MSNBC host Joy Reid apologized for the controversy about her homophobic blog posts and disparaging statements toward Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) people. Based on the statement of NBC spokesperson, Reid has contacted law enforcement about the issue.
But, she still doesn't think she wrote the anti-gay posts from her blog in the 2000s and she admitted there is no solid evidence that her old blog "The Reid Report" had been hacked.
“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, have written in the past why some people don’t believe me,” she said at the top of her MSNBC show “AM Joy” on Saturday. “For that I am truly, truly sorry.”
Nevertheless, Politico reported: “Most straight people cringe at the sight of two men kissing,” one of the posts states. “The nature of political correctness is that gay people are allowed to say straight sex is gross, but the reverse is considered to be patently homophobic.”
Parts of the case made thus far by Reid, her lawyer and one of the cybersecurity consultants she hired -- that someone obtained her password for the blog and then made changes to it -- are plausible from a technological perspective.
The controversy regarding the case made thus far by Reid, her lawyer and one of the cybersecurity consultants she hired are plausible from a technological perspective.
It does not need any hack of an external site, like the Internet Archive, on which copies of the posts Reid disputes were once available.
According to CNN Media, a belief in several shifting and sometimes contradictory arguments are required-- despite evidence offered to the contrary by outlets like The Daily Beast -- and a belief that Reid was completely unaware of something going on right under her nose.
"I looked back on some of the ways I've talked casually about sexual gender and orientation and I wonder who that even was," Joy Reid said.
Reid added, "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."
On the other hand, the MSNBC host conceded that her team has not been able to look for any tampering as an evidence by outside parties just like what she had claimed earlier in the week. Concerning with this statement, according to BIZPAC REVIEW, this isn’t the first time Reid has been criticized for her public views on homosexuality. In 2007, she went after former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, writing, “Miss Charlie, Miss Charlie. Stop pretending, brother. It’s okay that you don’t go for the ladies.”
Predominantly, Reid herself has yet to save for a statement released at the beginning of the week in which she said that the posts were hacked even the disruptive hackers had fabricated the slurs but as time went on, her story became more convoluted and began to fall apart.