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In reply to the discussion: I'm a fan of Joy Reid - also a fan of the truth... [View all]Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)71. She posted em, tho.
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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