MSNBC’s Joy Reid: Homophobic Posts On My Blog Were Made By ‘An Unknown, External Party’

According to MSNBC anchor Joy Reid, homophobic posts she appeared to have made on The Reid Report, a site that pre-dated Reid’s former MSNBC show with the same name, were created by an “external party” that “manipulated material from my now-defunct blog.”

Last December, Reid apologized when she admitted she had written homophobic material between 2007-2009, including attacking former Florida governor Charlie Crist by calling him “Miss Charlie” and trumpeting that Crist was actually a closeted gay man who stayed closeted for fear of the effect such a revelation would have on his political career. As Mediate pointed out at the time, “As bad as the conspiracy theory is in itself, Reid doesn’t just suggest Cris is gay — she assumes he is gay and proceeds to attack him for it. ‘Miss Charlie, Miss Charlie. Stop pretending, brother. It’s okay that you don’t go for the ladies,’ wrote Reid in a 2007 post.”