The sports and political commentator is speaking out against MSNBC for ending relations with Joy Reid and other hosts in 'a purge so brutally racist'.

Former MSNBC Keith Olbermann said on his podcast that MSNBC's decision to let Joy Reid leave, in addition to canceling the shows of Ayman Mohyeldin, Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart and Alex Wagner, "reeks of 'we don't care if you think we are racists.

The former MSNBC anchor said the network “didn’t even try to hide the racism by firing an unnecessary white anchor.”

Trump-bashing leftist Keith Olbermann lashed out at his former employer MSNBC over what he described as a “racist purge” following the cancelation of Joy Reid’s primetime show. In a series of posts on X,

Keith Olbermann accused his former network MSNBC of a "racist purge" following the cancellation of Joy Reid's primetime show. The post Keith Olbermann Accuses MSNBC of ‘Racist Purge’ After Joy Reid’s Show Canceled: ‘Makes You Think It Was Done By Musk’ first appeared on Mediaite.

Former MSNBC star Keith Olbermann accuses network of racism for dropping Joy Reid - ‘MSNBC fired Joy Reid, and yes it is racist and maybe worse,’ Keith Olbermann said on Monday. ‘Yes, it is designed to keep out people who might think differently.

As MSNBC host Joy Ann Reid issued her final send-off on the ReidOut, her now former colleagues blasted the network for her "indefensible" firing. Reid hosted the show for five years. Prior to that, Reid was a weekend host of AM Joy from 2016 to 2020.

After all, an instant claim of identity-based moral superiority requires far less thought than say, making a persuasive argument. And behind their claim lies the unspoken-yet-clearly-implied assertion that only a bigot would disagree with them or refuse their demands.