Joy Reid apologiz for 'hurtful' LGBT ments, don't 'believe' she wrote anti-gay posts - POLITICO

Contents:

• JOY REID SNDAL: MSNBC ACCED OF HYPOCRISY AS EVINCE OF LYG ABOUT ANTI-GAY SLURS PIL UP
• MSNBC’S JOY REID APOLOGIZ FOR PAST COMMENTS ABOUT GAYS: ‘DISAPPOTED MYSELF’
• MSNBC’S JOY REID JTIFI OFFENSIVE ANTI-GAY WRGS IN APOLOGY, ‘SOUTH PARK’ DID IT
• NBC NEWS’S HOMOPHOBE: 11 TIM JOY REID BASHED GAYS
• MSNBC HOST JOY REID BLAM HACKERS FOR ANTI-GAY BLOG POSTS, BUT QUTNS MOUNT

JOY REID SNDAL: MSNBC ACCED OF HYPOCRISY AS EVINCE OF LYG ABOUT ANTI-GAY SLURS PIL UP

Joy-Ann Reid on Saturday apologized for her past “hurtful” remarks about LGBTQ people, followg the rurfacg of homophobic blog posts om the mid-to-late 2000s. The host of MSNBC’s weekend show AM Joy has been unr fire for newly unvered blog posts published on Reid’s now-funct blog, the Reid Report, the mid-to late 2000s that repeatedly mocked gay people and specific dividuals who were allegedly gay.

The posts, for example, suggted — whout much, if any, evince — that Tom Cise, Karl Rove, and Chief Jtice John Robert’s son are gay. Other posts ma rogatory remarks about gay people, claimg that “most straight people crge at the sight of two men kissg” and that “adult gay men tend to be attracted to very young, post-pubcent typ.

1/x From 2007 to 2009 @joyannreid thored a dozen homophobic posts not only attemptg to out Charlie Crist as gay, she attacked & mocked him for beg repeatedly referred to him as "Miss Charlie" and tagged posts about him unr "gay policians.

MSNBC’S JOY REID APOLOGIZ FOR PAST COMMENTS ABOUT GAYS: ‘DISAPPOTED MYSELF’

On April 18, @Jamie_Maz followed on that first disvery wh a much bigger reveal — one that, acrdg to @Jamie_Maz, showed “Joy Reid’s homophobic blog posts were far worse than 1st reported. A few of the posts didn’t appear to actually acce people of beg gay, but stead ed homosexualy as a punchle and sult to cricize polil figur and punds:. 5/x Joy said Tim Hardaway’s ments about gay teammat were stupid for a public figure to make, but says there is a veat – She says part of the trsic nature of straightns is that gay sex is gross, that most straight people feel that way.

In Reid’s fense, Nichols poted to the lack of ments the homophobic posts as evince that the blog was hacked — bee “[i]f those posts were real, they would have undoubtedly eliced rpons om Ms.

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MSNBC’S JOY REID JTIFI OFFENSIVE ANTI-GAY WRGS IN APOLOGY, ‘SOUTH PARK’ DID IT

The progrsive host’s alleged past posts om a funct personal blog, which nta language cril of gay marriage and claims homosexual men prey on “imprsnable teens, ” led to a social-media backlash agast the host, who hired cybersecury experts to vtigate whether the blog archiv had been manipulated. Attributg her past statements to her prev “nservative views on LGBT issu, ” Reid said that some of her close iends growg up later me out as gay but were ially hant to tell her based on how she might react. Rellg a iend om llege, Reid said he told her that he was gay, to which she remembers havg a “knee-jerk reactn” that was “so disappotg to the women he uld have married.

They me out of the mouths of self-proclaimed alli of the gay muny, wh no awarens of how hurtful they were a mental health therapist, many of my experienc wh progrsiv and our gay hierarchy have occurred among lleagu. On at least two ocsns, I had lleagu suate that our straight male therapist was secretly gay, bee he worked our practice and felt a passn to help the LGBTQ muny as well.

MSNBC and NBC News are facg accatns of hypocrisy for appearg to stand behd star Joy Ann Reid, even after the embattled news star kda-sorta admted wrg homophobic slurs that she’d prevly sisted were the work of diabolil hackers. " — Conservative mentator Carme Sabia Comments dug up by a Twter er and published by Mediae showed that Reid wrote numero offensive jok and ments several years ago about gay people on her now funct blog, “The Reid Report. ”Inially, Reid apologized profely for offensive ments she ma roughly a ago suggtg that Florida Governor Charlie Crist (“Miss Charlie, ” as she lled him) may be gay, spe no evince to back up her ntentn.

NBC NEWS’S HOMOPHOBE: 11 TIM JOY REID BASHED GAYS

But when a new raft of offensive ments surfaced ‒ about some lbians' short haircuts and her objectns to seeg men kiss men, among other homophobic remarks ‒ Reid origally claimed she’d been hacked, and MSNBC circulated a much-panned statement om a puter hackg “expert” which sought to make that se. "“Li, li and more li, ” an NBC sir told Fox News, referrg to Reid’s after her Saturday remarks, Reid was showered wh support om her fellow liberals and MSNBC lleagu, cludg by the most powerful person at MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, who is openly gay:“Bras, guts, heart and soul — beloved Joy Reid has always been a treasured and brilliant lleague, but I've never been prour to work wh her than I am now, ” Maddow tweeted.

NewsBters managg edor Curtis Houck predicted to Fox News that bee Reid is a “liberal darlg, ” MSNBC will ntue to fend her, spe her shockgly homophobic remarks, as long as she ph the work’s anti-Tmp viewpots.

" — Mediae lumnist Joseph Wulfsohn “If a nservative ma those same homophobic blogs years ago that had rurfaced and then lied about hackers fabritg them, there's not a doubt that Joy Reid and her lleagu at MSNBC would shame them until their reers were stroyed, ” he told Fox many media watchdogs outsi of NBC’s echo chamber thk Reid’s double standard hurts the credibily of journalists as a whole, her employer appears to be givg the liberal star a pass for both her offensive ments and apparently lyg about them.

MSNBC HOST JOY REID BLAM HACKERS FOR ANTI-GAY BLOG POSTS, BUT QUTNS MOUNT

Fox News senr judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolano said Reid “uld be very ser trouble” wh law enforcement if she ma up the story about hackers plantg the anti-gay blog may be a bd regardg Reid as NBC News ralli around Tom Brokaw, who was recently acced of givg an unwanted kiss to then-NBC rrponnt Lda Vter the 1990s. MSNBC host Joy Reid apologized for blog posts she wrote om 2007 to 2009 that ed language cricized as homophobic to mock former Florida Gov.

Reid also joked about the possibily of Crist and McCa havg sex, about what she lled Crist’s “gay weddg, ” and about his honeymoon.