"Dumbest Way To Go Viral" - Joy Reid's CRAZY Claim Elvis' Nickname Is RACIST
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🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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MSNBC’s Joy Reid sparks backlash after calling Elvis Presley’s “King of Rock & Roll” title racist. The panel slams her divisive rant, defends Elvis’ legacy, cites Jillian Michaels’ CNN pushback on slavery narratives, and highlights why Elvis’ voice and love of America still earn him respect.
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| 0:00.0 | I want to go to the story of Joy Reed and Elvis Presley. |
| 0:02.5 | This one just really is, I don't understand it. |
| 0:05.4 | I don't understand, you know, to go after something like this. |
| 0:10.6 | It's almost like she wakes up in the morning saying, |
| 0:13.0 | how can I be viral for the dumbest idea ever |
| 0:15.9 | and thinking, guess what? |
| 0:17.8 | I'm relevant. |
| 0:18.6 | They're talking about me and not realizing this is definitely |
| 0:22.9 | not the way of doing it, but maybe she thinks she is. So Joy Reid launches finger-jabbing rant |
| 0:28.6 | against Elvis and says, nickname Kim the King was racist. I don't even want to go through this. |
| 0:35.3 | Rob, do you want to just play this clip and let the audience see it? |
| 0:37.5 | Go for it. |
| 0:38.4 | They can't fix the history they did. |
| 0:41.0 | Their ancestors made this country into a slave hell. |
| 0:47.0 | But they can clean it up now because they got the Smithsonian. |
| 0:49.8 | They can get rid of all the slavery stuff. |
| 0:51.2 | They got Prager U. |
| 0:52.3 | They can lie about the history to the children. |
| 0:53.9 | They can't originally invent anything more than they ever were able to get rid of all the slavery stuff. They got Prager U that can lie about the history to the children. |
| 0:59.3 | They can't originally invent anything more than they ever were able to invent good music. |
| 1:04.6 | We black folk gave y'all country music, hip hop, R&B, jazz, rock and roll. |
| 1:10.0 | They couldn't even invent that, but they have to call a white man the king because they couldn't make rock and roll so they have to stamp |
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