Sick of the damn GOP bias? CNN's Van Jones may finally be, too. Maybe this is becoming "A Thing"?

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16. Just watching her again this (Saturday) morning. She had on a Trump surrogate who was

African-American. He was a shameless apologist who ALSO tried to wiggle around and underneath her line of questioning, tried to change the subject, tried to deflect and divert and filibuster, tried to avoid the hot seat, tried to bob 'n' weave, tried to turn it back to "but Hillary Clinton ... " and she wouldn't let him get away with it, either. I couldn't grab a pen and paper fast enough to make a note of his name. She's done this again, and again, and again, and again. It seems to be a new skill that's becoming her hallmark. And it's BRILLIANT! It's FUCKING THRILLING to watch! Joy Reid is rapidly becoming my hero.

If I were her producer, I'd suggest maybe she consider adding ANOTHER weapon to her increasingly impressive arsenal of power-interview techniques: tell the obfuscater that if he/she continues to try to crowd her out vocally, tries to keep talking over her to get her to shut up and/or give up, tries to keep on filibustering and blocking and smoke-screening, that you will cut his/her mic. Message: Cooperate OR ELSE.

I'm starting to feel tempted to write a letter to NBC News/MSNBC Chairman Andrew Lack, suggesting that Joy Reid hold an in-house class on interviewing techniques. With mandatory attendance required of the likes of Chuck Todd and Andrea Mitchell. Yes. THEM. Them especially. I don't care what their professional "ranking" is or how long they've been in the business. They're way too smug and cozy and way too eager to let their subjects off easy and not force the issue. Maybe they're afraid of losing that precious "access" or something so they don't want to risk pissing anybody off. Well THERE'S one attitude that has to change, as we all learned the hard way during bush/cheney. And if the Trump campaign doesn't like it, and threatens to retaliate by yanking press credentials, SO BE IT. There are other ways to get the story and plenty of other voices crowded out, ignored, and denied exposure on these things who'd LOVE some face time for a change. And if your retaliation happens to enough news outlets, hey, pal, how'd ya like a NEWS BLACKOUT? How'd you like all that coverage and free publicity you've been getting for more than a year because we all fawn and bow and scrape and whore ourselves to you and hang on your every word - to disappear?