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Joy Reid Responds to Latest Blog Posts: Al Qaeda Did 9/11
by Aidan McLaughlin | 1:51 pm, June 1st, 2018

MSNBC host Joy Reid issued a statement on Friday responding to a report that unearthed of more embarrassing posts from her old blog.

Buzzfeed reported this week that in a 2006 blog post, Reid touted a 9/11 conspiracy documentary pinning the attacks on the U.S. government, produced by none other than InfoWars’s Alex Jones:

A March 22, 2006, post to her weblog, Reidblog, archived by the Wayback Machine and titled “The official story,” links to Loose Change 9/11, a viral 80-minute web video originally released in 2005. Loose Change, which was produced in part by Infowars’ Alex Jones, alleged that the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center were in fact planned by the US government. The central claims in Loose Change have been widely debunked.

In another post, Reid photoshopped Sen. John McCain‘s head onto the body of the Virginia Tech school shooter.

When Mediaite first reported on a number of homophobic posts from Reid’s old blog last month, the liberal pundit claimed she was hacked. Those claims didn’t hold up to much scrutiny.

Reid has maintained silence on the blog posts since she addressed them on her show last month. In an episode of AM Joy, Reid apologized for her posts, and said that while she has no evidence she was hacked, she “truly believed” that she had not written them.

Her first response since, obtained by Mediaite, is a statement in which she apologizes to the McCain family, and makes clear she believes Al Qaeda was responsible for the 9/11 attacks.

(No mention of the alleged FBI investigation into the nefarious hacker, curiously.)

Read the full statement here:

While I published my blog, starting in 2005, I wrote thousands of posts in real time on the issues of the day. There are things I deeply regret and am embarrassed by, things I would have said differently and issues where my position has changed. Today I’m sincerely apologizing again.

I’m sorry for the collateral damage and pain this is causing individuals and communities caught in the crossfire.

To be clear, I have the highest respect for Sen. McCain as a public servant and patriot and wish him and his family the best. I have reached out to Meghan McCain and will continue to do so. She is a former on-air colleague and I feel deeply for her and her family.

I’ve also spoken openly about my evolution on many issues and know that I’m a better person today than I was over a decade ago. I am the daughter of immigrants and have worked to be a strong ally of these communities. There is no question in my mind that Al Qaeda perpetrated the 9/11 attacks or about Israel’s right to its sovereignty.

I believe the totality of my work attests to my ideals and I continue to grow every day.

Here's MSNBC's official response to it

Some of the things written by Joy on her old blog are obviously hateful and hurtful. They are not reflective of the colleague and friend we have known at MSNBC for the past seven years. Joy has apologized publicly and privately and said she has grown and evolved in the many years since, and we know this to be true.

 

[AF 802]

I almost read the statement as them saying her posts are "not hateful or hurtful", thought we all know this is what MSNBC is implying in their statement.

 

[Bassomatic]

Good to know, I now am not a racist since I haven't put my klan robe on all day.

We all know people can grow and change view points, Joy is a big dumb attention whore and scum bag. She has not she's a bigoted idiot. Someone admitting they are wrong in the age of social media is an even more respected task. To play that card when you really want a free pass for being a bigoted hack is really upsetting to me.

 

[It's HK-47]

Translation: Joy Reid lied her non-existent balls off for the last month or two like a three year-old covered in cookie crumbs with their whole ass in the cookie jar, claiming they had no idea where the cookies went. You can apologize all you want now, Reid, we all knew you were a lying piece of garbage, but now we have first-hand confirmation that you thought every person on the planet was dumb enough to believe your blatant, ass-covering bullshit.

 

[neverendingmidi]

Had she stated at first, yes I said that but I have grown as a person and am ashamed blah blah blah, she would’ve done some publicity stunt with some group of minorities, and it would’ve blown over.

Then again, with the MSM it will blow over anyways even though she lied out her ass because she’s “on the right side of history”.

