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.
I believe her. She does not believe she wrote them. But that is not because she did not write them - she did. Instead, it is because she is a sociopath.
Well, then, that’s good enough for us. If it worked for hillary more than 30 times, why should you get anything different?
Anyone who did not write them would state they did not write them. Not use I do not BELIEVE I wrote them.
*sniff*....
Joy Reid:
“I’m heartbroken that I got caught. They really NAILED me.”
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3651102/posts duplicate, 58 replies That was posted nearly 24 hours earlier.
No one cares if it was posted before. We don't all read the forum 24 hours a day.
Bingo!
You musta missed the first line of my reply. Where I wrote,
“Related posts:”
Search: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?s=reid&ok=Search&q=quick&m=any&o=time
...which made your intent perfectly clear.
Thanks for lying to my face. I won't forget it.
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