Posted on 04/23/2018 9:02:55 AM PDT by simpson96
Mediaite has obtained a series of homophobic posts from Joy Ann Reid’s old blog that she denies were actually written by her.
In an exclusive statement to Mediaite, the MSNBC host claims these posts from The Reid Report — which include defending homophobia, gay jokes, and the outright mocking of gay people and homosexuality — were somehow put in by an “external party” that “manipulated material from my now-defunct blog.”
While Reid apologized in December for writing homophobic content on a blog she ran long before her days as an icon of the #Resistance movement, she claims these new posts opposing gay marriage and cringing “at the sight of two men kissing” were part of a “fabricated” outside effort to paint her as “offensive and hateful.”
These anti-gay articles from The Reid Report, a site that pre-dated Reid’s former MSNBC show of the same name, were originally shared on Twitter by user Jamie_Maz who found them using the Wayback Machine — an Internet archiving service that takes periodic screenshots of popular web pages to preserve them.
While the amateur sleuth provided Mediaite with legitimate links to all of the posts they tweeted screenshots of, neither the actual defunct site nor its archived pages are currently accessible, as their Wayback Machine links mysteriously disappeared in December after Mediaite‘s initial story on Reid’s homophobic comments about Florida Congressman Charlie Crist was published. The Wayback Machine did not respond to an inquiry regarding the removal of Reid’s blog.
Reid’s statement to Mediaite claims that these allegedly hacked posts do “not represent the original entries” on her site:(snip)
(Excerpt) Read more at mediaite.com ...
The most honest words to come out of her ever.
I can’t really explain it, but when I go into a fabric store, my inner fag struggles to get out.
I know! She lied to her own blog!
I went to Williams-Sonoma yesterday and felt a little... you know...
What would she say if a Republican was in thI s situation? Bet she wouldn’t believe them.
Yeah, when you get a little to absorbed by color and fabric combinations...
The Russians did it, right Joy? Who else could it be?
Russians!
Is that you Anthony Weiner?
ROFLMAO
Bigot... anything else I would say would be grounds for zotting...
...fabricated by HER. What a homo-hating nitwit.
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