Posted on 04/29/2018 8:16:13 AM PDT by Signalman
The host says she doesn't think she wrote the posts, but admits they don't seem to have been hacked. On Saturday morning, five days after Joy Reid was accused of authoring a series of homophobic blog posts that were unearthed by a Twitter user, the MSNBC host apologized for the controversy, but said that she still doesn't think she wrote the posts in question.
"Here's what I know: I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things," she said on AM Joy. "But I can definitely understand, based on things I have said and have written in the past, that some people don't believe me."
On Monday, when Mediaite asked Reid about the blog posts, she said, "An unknown, external party accessed and manipulated material from my now-defunct blog." On Wednesday night, her lawyer confirmed that the FBI was investigating "potential criminal activities surrounding several online accounts" belonging to Reid.
But, on Saturday, Reid admitted that the posts don't appear to have been the result of hacking or tampering.
"When a friend found them in December and sent them to me, I was stunned," she said. "Frankly, I couldn't imagine where they'd come from or whose voice this was. The reality is they have not been able to prove it."
To further get across the message, Reid convened a panel of gay-rights advocates to discuss the controversy.
While she didn't take credit for the blog posts, she admitted that she's written and tweeted hurtful, anti-gay things in the past, and she pledged to do better. "I looked back on some of the ways I've talked casually about sexual gender and orientation, and I wonder who that even was," she said.
Reid continued: "I'm heartbroken that I didn't do better back then. The reality is I have to own the things I've written and tweeted and said."
Now that Reid has admitted that she doesn't appear to have been hacked, it's unclear what will happen to the FBI investigation into the matter.
We do...
Lol. She doesn’t believe she wrote what she wrote. :) see the thing is any writer’s Style can be pretty easily picked out after reading pages and pages of their “work”. I bet it’s pretty obvious to anyone who knows her style that she wrote them.
Well, what did she say exactly?
Not one snippet?
Suspicious
Translated: “Even I can’t believe what an @hole I am...”
I love to see a liberal in misery!!!
And Elizabeth Warren totally “believes” she is an Indian. Doesn’t make it so, however.
All this bluster about her hateful words or anti gay screeds, but not one example or even an excerpt?
She’s already admitted it.
I’ve had a week when I have’t kept up with the news, so this is my first information about the controversy. Did anybody relate what was in the posts?
Sure. Leftists need to be held to the same standard as normal people. She’s guilty.
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Pathological Liars genuinely believe their lies, it is called mental illness. I pity her.
Translated: oh, sh!t it might be fired. Gotta figure out a way to get out of this bind. BTW, I really do believe what I wrote back then.
Reid oughta smarten up.
It’s not what she believes that counts ....it’s what the rest of us believe about her.
So she doesn’t “identify” with them.
She needs to up her Geodon dose.
Liar.
Like all liberals, she can’t face reality, even the reality of her actions.
Let’s see:
Weiner I was hacked.
DNC we were hacked.
Hillary I was hacked.
Reid I was hacked.
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