The Evidence Is Not With Joy Reid

[oberliner]

Excerpt:

Furthermore, the Old Dominion computer scientist Michael Nelson scoured the other public records of Reid’s site to see if he could find evidence for the screenshots that @Jamie_Maz posted. Even without precise URLs, which makes it much easier to look up the records, Nelson was able to identify five matches in the various archives from the screenshots.

There is a small caveat, which is that these other copies probably used the Wayback Machine’s copies as their original source, even if they have stored them separately.

“Nonetheless,” Nelson wrote, “with multiple copies geographically and administratively dispersed throughout the globe, an adversary would have had to hack multiple web archives and alter their contents (cf. lockss.org), or have hacked the original site (blog.reidreport.com) approximately 12 years ago for adulterated pages to have been hosted at all the different web archives.”

As he notes, it is possible that someone did this, but “extraordinarily unlikely.”

Among the implausible factors is that for Reid’s story to be correct, someone would have had to hack her blog back in the ’00s, but no one, including Reid herself, noticed the invalid posts.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/the-evidence-is-not-with-joy-reid/558935/

[hlthe2b]

1. Fifth time I've seen this article posted from the conservative Atlantic...

No one can take down a Democratic/Progressive voice, like "we" can ourselves, it would appear




Yes, I'm damned sick of it. Who next? Should we re-disseminate all Michelle Obama's (or Barack's) ATTRIBUTED, PURPORTED, infamous, and largely untruthful, "pants on fire" statements? Gotta help the RW make them viral too.

WE have seen the "enemy" and it is US.

[mythology]

5. In what alternate universe is the Atlantic a conservative publication?

I get that you don't like the article, but that doesn't make them conservative.

[hlthe2b]

6. It USED to be liberal... (historically).... Now? not so much

[FBaggins]

9. And the author?

I’m sure somewhere in his book “Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology” you’ll find some “RW talking points” - right?

[hlthe2b]

10. A lot of folks here who I've always considered good progressives are pushing hard on Reid story

for whatever motivation.... so, hardly an isolated issue. Just like The Nation has gone so far Pro-Russia thanks to KVH's Russia loving academic hubby.

[FBaggins]

7. Thats easy. The one where inconvenient truths are RW talking points

Essentially the left’s version of Trump’s “fake news” claims.

[avebury]

12. "No one can take down a Democratic/Progressive voice, like "we" can ourselves, it would appear"

That is oh so true.

Liberals/Progressives need to stop eating their own. All it does is play into the hands of the 1%ers and bat sh*t crazy far right to the total detrimate of the Left. There is no level playing field as the far right is free to do whatever they want, no matter how illegal and/or immoral it is and without consequence while they easily trash people on the liberal/progressive side (do as we say not as we do) and the left goes along with it far too often.

They saw themselves get away with the Left finishing off Al Franken for them and found it to be a successful political model in trying to maintain control. They are incapable of winning fairly so they will lie, cheat, steal and get down in the mud to maintain control of the "mountain top."

I really like Joy Reid. She is extremely successful on air in combatting what is going on with Trump and the far right and I am not going to abandon her. We need to be publicly more supportive of those on our side and not let them be picked off one at a time. As long as no criminal act was commited, I don't care what she said in the past, I care about the work she is doing now. The far right have people out there that make Joy Reid look like a choir girl in comparison.

People need to keep their eyes on the ball and focus on dealing with what is going on in this country NOW, not what happened in the past. You cannot change the past, you can only try to influence the present and the future.

[hlthe2b]

13. +1

[Tipperary]

17. Same posters who clamored for Frankens head, it seems.

[janterry]

2. The Daily Beast concurs and has investigated

https://www.thedailybeast.com/claims-by-joy-reids-cybersecurity-expert-fall-apart


Very sad for Reid. I think it's going to take time for all of this to digest

[TheSmarterDog]

3. Next up: The stunning new information from The Intercept.

Which is just a re-hash of the same Breitbart article we see here.

Give it a rest, Francis.

[shanny]

14. The Atlantic is Breitbart?

Not.

[uponit7771]

4. Stupid article, 1. I've never went back and looked at 3 day old post to see if someone altered

... them, 2. there was 3 days between one of the post and TWBM scraping, that's 3 lifetimes in hacking world, 3. If its implausible for Reid not to notice the post being change its even more implausible no one noticed they were made at all !! Few if any feedback at that time on them.

[still_one]

8. I will wait for the FBI to weigh in on this before I make a conclusion for something that happened

over a decade ago

[leftynyc]

11. I'll wait for the fbi to have their say

But in all honesty, it hasn't gone unnoticed that you have been posting anti-Reid articles all week. We all know what the situation is and don't need this kind of bullshit to remind us.

[rzemanfl]

16. +1 n/t.

[rzemanfl]

15. I keep waiting for Casprings to join this discussion. n/t

[winstars]

18. Who cares about this BS??? There's 20 freakin' threads on Joy. It feels like the summer pf 2016!

I love Joy Reid and I could give a shit about some obscure blog posts she may or may not have actually written years ago.

Boring.

[PubliusEnigma]

19. You are getting played like a two-bit fiddle. Are you too dumb to realize this?? Or do you like it?