 

[RP 520]

Translation: Joy Reid lied her non-existent balls off for the last month or two like a three year-old covered in cookie crumbs with their whole ass in the cookie jar, claiming they had no idea where the cookies went. You can apologize all you want now, Reid, we all knew you were a lying piece of garbage, but now we have first-hand confirmation that you thought every person on the planet was dumb enough to believe your blatant, ass-covering bullshit.

and she's only come clean after they dug up more posts where she made anti-semetic remarks and promoted conspiracies about Bush and the Iraq war, shit on John McCain during the 08' election and claimed him and Palin were fucking each other on the side, and promoted some documentary that claimed 9/11 was an inside job.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

"When Mediaite first reported on a number of homophobic posts from Reid’s old blog last month, the liberal pundit claimed she was hacked. Those claims didn’t hold up to much scrutiny."

Further proof that these liberals are all closeted-haters.

"Some of the things written by Joy on her old blog are obviously hateful and hurtful. They are not reflective of the colleague and friend we have known at MSNBC for the past seven years. Joy has apologized publicly and privately and said she has grown and evolved in the many years since, and we know this to be true."

Translation: We ain't gonna do shit about dis.

 

[Done]

Now it's time for someone to disprove George Takei's "The Russians framed me" lie.

 

[Bassomatic]

Now it's time for someone to disprove George Takei's "The Russians framed me" lie.

It's not really a lie, the 4 Rent boys he keeps one found out his ipad password.

 

[ColtWalker1847]

and she's only come clean after they dug up more posts where she made anti-semetic remarks and promoted conspiracies about Bush and the Iraq war, shit on John McCain during the 08' election and claimed him and Palin were fucking each other on the side, and promoted some documentary that claimed 9/11 was an inside job.

Ah so old lefty conspiracy theories that aged horribly.

But all that is behind her. Now it's time for the new batch of lefty conspiracies!

 

[Judge Holden]

Ya know what doesnt boil my piss in rage? A batshit crazy bigot who spews autistic conspiracy theories. They are usually hilarious.

Ya know what DOES boil my piss in rage? A batshit crazy bigot who spews autistic conspiracy theories....who then proceeds to smugly lecture everyone else on the goddamn planet about how they are all batshit crazy bigots and autistic conspiracy theorists the moment she gets in the media spotlight

Hypocrisy is the ultimate sin. Reid has been sneering at everything and anything trendy for the performatively woke to hate from her pulpit, from trump supporters to people who dont like the right movies to fucking gamergate. The fact she has been exposed as a lying little shitsack who spewed far worse shit than any group she whined about is more delicious than the vintage cheddar cheese-on-toast with plum chutney I just devoured

 

[IV 445]

I wasn't even aware of what Joy Reid's existence until now.

 

[RI 360]

and she's only come clean after they dug up more posts where she made anti-semetic remarks and promoted conspiracies about Bush and the Iraq war, shit on John McCain during the 08' election and claimed him and Palin were fucking each other on the side, and promoted some documentary that claimed 9/11 was an inside job.

lmao this makes me like her tbh.

 

[Mesh Gear Fox]

If she was white, they would have fired her.

 

[RodgerDodger]

the ol’ way back machine is apparently throwing errors whenever you try and pull up those old pages of Joy’s. Hmmmm?

 

[ADHD]

the ol’ way back machine is apparently throwing errors whenever you try and pull up those old pages of Joy’s. Hmmmm?

You can still find some of the archives here.

 

[Ruin]

I seriously don't get it. I've seen her show before and she's really fucking stupid, we're talking like barely literate stupid. Why is this women so valuable that MSNBC is going to such incredibly lengths to defend her even as every single piece of evidence points to her being a massive liability in every conceivable way?

 

[RP 520]

If she was white, they would have fired her.

If she was white she would never make it beyond being a blogger for The Root, Huffpost, or Salon.

 

[Koby_Fish]

she totally tweeted that on Ambien, fam.

 

[RodgerDodger]

I seriously don't get it. I've seen her show before and she's really fucking stupid, we're talking like barely literate stupid. Why is this women so valuable that MSNBC is going to such incredibly lengths to defend her even as every single piece of evidence points to her being a massive liability in every conceivable way?

Because it is unfortunately a very hard and fast trait of the modern left particularly the media. Never Back Down. Never Apologize (or if you do clearly never mean it) Never admit you were wrong. Never admit error. It's always somebody elses fault. She is a member of the Media Tribe. That means she is better than us in every way possible and cannot possibly be wrong or challenged in public.