9-11 conspiracy/Alex Jones pushing, attacking Israel, attacking immigrants, attacking John McCain, etc etc, a tonne of leaks have been coming out again. I am positive this is a reaction about Roseanne from the RW, but some of the kingpins of MSM are picking it up now.
MSNBC’s Joy Reid is losing her standing to criticize Trump
A newsmaker appears to have offended the LGBT community, embraced the work of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and attacked Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) — and it is not President Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/06/01/msnbcs-joy-reid-is-losing-her-standing-to-criticize-trump/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0ada96178a82
Trump has done each of those things, but it now looks as though MSNBC host Joy Reid has, too, which creates a problem for the liberal commentator. With each revelation about old entries on her defunct blog, Reid is losing her standing to criticize the president — a core function of her weekly program.
BuzzFeed reported Thursday that a 2007 http://blog.reidreport.com/2007/10/baghdad-john-strikes-again.html" target="_blank">post on Reid's blog featured a photoshopped image of McCain's head on the body of Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho. The post mocked McCain, then a presidential candidate, for telling workers at a New Hampshire firearms factory that “I will follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell, and I will shoot him with your products.”
How illustrating McCain as a domestic terrorist compares with saying “he's not a war hero,” as Trump did in 2015, is a matter of opinion. But both commentaries exceeded the bounds of standard political discourse.
BuzzFeed reported earlier this week that http://blog.reidreport.com/2006/03/official-story.html" target="_blank">another Reid blog post, from 2006, promoted a film on which Jones was an executive producer. “Loose Change” contends that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were planned by the U.S. government, a false claim that Jones often repeats on his radio show and on his website, Infowars. Jones has similarly claimed that the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut was a false flag operation. Trump was a guest on Jones's show in 2015 and praised the host for an “amazing” reputation.
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MSNBC stays silent as Joy Reid comes under more scrutiny
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/31/msnbc-stays-silent-as-joy-reid-comes-under-more-scrutiny-616111
Pressure on MSNBC and its star host Joy Reid grew on Thursday, as embarrassing posts from her old blog—on which she has expressed anti-gay views and promoted 9/11 conspiracy theories—continued to surface.
All the while, Reid has remained on the air, weighing in on topics like Roseanne Barr’s racist tweet and the cancellation of her ABC sitcom.
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Wednesday night, Fox host Tucker Carlson aired a segment highlighting decade-old posts in which Reid expressed views on immigration that sounded straight from the “America First” playbook, including that “flying the Mexican flag on U.S. soil strikes me as incredibly presumptuous and insulting to the US.”
Carlson crowed, “It’s possible that Reid will claim those posts were written by a mysterious hacker, she’s claimed that before, the last time she got caught with embarrassing blog posts. Maybe she’ll blame the entire thing on Vladimir Putin himself or some nameless Macedonian agent.”
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Offensive old blog posts mount, but Joy Reid and MSNBC remain silent
http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/01/media/joy-reid-blog-msnbc/index.html
MSNBC Silent On Joy Reid As Blog Scandal Resurfaces
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/msnbc-joy-reid-blog-posts_us_5b105ec1e4b02143b7cae905
Reid’s now-defunct blog is back in the news — this time for controversial posts about 9/11 and Sen. John McCain.
MSNBC’s Joy Reid and her now-defunct blog, The Reid Report, are making headlines again this week after BuzzFeed reported on two controversial posts she apparently wrote in 2006 and 2007.
The posts, which feature a 9/11 conspiracy theory and a manipulated image of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) as a mass shooter, were resurrected by BuzzFeed roughly a month after Reid dubiously claimed her old blog had been hacked to include homophobic content written under her name.
MSNBC has yet to acknowledge the latest controversy surrounding the host of their weekend show “AM Joy,” and Reid has been noticeably silent about BuzzFeed’s reports on social media.
Representatives of MSNBC did not respond to HuffPost’s multiple requests for comment. Neither Reid’s attorney nor a cybersecurity expert Reid hired to investigate the alleged hacking of her old blog responded to multiple requests for comment either.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20130122025445/http://blog.reidreport.com/2005/12/irans-pres-strikes-again.html
Says "move Israel to Europe"
Update (Bienvenu au l'Israel): Wizbang makes this Ahmad Amadinejad zinger (I can finally write that without looking it up) their quote of the day (and their readers curiously vote for France...):
"You believe the Jews were oppressed, why should the Palestinian Muslims have to pay the price? You oppressed them, so give a part of Europe to the Zionist regime so they can establish any government they want. We would support it. So, Germany and Austria, come and give one, two or any number of your provinces to the Zionist regime so they can create a country there... and the problem will be solved at its root."
I hate to admit that Mr. Amadinejad has a point ... but it was the German government of the 1930s and the Vichy French who perpetrated and abetted the Holocaust (and a plurality of the Israelis are former German nationals, plus lower castes consisting of Eastern Europeans, Russians, Sephardic Jews from the Mediterranean and at the bottom of the social pyramid, Falasha Africans ...) It does seem a tad cheeky of the British to have unilaterally awarded the victims land belonging to living Palestinians as restitution. After all, God is not a real estate broker. He can't just give you land 1,000 years ago that you can come back and claim today.
Israel is the 3rd rail of US politics, unfortunately, but I hope she survives this cocked up shitstorm
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