MSNBC’s Joy Reid: Rand Paul’s Inability to Tell Clintons Apart ‘Insulting’ to Hillary

One of MSNBC’s two new daytime hosts, Joy Reid, appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews Monday and shared her thoughts on Senator Rand Paul’s recent suggestion that former President Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky should disqualify Democrats from talking about a “war on women.” Reid found Paul’s comments particularly “insulting” to Hillary Clinton.

She attempted to explain what is “wrong” with Paul’s apparent strategy of trying to steer the narrative so that “every time the media reports on another ‘war on women’ story” for “the next thought to be Bill Clinton.” For one, she said, “Clinton hatred as it regards Bill Clinton is a lot less potent than it was before.” But moreover, she added, Paul’s younger base “probably barely remember the Monica Lewinsky affair.”

“Trying to reeducate the public to Bill Clinton circa 1997-1998, just to me doesn’t really fit his brand,” Reid continued. “He is supposed to be the guy that attracts the young libertarians. Being the chief scold of Bill Clinton doesn’t strike me as the way to do it.”

On Paul’s apparent difficulty separating one Clinton from the other, Reid said, “It’s easy to tell them apart. She has had a completely separate and distinct career.” She asked, “Are you telling me that she is simply just an offshoot of Bill Clinton and that she should be judged by him? That’s insulting.”

Watch video below, via MSNBC:

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