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In reply to the discussion: I'm a fan of Joy Reid - also a fan of the truth... [View all]uponit7771
(93,532 posts)53. Again, she's already apologized for those post there's no reason why she would have
... say anything more to the people who have enough grace to move on.
Why in the hell would she have to say the post pushed by Breitbart et all (which are not in the OP) are false?
That's beyond insane
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If her lawyer was actually enough of a fuckwit to bring in the FBI she has bigger problems.
Spider Jerusalem
Apr 2018
#2
Again, she's already apologized for those post there's no reason why she would have
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#53
She's not apologizing for inartful post she didn't write herself, what about that is confusing !?!?
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#92
The fact that they brought in the FBI, knowing the risk, is a positive indication...
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2018
#62
And possible for someone with an active blog to not notice a post they didn't write, themselves?
Spider Jerusalem
Apr 2018
#79
Well, the large audience she had at the time didn't notice either which adds to her point
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#82
Spider, it takes seconds to hack and seconds to spoof a post ... come on man
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#84
It's even more implausible that no one else noticed the posting or she didn't get crap
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#86
Because of her acknowledged history of homophobic blog posts re Charlie Crist?
Spider Jerusalem
Apr 2018
#87
No, at the time in 2007 she had a progressive audience and editors that would've jumped
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#89
Cause a couple of trillion people noticed, like they did in 2007 right? ... NO !!! Cause those...
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#94
We agree on the date, looks like we differ on whether someone would've said something to her
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#97
Joan Walsh disagrees with that assessment about "little" I'll accept her knowledge of the Reid.
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#101
I don't see those pages being archived elsewhere I also give Reid TBOTD seeing nothing about her
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#107
So calling in the proper authories to investigate is an automatic sign of guilt?
TheSmarterDog
Apr 2018
#133
Joy Reid is not anti-gay and she apologized for insensitive inartful post of the past. Few if any ..
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#3
That's not proof she's lying when scrapers like LoC and TWBM pic up changes to sites that
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#5
If the site had been changed then that would appear with a newer archival timestamp
Spider Jerusalem
Apr 2018
#7
You didn't post the blog inputs her experts says were spoofed, again I'm skeptical
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#9
I understand ad homs via condescension, usually a tactic when one can't back up a claim
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#48
Link and quote her saying this was hacked, again ... I want to read it from her or her
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#56
Again, words she's already apologized for EVEN IF THEY WERE HERS. I'll give her TBOTD when
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#65
Nope, she hasn't apologised for it, she's claimed it was "hacked" (n/t)
Spider Jerusalem
Apr 2018
#70
Yes, that's true but for the latest comments that recently came to light...
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2018
#66
This is false on its face, she did apologize for post she's written in the past she has not
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#67
Don't know what's confusing about not having to apologize for something she didn't do
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#77
I'm skeptical, you're posting about what she's apologized for in the past and not the post
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#8
Then she apologized for her comments in the past already, I covered that. Reid isn't Anti-gay
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#11
The issue is there were more post that came up through an archive search that are about
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#37
She's saying she didn't and the FBI is looking into it, she's earned the TBOTD. I think that's
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#74
NP, Some are trying to say Reid is anti-gay when there's nothing about her that says such
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#90
the snickers commercial? really? I thought it was cute, but yeah there were probably cretins who
hlthe2b
Apr 2018
#12
+1, all of this noise is to claim Reid is anti-gay. The one thing I would've changed in the
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#17
Well, I don't agree with her assessment, but hopefully I hang out with more enlightened people
hlthe2b
Apr 2018
#21
She apologized for her Crist comments. She claims these posts were all hacked.
Drunken Irishman
Apr 2018
#22
Reid actually apologized about ALL of her post not just the Christ one (link)
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#44
seems pretty comprehensive to me, even if she chose the Crist issue to focus on...
hlthe2b
Apr 2018
#78
+1, she apologized and moved on. They're working overtime to present her as anti-gay
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#26
Sigh, there's no claim of hacking the post in the OP and the OP hasn't posted what
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#19
I'm as non-homophobic as a man could be ... in fact, I've smoked a pole or two on occasion ...
mr_lebowski
Apr 2018
#27
She's saying AMERICANS are repulsed by it, why throw this bullshit ass'd shade?!
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#32
In the Hardaway post not the second one of two men kissing. I don't see where she said ".. I..."
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#39
+1, I don't like movies where black men are sexualized by white women or teenage sex
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#42
Exactly. We all 'have our things we don't especially care to watch' but that doesn't mean ...
mr_lebowski
Apr 2018
#51
Oh,hell I can talk about anything. It is sitting there with no where to look except to stare...
hlthe2b
Apr 2018
#41
Fair enough ... what I'm really getting at is it's a far cry from 'homophobia' for someone to say ..
mr_lebowski
Apr 2018
#46
Besides my other random ramblings on this thread can I just say ... I've known a lot of women ...
mr_lebowski
Apr 2018
#81
SOME archived versions could have been manipulated, too. The one claim doesn't exclude the other.
pnwmom
Apr 2018
#110
In view of everything that's happened this year, including the alteration of the DNC emails,
pnwmom
Apr 2018
#113
There is nothing implausible about the idea that Russian hackers could embellish and alter
pnwmom
Apr 2018
#115
So could the fact that casual homophobia was more acceptable a decade ago
Spider Jerusalem
Apr 2018
#116