [THE NATION JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT]: This is no longer like Jim Crow. This is Jim Crow. This is what the Court did back during the Jim Crow era.
BREAM: And yeah, Curtis, these gerrymandering cases all over the country in a number of states are getting a lot of attention.
HOUCK: Yeah, I mean, if it weren’t so – such a serious topic and such a serious network where people actually listen to Joy Reid and Elie Mystal, we would be able to mock it and dismiss it as really just stupid and sophomoric. But, you know, again this is an example of what Joy Reid and Elie Mystal and the rest of the news media think about tens of millions of people who simply don’t vote the way that they do.
You know, this is what you come to expect from Joy Reid, who just that same day said in The Washington Post that she’s a journalist because she works for MSNBC, which is attached to NBC News. So really the jokes in that case write themselves.
But again it is such a serious topic because she engages in such incendiary rhetoric day after day. But thankfully no one really watches MSNBC, but in her case, it’s good for her, because, you know, there’s a ceiling – there’s a floor below them, and it’s CNN, which is losing to crazy shows like Moonshiners and my 600-pound life instead of, you know, anything else.
CONCHA: That’s a good show, Curtis, come on.
BREAM: Hey listen, don’t hate on 600-Pound Life, I actually love that show. So maybe that says something about me, but I find it fascinating. I find you two fascinating and I hope you’ll come back as we have this regular kind of media review of the week. Thank you, both.
HOUCK: Thanks, Shannon.
CONCHA: Thank you, Shannon. Happy night.
BREAM: Alright, see you soon. You too.
