MSNBC host Joy Reid apologizes for Charlie Crist blog posts

[Eugene]

Source: LGBTQ Nation

MSNBC host Joy Reid apologizes for Charlie Crist blog posts

By Alex Bollinger · Sunday, December 3, 2017

This past week, a Twitter user found archived blog posts from 2007 to 2009 written by MSNBC host and national correspondent Joy Reid about former Florida governor Charlie Crist in which she repeatedly said that he was a closeted gay man.

She has now released a statement apologizing.

“This note is my apology to all who are disappointed by the content of blogs I wrote a decade ago, for which my choice of words and tone have legitimately been criticized. As a writer, I pride myself on a facility with language — an economy of words or at least some wisdom in the selection,” Reid said. “However, that clearly has not always been the case.”

She also just tweeted “#AdmittingYoureWrongIs essential. More soon.”

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Read more: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/12/msnbc-host-joy-reid-apologizes-charlie-crist-blog-posts/

[tazkcmo]

1. she's right, she made a mistake.

Crist was and still is a grade A butt hole. I forgive you, Joy.

[femmedem]

2. Good. That's all I needed from her.

Her full apology--which I think is spot-on--is here: https://www.thewrap.com/msnbcs-joy-reid-apologizes-past-comments-gays-disappointed/

[irisblue]

3. The threads in GD going on & on about this....

I'm not sure why I read through them. Why are so many set on tearing the Dem Party into shreds?

[Behind the Aegis]

4. Frankly, I think something else is much more discouraging.

The fact she apologized for something which was homophobic, and yet people are still defending it! Even worse, the straightsplain' and the people who forget gay men are a goddamned minority worthy of respect, especially by those who are gay themselves.

As far as I am concerned, it demonstrates the contempt people have for gay men and the willingness to overlook homophobia and heterosexism, especially when the target is gay men!