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

Contents:

• MSNBC’S JOY REID JTIFI OFFENSIVE ANTI-GAY WRGS IN APOLOGY, ‘SOUTH PARK’ DID IT
• MSNBC HOST JOY REID BLAM HACKERS FOR ANTI-GAY BLOG POSTS, BUT QUTNS MOUNT
• MORE JOY REID ANTI-GAY WRGS DISVERED — MSNBC HOST CLAIMS SE WAS HACKED
• BUSTED: JOY REID’S DISTURBG ANTI-GAY POSTS ARCHIVED THE LIBRARY OF CONGRS
• MSNBC HOST JOY REID MA CRASS ANTI-GAY JOK ON HER NOW-DEFUNCT BLOG
• JOY REID SNDAL: MSNBC ACCED OF HYPOCRISY AS EVINCE OF LYG ABOUT ANTI-GAY SLURS PIL UP
• MSNBC HOST JOY REID TARGETS CRIST WH ANTI-GAY MENTS OLD BLOG POSTS
• WHEN JOY REID WAS AN ANTI-GAY WCH HUNTER

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

MSNBC’s Joy Ann Reid issued a weak apology after recently unearthed blog posts wrten by Reid om a ago were found on an ter archive webse on Saturday that showed “homophobic nspiraci and anti-gay jok. ”Reid, 48, was the edor of the polil The Reid Report, where she wrote at least a dozen blog posts om 2007 through 2009 that ntaed offensive anti-gay remarks.

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

The rants clud llg Crist “Miss Charlie” and sarstilly g the tags “gay policians” and “not gay policians” — spe the fact that the twice-married, heterosexual man has never e-out as went on to spread the crackpot nspiracy theory that Crist was actually a closeted gay man who refed to e out for fear that his sexual orientatn would hurt his polil reer.

) Among the equent subjects of my posts was then-ernor Charlie Crist, at the time a nservative Republin, whose posns on issu like gay marriage and adoptn by same-sex upl Florida shared headl wh wily mored reports that he was hidg his sexual orientatn. Those reports were the subject of lots of scty: by LGBTQ bloggers, wrers and journalists, nservative blogs, a ntroversial documentary film lled “Outrage, ” and even by the edic wrers at South further apologized for her “sensive, tone-af and dumb” ments by sayg she regrets the way she mocked the issue of a potential homosexual person beg the “closet.

MORE JOY REID ANTI-GAY WRGS DISVERED — MSNBC HOST CLAIMS SE WAS HACKED

”The unearthed blog posts were first reported by Paste Magaze, which disvered them when a Twter acunt posted the alleged old wrgs belongg to Reid the followg thread: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.

” (thread) — Jam M (@Jamie_Maz) November 30, 20172/x Joy nstantly refers to Crist mockgly as “Miss Charlie” and suat that his marriage is a d to ver up his beg gay. — Jam M (@Jamie_Maz) November 30, 20173/x She mak a joke about John McCa “tappg” Crist, says Crist spent his honeymoon oglg male waers and thkg about how he didn’t want to see his wife naked, and mocked Crist’s big gay weddg. — Jam M (@Jamie_Maz) November 30, 20176/x Joy wr a post on Crist unr the tag “not gay policians” and shar her awful opns on gay men who get married.

BUSTED: JOY REID’S DISTURBG ANTI-GAY POSTS ARCHIVED THE LIBRARY OF CONGRS

— Jam M (@Jamie_Maz) November 30, 20178/x Joy nstantly refers to Crist mockgly as “Miss Charlie” and suat that his marriage is a d to ver up his beg gay. 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.

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. 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.

MSNBC HOST JOY REID MA CRASS ANTI-GAY JOK ON HER NOW-DEFUNCT BLOG

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.

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

All of that is to lay the ntext of why a lot of people were so quick to go after Reid once the latt allegatns of homophobia me out: In a lot of circl on the left and right, she had a lot of crics beforehand. "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 so, " @Jamie_Maz wrote the first of a seri of tweets about Twter er noted Reid repeatedly referred to Crist as "Miss Charlie" her posts and speculated that his 2008 marriage to a woman was a d and part of a “veep marketg strategy. "Among the equent subjects of my posts was then-ernor Charlie Crist, at the time a nservative Republin, whose posns on issu like gay marriage and adoptn by same-sex upl Florida shared headl wh wily mored reports that he was hidg his sexual orientatn, " Reid wrote her apology.

AdvertisementSKIP Kotsky/Getty ImagApril 24, 2018Back December, after a seri of homophobic posts on her funct, -old blog rurfaced on social media, the MSNBC host Joy Reid apologized for them.

Reid was nonted wh a new batch of homophobic wrgs om that same perd, she said she had been the victim of claim was lled to qutn on Tuday, when the Inter Archive, the meticulo onle rerd-keepg nonprof that hosted the archived versn of her se, said had found no evince to support her Tuday night, MSNBC provid documents that show Ms.

MSNBC HOST JOY REID TARGETS CRIST WH ANTI-GAY MENTS OLD BLOG POSTS

Reid, cludg exprsns of disgt at the thought of homosexualy, opposn to gay marriage, claims that gay men prey on “imprsnable teens” and cricism of polil rrectns. It nclud: “The nature of polil rrectns is that gay people are allowed to say straight sex is gross but the reverse is nsired to be patently homophobic. ”One of the posts also criciz Rachel Maddow, who is now the most-watched host on MSNBC, as beg “at the left-most end of the polil spectm” when to gay rights.

Joy Reid’s old blog, The Reid Report (2000-2014), is ltered wh even more anti-gay posts than were origally disvered, reports the far-left blog Mediae. Earlier this year, Reid admted to thorg a number of posts on her old se that mercilsly ridiculed then-Republin Florida Governor Charlie Crist as a homosexual (even after he married a woman).

Reid was clearly g homosexualy as a pejorative, as a weapon of ridicule, so the left-wg MSNBC anchor’s homophobia has already been well- tablished.

WHEN JOY REID WAS AN ANTI-GAY WCH HUNTER

Keepg real … most straight men feel exactly the same way, and would have the exact same reactn to the ia of strippg naked a sweaty locker room close quarters wh a gay teammate.

But part of the trsic nature of “Straightns” is that the ia of homosexual sex is … well … gross … even if you thk that gay people are perfectly lovely dividuals. For the rerd I’m sure gay people thk straight sex is gross, too, ’s the that the nature of polil rrectns is that gay people are allowed to say straight sex is gross but the reverse is nsired to be patently homophobic. “Some people e the [word] ‘immoral’ when they really mean ‘distasteful’ — I thk a lot of heterosexuals, pecially men, fd the ia of homosexual sex to be … well … gross, and they lump wh immoraly.