‘Bad Mistake’: Rachel Maddow Uses MSNBC’s Airwaves To Bash Network For Canceling Joy Reid’s Show

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow tore into the left-leaning corporate network Monday during her show over the firing of host Joy Reid and the demotion of Alex Wagner.

The network announced that shows with Reid and Wagner would be canceled as part of an effort to re-tool its lineup, also nixing weekend shows hosted by Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart and Ayman Mohyeldin. Maddow, who earlier appeared on Reid’s final show Monday, confirmed former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki would take over Wagner’s timeslot.

“She is leaving the network altogether and that is very, very, very hard to take. I am 51 years old,” Maddow said. “I have been gainfully employed since I was 12 and I have had so many different kinds of jobs, you wouldn’t believe me if I told you. But in all of the jobs I have had in all of the years I have been alive, there is no colleague for whom I have had more affection and more respect than Joy Reid.”

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“I love everything about her. I have learned so much from her. I have so much more to learn from her,’ Maddow continued. “I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC, and personally, I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door. It is not my call and I understand that. But that’s what I think.”

Comcast is spinning off MSNBC, CNBC, USA, E!, Oxygen, SyFy and other news and entertainment channels after MSNBC ratings fell by over 50% following the