Joy Reid's new show has a name now, and it isn't either of my excellent suggestions, Reid: All About It or Joy, to the World. Still, she more than made up for that on Saturday morning's edition of AM Joy by absolutely destroying Republican strategist Genevieve Wood on the issue of North Carolina's anti-trans bathroom bill. It's a stunning example of what a journalist can do simply by giving five or ten seconds of thought to the arguments these bigots are putting forth.
Joy completely stumps Wood by asking a simple question that never occurs to the dozens of mainstream journalists who let this play out on the bigots' terms. As it turns out, Wood, like many Republicans, doesn't actually understand what's in the law, or that it actually forces women to go to the bathroom with men, and women to go into public bathrooms full of men:
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