MSNBC’s Reid can’t prove hackers wrote ‘hurtful’ posts
NEW YORK >> 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 said she hasn’t been able to verify her claim that her account was hacked.
Reid opened her weekend show
“AM Joy” by acknowledging 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 said 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.
The posts that came to light in December were written for “The Reid Report,” her blog when she was covering Florida politics a decade ago.
In posts, she refers to then-Florida Gov. Charlie Crist as “Miss Charlie” and suggested he was “ogling the male waiters” on his honeymoon after marrying his wife, whom he has since divorced.