This isn't really worthy of notice other than to point out that (1) attacking alleged mistreatment of a wife based on nothing more than your strong dislike of the husband is exactly what then candidate and now President Trump did to Khizr and Ghazala Khan and (2) if you are going to charge mistreatment you should talk to the alleged victim. That would seem to be Journalism 101. But Reid is not really a journalist.
@SenSanders Bernie Sanders.— Jeffrey Cawthorne (@zo7vette) November 29, 2017
Um... I get that he has a hardcore following, but his own attitudes toward women, from his weird early writings to his physical dismissal of women in his presence (including his own wife) make that an incredibly dubious prospect.— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) November 29, 2017
I didn't answer your biased reporting about Bernie during the last 2 years @JoyAnnReid. But don't ever use me to demean my husband. I am very happy & very proud to be Bernie's wife. Your perception couldn't be more wrong. Have you ever talked with him? You've never spoken w/me. https://t.co/SZG7uV8cfO— Jane O'Meara Sanders (@janeosanders) November 29, 2017
Reid has been wrong about quite a lot recently. She thought that Russia was still Communist, the Czech Republic was part of Yugoslavia and that Trump married "Soviet" women, among other gaffes. But everyone makes mistakes. None of us are perfect. My problem with Reid isn't that she makes mistakes or has different politics than Sanders. It's that she embodies a hectoring fact free self-righteousness that no matter where it comes from, is not good for American politics. Smearing someone as a sexist because he had the audacity to run and lose against Clinton is nonsensical. Doing so in today's environment is malevolent.