AND THAT’S SAYING SOMETHING: MSNBC’s Joy Reid is the wrongest person on television.

If Joy Reid were your architect, the bedroom ceiling would fall on your head the first time the wind blew. If Joy Reid were your plumber, the contents of your toilet would come spewing out your shower head. If Joy Reid were a pilot, a firefighter, or a police officer, we would no longer be discussing her, except in the past tense.

But! Joy Reid is a television pundit, albeit one who toils for the hysterical conspiracy-theory factory known as MSNBC, and hence can never suffer any penalty for being factually inept: Hey, it’s only somebody talking. Did you make the mistake of assuming MSNBC was about accuracy?

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WHAT COULD GO WRONG? “Mental Health Experts and Crisis Workers,” Not NYPD, Will Respond to 911 Mental Health Calls as Part of Pilot Program.

OVER AT CHICAGOBOYZ, thoughts on my Welcome Wagon project.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Chili peppers might extend your life. Also, they’re delicious.

MAYBE BARRETT IS JUST AN HONEST JUDGE? Supreme Court Obamacare Arguments Eviscerate Dems’ Chicken Little Fears About  ACB.

Although I can understand why they’d find that hard to imagine.

GOOD: An ‘anti-woke’ coalition emerged in the 2020 elections.

SWORN AFFIDAVITS FROM NEVADA & MICHIGAN DETAIL VOTER FRAUD.

WHERE’S ALBERT SHANKER AND HIS NUCLEAR WARHEAD WHEN YOU NEED HIM? Downgrading grades, ‘celebrating all students.’

The bar keeps getting lower in New York City’s public schools, writes Erika Sanzi on Project Forever Free. It’s a game of hide the data.

Chancellor Richard Carranza’s new grading policy bars failing grades. Students will be marked “in progress” or “incomplete,” even if they’ve done no work at all, writes Sanzi.

Safetyism strikes again.

(Classical reference in headline.)

ANOTHER HOUSE PICKUP: GOP’s Steel wins California House race after Democrat Rouda concedes.

Related: GOP’s McClintock fends off challenger in California.

Republican Van Duyne wins race for Texas House seat. “Democrats had hoped Valenzuela would lead the way for a series of House pickups in Texas. Instead, they watched as targeted seats in the state flashed red on the election map.”

North Carolina called for Thom Tillis.

Trump had pretty good coattails for a guy who allegedly lost.

FUNNY HOW THESE ONLY HAPPEN IN ONE DIRECTION: Another Election Computer Glitch in Michigan Reversed as Republican Declared Belated Winner.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Manual 2020 Porsche 911 Carrera S Is the One to Get. I’ve been without a sports car for over half a decade now. Maybe I need to change that.

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THE WEEK IS YOUNG: MSNBC’s Joy Reid Just Made Her Most Embarrassing Gaffe Yet

OH: Yikes! State Department Precedent Qualifies This 2020 Election as ‘Rigged.’

REALCLEARPOLITICS: The Media Should Not Have ‘Called’ This Election.

Under the contentious circumstances of this election, the traditional media’s decision to declare a victor before the official process had run its course has diminished the confidence of Trump voters in the announced result. Even if the declaration of a Biden victory is found to be accurate, the call was premature, and it will make the effort to unify our nation far more difficult. . . .

Unity is much less likely, however, when the media simply declares a winner before the matter is resolved. In 2012, many Republicans felt disappointed when Mitt Romney lost to President Obama. Very few felt cheated. That will not be the case in 2020 if the current president’s supporters believe that the media preempted the official process so as to disparage or prevent a full investigation of the president’s claims.

The New York Times exacerbated this problem when it announced in an odd Election Day tweet, later withdrawn, that “the role of declaring the winner of a presidential election in the U.S. falls to the news media.” Of course, it does not. That responsibility falls on Congress. But that tweet told the president’s supporters all they needed to know about the media’s intent.

Indeed it did. Plus:

Voters who supported Trump have good reason to distrust the media. For months, traditional news outlets have been telling us that he would lose his bid for reelection in a landslide and that a “blue wave” would sweep the nation, turning control of Capitol Hill completely over to the Democrats.

Reporters – not just pundits, but ostensibly fair-minded “straight news” professionals – treated Biden’s decisive victory as a foregone conclusion, actively discouraging their readers and viewers from even considering the possibility of a second Trump term. The pollsters had “fixed” the flaws that plagued their results in 2016, we were told.

The election returns proved otherwise. Yet, these same outlets are now asking us to trust them as they declare that their favored candidate won the election.

The country would be much better off if the press could serve as trusted interlocutors. But to be trusted, one must be trustworthy.

OBAMA OFFICIAL BEN RHODES ADMITS BIDEN CAMP IS ALREADY WORKING WITH FOREIGN LEADERS: Exactly What Flynn Did.

Although the mid-2016 FBI investigation into Flynn’s possible corrupt connections to Moscow had been ordered closed for lack of evidence, the FBI manufactured a possible ground of criminality to justify its investigation of Flynn for this call: namely, possible violations of the Logan Act, a 150-year-old law that purports to criminalize attempts by a private citizen to conduct foreign policy at odds with official U.S. foreign policy which (a) has never been used to prosecute anyone; (b) is almost certainly unconstitutional; and (c) has been ignored — properly so — in countless more blatant cases, such as when then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi undermined Bush administration policy to isolate Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for helping Iraqi insurgents kill U.S. troops in Iraq by visiting Assad in 2007, infuriating the Bush White House and leading to frivolous calls from fringe right-wing voices for Pelosi’s prosecution under the Logan Act.

But Flynn’s ordinary call with the Russian ambassador became the pretext for further abuse of FBI and NSA powers as part of the security state’s ongoing efforts to interfere in the 2016 election and then sabotage the Trump administration before it even began. One way this corrupt agenda was carried out was by attempting to criminalize officials of the Trump campaign and then the new government with blatantly political motives.

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SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE (CONT’D): Teens’ mental health benefits with less screen time, more sports, art.

ROGER AILES LEFT THE BUILDING A LONG TIME AGO: Leaked Fox News Internal Ratings Show “Catastrophic” Loss of Audience.

Related: “Chris Stirewalt stacked his credibility into a large pile on Election Night, doused it in gasoline, and tossed a match at it. Any news organization that would employ Chris Stirewalt is not trustworthy.”

OUT: VOTER FRAUD DOESN’T EXIST.

IN: MASSIVE, WIDESPREAD VOTER FRAUD DOESN’T EXIST.

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Nuclear war could take a big bite out of the world’s seafood.

#HATEHOAX: 18-year-old accused of vandalizing own vehicle with racist, homophobic graffiti.

TYLER O’NEIL: 10 Reasons Pennsylvania’s Election Results May Be ‘Irredeemably Compromised.’

Tyler left out the 11th reason: Democrats.

AS OPPOSED TO TRUMP’S, WHICH WAS GOOD IN UNPREDICTABLE WAYS: Joe Biden’s Presidency Is Coming. It Will Be Bad In Predictable Ways.

THE RETURN OF THE TIME-TRAVELING HACKERS? Here’s the thing of the day: The obligatory “Tapper and every other sentient being school Joy Reid on meaning of 538” post.

Exit question from James Taranto: “Are you sure you’re not thinking of 420?“