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

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• MSNBC’S JOY REID JTIFI OFFENSIVE ANTI-GAY WRGS IN APOLOGY, ‘SOUTH PARK’ DID IT
• MSNBC’S JOY REID APOLOGIZ FOR PAST COMMENTS ABOUT GAYS: ‘DISAPPOTED MYSELF’
• 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
• BUSTED: JOY REID’S DISTURBG ANTI-GAY POSTS ARCHIVED THE LIBRARY OF CONGRS

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

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.

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.

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

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. 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. 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.

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

”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. 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. ”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.

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

” (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.

— 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. 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. In her statement Sunday, Reid said Crist’s “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.

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.