MSNBC Features Ex-Obama Aide Bashing ‘Crazy,’ ‘Loopy’ Bachmann, Defends Newsweek Cover
MSNBC contributor Joy-Ann Reid on Tuesday defended a controversial Michele Bachmann Newsweek cover, justifying that the Republican presidential candidate deserved it because she occasionally has the “crazy-eyes look.” Martin Bashir Guest host Jonathan Capehart didn't identify that Reid, the managing editor of TheGrio.com , is also a former press aide to Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. Reid absolved the controversial cover: “We have, sort of, the loopy things she's said. So, I think, in a way, it captures the persona that Michele Bachmann has kind of embodied, sort of the wild Tea Party lady .” Reid seemed to go back and forth on the appropriateness of the cover photo. She admitted, “But, as a photo, as a woman, I would have hated that photo. I mean, it was not a great, flattering photo.”
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