Joy Reid has struck out. When word first leaked out that a decade ago Reid had posted a long series of posts on her blog filled with anti-gay slurs, Reid's response was to claim she had been hacked. NBC, which owns the network on which her show appears (MSNBC), backed her up and even arranged for the FBI to investigate the supposed hacking. That was a crazy defense, to put it mildly. At the time Reid was supposedly hacked, she was an unknown with a blog. There would be no reason for someone to hack her site back then. The killer for her "defense" came when the Reid blog posts turned up in the Library of Congress clocked in during 2006. That means that either someone back in 2006 or earlier hacked her (extremely unlikely) or her defense was total BS. It's not much of a choice, so even Reid is now admitting that her site wasn't hacked. She said that on her show this morning. Still, undaunted, Reid claimed that she doesn't really know who wrote the anti-gay posts; she just doesn't believe it was her.
This has to be the weakest defense to obvious guilt since O.J. Simpson. Of course, O.J. got off when the jury acquitted him. Maybe Reid's audience will forgive her obvious duplicity and homophobia. Maybe they will forgive her praise of Donald Trump while she dumped on Rosie O'Donnell. Maybe, but given the nature of Reid's audience, doubtful.
I do suggest to Reid, if she survives this mess, that she remember these events. When a situation arises like this she should be more forgiving. For example, in 2002 while running for the State Legislature in Louisiana, Steve Scalise spoke to a group that turned out to have ties to white supremacists. Scalise says he didn't really know who they were. He hasn't done anything like that since, but Reid always talks about him as an avowed white supremacist and cites this speech. By her standards, her blog posts which could hardly be inadvertent make her homophobic and hateful. She should be banned from the air under her logic. Maybe she could keep that in mind.
Oh, who am I kidding. Joy Reid will never be fair to any conservative or Republican.
This has to be the weakest defense to obvious guilt since O.J. Simpson. Of course, O.J. got off when the jury acquitted him. Maybe Reid's audience will forgive her obvious duplicity and homophobia. Maybe they will forgive her praise of Donald Trump while she dumped on Rosie O'Donnell. Maybe, but given the nature of Reid's audience, doubtful.
I do suggest to Reid, if she survives this mess, that she remember these events. When a situation arises like this she should be more forgiving. For example, in 2002 while running for the State Legislature in Louisiana, Steve Scalise spoke to a group that turned out to have ties to white supremacists. Scalise says he didn't really know who they were. He hasn't done anything like that since, but Reid always talks about him as an avowed white supremacist and cites this speech. By her standards, her blog posts which could hardly be inadvertent make her homophobic and hateful. She should be banned from the air under her logic. Maybe she could keep that in mind.
Oh, who am I kidding. Joy Reid will never be fair to any conservative or Republican.
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