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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

Conservatives clutch their pearls over the world's most iconic doll, Barbie

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Joy Reid leads this episode of The ReidOut with conservatives clutching their pearls over the world's most iconic doll, Barbie, whose movie smashed a glass ceiling when Greta Gerwig made history by earning the biggest domestic opening by a woman director, ever. Plus, Ron desantis is not backing down from his support for teaching children that slavery was not only not bad--it was an awesome job skills program! Also in this episode, judging by Donald Trump's social media, he may apparently believe another indictment is imminent. We have new information on when that indictment might be handed down. We also condemn Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's border cruelty including allegations of pushing migrants into the water, and defiance of a Justice Department order to remove dangerous barriers in the Rio Grande. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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Tonight on the readout. I didn't do it. I wasn't involved in it, but I think what they're

0:10.8

doing is I think that they're probably going to show some of the folks that eventually

0:16.4

parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into doing things later in life.

0:23.6

Really? Okay, Ron DeSantis is not backing down from his support for teaching children

0:29.8

that slavery was not only not so bad. It was an awesome job skills program. You're welcome

0:37.2

black people. As the right finds, a target even bigger than Hunter Biden. Her name is Barbie.

0:45.5

Also tonight, judging by Donald Trump's social media, he certainly believes another indictment

0:49.8

is imminent. New information tonight on when that indictment might be handed down. Plus,

0:56.6

Greg Abbott's border cruelty, allegations of pushing migrants into the water and defiance

1:02.2

of a justice department order to remove dangerous barriers in the Rio Grande.

1:08.0

But we begin tonight with conservatives clutching their little pearls over the world's

1:15.1

most iconic doll. That is, of course, Barbie, whose movie smashed a glass ceiling when Greta

1:21.3

Gerwig made history by earning the biggest domestic opening by a woman director ever.

1:28.2

Fans also flock to see Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, a biopic about the creator of

1:32.8

the atomic bomb. And so you had two movies, Coined Barbanheimer, representing the fourth

1:38.2

highest selling box office opening in history. And when you throw in how well the mermaid

1:44.0

movie did and into the spider verse this summer for the first time since COVID, it is

1:50.2

safe to say movies are back. And yet, conservatives are not enjoying the boom for the economy.

1:57.7

Instead, they are big mad about Barbie, which is why we have conservative commentator and

2:03.0

grown man Ben Shapiro taking himself to the movies to hate watch it. And because Ben

2:08.4

was so mad and so monely, he released a 42 minute video screen that included setting

2:15.2

fire to Barbie dolls in protest over the films perceived anti-man walkeness. Are you

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