By Kristine Parks, Fox NewsNY Post (July 17, 2025)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/17/media/joy-reid-accuses-cheap-piers-morgan-of-ambushing-her-in-new-interview/Before the contentious interview was set to air on Thursday afternoon, Reid went on the offensive, accusing Morgan of “luring” her onto his show under the false premise that they would discuss her new YouTube show and the politics of the day.
Instead, she said, his team had compiled pre-edited clips, dredged up past controversies, and confronted her with accusations that she was a race baiter...
While she said she didn’t expect Morgan to strictly stay on those topics, she also didn’t expect the host to bring up her controversial blog posts from over 15 years ago or to ask her to respond in real-time to a conservative commentator who allegedly accused her of stoking racial hatred while she was at MSNBC.
Reid viewed the interview as a racial attack.
“This was pre-planned because they had edited pieces ready for it,” she said. “He never misses an opportunity to play gotcha with Black guests on his podcast, whom he, like other right-wing podcasters, use as fodder to keep their very White audiences angry and paranoid and clicking.”
In 2017, Reid’s resurfaced blog posts from 2007-2009 containing offensive homophobic remarks and anti-gay jokes made headlines.
Reid apologized at the time, although she also claimed hackers had placed the offending remarks on her old blog but later admitted she had no evidence that happened...
Reid claimed Morgan was “obsessed” with race and that he was forced out of his “Good Morning Britain” television gig over his “relentless, endless obsessive hatred of Megan Markle.”
Morgan responded to Reid’s claims on X.
“BREAKING: I interviewed Joy Reid last night. It did not go well… for Joy Reid. In fact, it went so badly for her that she’s already gone public about how terrible it was, and I am. Apparently, I’m obsessed with race & identity politics,” he said with a laughing emoji.Morgan’s representatives referred Fox News Digital to his social media comments and said he would address the controversy on his upcoming show...
