When Joy Reid was finally taken off the air by MSNBC, we all lost a reliable source of content that ranged from the simply overheatedly wrong and conspiratorial to the spectacularly and insanely wrong. Without a television platform, she would really need to raise her game to attract notice. Just ask poor Keith Olbermann, who today is reduced to the role of a “reply guy” — yelling at people in their replies on social media to get the crumbs of their traffic. After all, Reid can stay in the news based on old reports of her saying crazy antisemitic things behind the scenes for only so long.
But fear not for Ms. Reid. She is up to the challenge, as she demonstrated with this gem of cultural illiteracy on Bluesky: “We will never be a monarchy. Know that. To quote the LOTR trilogy: Gondor has no king. Gondor needs no king.” It would be difficult to pack more wrong into fewer words. Reid’s analogy is such a catastrophic misreading of Lord of the Rings that it would embarrass even Amazon. And in the . . .
