MSNBC's Joy Reid to face libel suit after smearing Trump supporter on Twitter

MSNBC host, Joy Reid, has a 2019 defamation case revived against her on Wednesday. The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York mistakenly dismissed a suit by Roslyn La Liberte against the Reid last fall.

La Liberte, a Donald Trump supporter, filed the suit in 2019 over defamation claims against Reid, after the host posted misleading comments [aka lies] about the woman along with a photo of her and a young boy.

The photo along with Reid's comments were shared millions of times on Twitter. 

Reid attributed the notion that La Liberte, who appeared in a MAGA hat, was yelling at the Latino boy. In another post, Reid juxtaposed the image of La Liberte with a 1957 image of a white woman in Little Rock screaming angrily at a Black child trying to go to school. 

It was this last action that caused the court to reconsider, arguing that Reid is liable for what she insinuated on social media.

Last week MSNBC announced that the racist Reid would be hosting her own primetime show, "The ReidOut." This would make Reid one of the first black, homophobic, racist women to host a primetime show, and the first for the network.

The slot was formerly held by Hardball host Chris Matthews, who allegedly left the leftist network in early March after a number of inappropriate comments he made over the years, many having to do with women.

But Reid has her own history of controversy, and since she is black and therefore considered a member of the victim group, she has gotten away with it. In 2018, the overt homophobe passionately apologized to her far left viewers after a blog post floated to the surface like you know what in a pool. The post contained homophobic comments that included claims that Charles Crist, the former Florida governor, was a closeted gay man, and that Ann Coulter, a conservative at that time, looked like a man.

The ruling on Wednesday overturned the lower court dismissal which stated that La Liberte is a limited purpose public figure, something that would require a higher threshold to prove defamation. In other words, she just wasn't important enough to be defamed since, unlike Reid, she had none.

“Accordingly, she was not required to allege that Reid acted with actual malice as to either post,” the three-judge panel wrote this week. “Moreover, the court erred by characterizing Reid’s second post as nonactionable opinion … That post could be interpreted as accusing La Liberte of engaging in specific racist conduct, which is a provable assertion of fact and therefore actionable.”

The appellate court also ruled that the case could not be dismissed under California’s anti-SLAPP statute, a law that gives an individual the ability to file a motion to strike to dismiss a complaint brought against them for engaging in protected speech. The judges determined that the statue was “inapplicable” in federal court because “it increases a plaintiff’s burden to overcome pretrial dismissal.”

The appellate court agreed with another aspect of the district judge’s ruling — that Reid is not protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The act provides immunity to sites for content posted by third parties.

“To the contrary, she is the sole author of both allegedly defamatory posts,” the judges wrote. 

Reid and her spokespeople had nothing to say.

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MSNBC racist Joy Reid sued by Trump supporter for defamation

MSNBC leftist host and alleged white folks hater Joy Reid is finally being sued. A California woman is suing Reid's angry butt for falsely accusing her on social media of screaming racial slurs at a 14-year-old boy because she is a Trump supporter.

Roslyn La Liberte, who wore a red "Make America Great Again" cap when the incident occurred, filed the lawsuit in Eastern District Court of New York on Tuesday, claiming that Reid "used her substantial social media presence, fame, and reputation as a hard-hitting journalist" to inform her Twitter followers that La Liberte "screamed abhorrent racial slurs" at a 14-year-old boy, Joseph Luevanos.

At a city council meeting at Simi Valley, Calif., a photo went viral last June when it seemed as if La Liberte was involved in a heated conversation with the boy in question.

According to La Liberte, Reid sent a bunch of tweets claiming the viral photo showed the Trump supporter screaming in the face of the boy and Reid then retweeted to her myriad followers that La Liberte "needs to be put on blast."

The suit claims Reid falsely tweeted that La Liberte showed up "to a rally" and "screamed" that Luevanos is "going to be the first deported," and called the child a "dirty Mexican" in the confrontation.

The suit states that Reid wasn't present at the event [the City Council meeting], not a political "rally," and that she "made up out of whole cloth the accusation that La Liberte screamed racial slurs."

To MSNBC, that's tough-fisted journalism, but to the rest of us, it's fake news.

Interestingly, the boy in the photo, Joseph Luevanos, told a local Fox affiliate that the conversation he and La Liberte had was civil and that La Liberte doesn't deserve to be harassed as a result of the viral photo.

The conversation was actually captured on video [see below] and does not coincide with Reid's claim that La Liberte yelled racial slurs or mistreated the boy in any way.

"A few days later and despite the fact that the young man previously and publicly denied Reid's account of events, Reid openly compared La Liberte's alleged conduct to racism during the Jim Crow era, stating, in part that "History sometimes repeats. And it is full of rage,'" the suit claims.

The lawsuit claims that Reid "made up" the allegation that La Liberte screamed racial slurs at the boy--resulting in an onslaught of hateful and threatening messages aimed at La Liberte.

"Reid's accusation that La Liberte screamed racial slurs at the boy in the photograph are false," the suit states. "Reid set out to destroy La Liberte because she disagrees with La Libete's MAGA hat and the beliefs Reid ascribes to those wearing that hat conflict with her ideology."

La Liberte is seeking at least $75,000 in damages. MSNBC is not named as a defendant in the suit.

"Reid has a demonstrable, extreme, and well-publicized bias against President Donald Trump, his supporters, and the Republican Party. Reid has been described as the 'heroine of the resistance to President Trump's leadership," the lawsuit states.

The lawsuit also states that Reid, like so many leftists, deleted the posts after being reached by Liberte's counsel. She has nothing to hide, eh?

"It appears I got this wrong. My apologies to Mrs. La Liberte and Joseph," the leftist Reid tweeted.

So how could she have possibly gotten it wrong?

She wasn't there and she did nothing to corroborate her words. She wanted it to be true, so part of her may have believed it without any evidence. That's how leftists/liberals/progressives/socialists think.

It felt true. It felt believable.

But even her feeble retraction was garbage. It was evasive and equivocal. She never said that "this" is and what she got "wrong." She even used the word 'appear' to avoid honesty to the truth.

At the start of this year, Reid had posted homophobic and other hateful posts on her blog before she became famous. She claimed [aka lied] that her blog was hacked and that she never wrote such things. But in April, she got all misty and snot-seeping on air admitting it seemed unlikely she was hacked, but claimed she didn't recall writing such hateful crap. But she apologized anyway.

Because she wrote the hateful crap and she knows it.

She's as convincing as Hillary Clinton saying that all women accusers are to be believed.


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