I watched her show this morning, and it made me uncomfortable. It was a pantomime of honesty. She said her expert could not prove she was hacked, but the truth is she initially claimed her expert had proven she was hacked, and other experts poked holes in that conclusion (she did not acknowledge or address this). She invited a bunch of LGBT advocates on the panel to challenge and grill her, but none did, and were clearly all chosen because they were on her side (it is not hard to find LGBT advocates who have not been on her side, so that was not random). Nobody even pushed a little bit on the wired “I can’t believe I wrote that “ position she landed on.
even fucking Howie Kurtz, who we were just discussing recently, had the dood sense to have an independent host take over his show when the subject was his own poor handling of an LGBT related issue. Reid would have been much better served to get someone from the community who writes for The Daily Beast (where Reid writes too, and which has been pretty suspicious of her story) and get a medium- well scorching. The pity is it would have been relatively easy for her to just say something like: “I don’t remember writing these horrible things, but I can’t say I didn’t, and that’s the problem. Whether I wrote them or not they are consistent with the my beliefs and attitudes at the time. A decade ago I was a liberal artist who grew up in a conservative African -American church and family, and I was homophobic. I have changed a lot in those ten years, and have seen that my vies about LGBT people then were as reprehensible as those of the worst racists towards Black people. I was too slow to learn, and I continue to need to learn more, but I am committed to doing whatever I can every day for the rest of my life to fight for justice for all.” If she said something like that the issue melts away for all but the Fox News crowd. https://www.thedailybeast.com/joy-reid-apologizes-for-homophobic-posts-she-doesnt-remember-writing?ref=scroll On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 9:31 AM Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > MSNBC's Joy Reid apologizes for 'hurtful' comments > > By MARK KENNEDY > AP Entertainment Writer > NEW YORK (AP) - MSNBC's Joy Reid, under fire for homophobic language in > old blog posts, has apologized 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 opened her weekend show "AM Joy" on Saturday by acknowledging has > said "dumb" and "hurtful" things in the past. "The person I am now is not > the person I was then," she said. > She's 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 a security expert who > looked into whether she had been a hacking victim found no proof. She says > he "had no idea where they came from." > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 7:25 PM, Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Joy Reid said she was hacked. Outrage from the LGBT community. >> LINK >> <https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/25/joy-reid-anti-gay-posts-550213> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
