MSNBC Host Joy Reid Apologizes For Homophobic Remarks, Admits No Evidence Of Hacking
MSNBC host Joy Reid has apologized for disparaging comments against LGBT people found on her blog The Reid Report, admitting that there has been no evidence of hacking discovered.After earlier denying authorship of the hurtful remarks, Reid came clean Saturday at the beginning of her MSNBC show AM Joy.“I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things because they are completely alien to me.
But I can definitely understand, based on things I have tweeted, have written in the past, why some people don’t believe me,” she said.
“For that, I am truly, truly sorry.”Reid also apologized to pundit Ann Coulter, whom she suggested in several tweets dating to 2010 and 2011 was a man.
“I want to apologize to the trans community and to Ann,” she said.Originally, Mediaite unearthed the quotes on Reid’s blog, which has been dormant.
But the Internet never forgets, and