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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 30 april 2018
MSNBC’s Joy Reid can’t prove hackers wrote ‘hurtful’ posts

By MARK KENNEDY I wrote those hateful things remarks were “insensitive,
AP Entertainment Writer because they are com- tone deaf and dumb.” On
NEW YORK (AP) — MS- pletely alien to me. But I Saturday, she apologized
NBC’s Joy Reid, under fire can definitely understand, also to Ann Coulter for using
for homophobic language based on things I have transgender stereotypes to
in old blog posts, apolo- tweeted and have writ- describe the conservative
gized Saturday for any past ten in the past, why some commentator.
comments that belittled or people don’t believe me,” This week, Mediaite re-
mocked the LGBTQ com- she said. “I have not been vealed a set of other sup-
munity and says she hasn’t exempt for being dumb or posed blog posts. In one
been able to verify her cruel or hurtful to the very of these posts, Reid sup-
claim that her account was people I want to advo- posedly notes that “most
hacked. cate for. I own that. I get straight people cringe at
Reid opened her weekend it. And for that I am truly, the sight of two men kiss-
show “AM Joy” by acknowl- truly sorry.” The posts that ing” and that she couldn’t
edging has said “dumb” came to light in December see the movie “Brokeback
and “hurtful” things in the were written for “The Reid Mountain” because she
past. “The person I am Report,” her blog when she didn’t want to watch two
now is not the person I was was covering Florida poli- male characters having In this April 20, 2018 file photo, Joy Reid attends the Tribeca TV
then,” she said. tics a decade ago. In posts, sex. Another post says that screening of “Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story” during the
But she was unable to ex- she refers to then-Florida a lot of heterosexuals find 2018 Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
plain blog posts from a Gov. Charlie Crist as “Miss the idea of homosexual sex Associated Press
decade ago that mocked Charlie” and suggested he to be gross and that there reiterated that on Saturday who that even was. But the
gay people and individuals was “ogling the male wait- are concerns that gay but acknowledged she has reality, like a lot of people
who were allegedly gay. ers” on his honeymoon af- men tend to be attracted made hateful comments in this country, that person
Reid has denied posting ter marrying his wife, whom to young, post-pubescent and has hopefully “grown was me.”
them altogether but says he has since divorced. She types and want to bring as a person.” After reading her five-min-
security experts she hired questioned whether the them “into the lifestyle.” “I look back today at some ute statement, Reid then
who looked into whether marriage was a sham by Reid has said that these of the ways I’ve talked ca- led a panel discussion on
she had been a hacking a gay man who thought it posts were “fabricated and sually about people and gender stereotypes and
victim found no proof. would help him politically. run counter to my personal gender identity and sexual issues facing the LGBT
“I genuinely do not believe Reid apologized, saying her beliefs and ideology.” She orientation, and I wonder community.q