OLD POSTS ON BLOG DOG BRINGING NO JOY TO MSNBC’S REID
MSNBC’S JOY Reid, under fire for homophobic language in old blog posts, apologized Saturday for any past comments that belittled or mocked the LGBTQ community and says she hasn’t been able to verify her claim that her account was hacked.
Reid (left) opened her weekend show “AM Joy” by acknowledging that she has said “dumb” and “hurtful” things in the past. “The person I am now is not the person I was then,” she said.
But she was unable to explain blog posts from a decade ago that mocked gay people and individuals who were allegedly gay. Reid has denied posting them altogether but says security experts she hired who looked into whether she had been a hacking victim found no proof.
“I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things because they are completely alien to me. But I can definitely understand, based on things I have tweeted and have written in the past, why some people don’t believe me,” she said.