MSNBC's Joy Reid no longer identifies as being homophobic

MSNBC actress Joy Reid  opened her show "AM Joy" Saturday with an apology for her long history of homophobic comments in which she mocked the LGBTQ community but did not actually apologize to her audience for lying to them with the claim her blog was hacked. She did, however, admit that perhaps her blog wasn't hacked, but that's as far as she went with owning up to her statements.

Reid joylessly addressed the controversy around her old blog posts in which she mocked gays and those who were allegedly gay and admitted she said "dumb" and "hurtful" things in the past.

She no longer is the person she was back when she sucked at being an accepting person of those with different sexual orientations. However, she still hates President Trump and every deplorable who voted for him.

"The person I am now is not the person I was then," she said after being outed for her homophobic slurs. Somehow she has changed and because she is a leftist, must be forgiven as intersectionality suggests--she is a black, liberal woman, and that alone should exonerate her.

Earlier this week, "Lyin' Joy" claimed that somebody hacked into her account after a Twitter tweeter used the Wayback Machine and unearthed her vile homophobic posts from her now defunct blog.

Reid hired a cybersecurity "expert" to investigate and cover up her lies, while the FBI announced they too were probing her claims.

But on Saturday, Reid wasn't able to prove that her account was hacked because it wasn't. She admitted that her posts "do not appear to have been the result of hacking or tampering," which is an indirect way of admitting she wrote them.

"When a friend found them in December and sent them to me, I was stunned," she said. "Frankly, I couldn't imagine where they'd come from or whose voice this was. The reality is they have not been able to prove it."

While Reid refused to own up to her posts, she did admit she'd written anti-gay things previously, as her way of showing she didn't lie about her lie regarding the unearthed posts, but that she was, in her previous life, a homophobe but now identifies as sort of a leader of the gay rights movement.

"I looked back on some of the ways I've talked casually about sexual gender and orientation and I wonder who that even was," she said of her outer-body, 'it wasn't really me' experience. "I'm heartbroken [that she was caught] that I didn't do better back then [and please don't fire me 'cause I need the money]. The reality is I have to own the things I've written and tweeted and said," she said, without really owning them.

Following the controversy, MSNBC and NBC News has been mum over this newsworthy incident. NBC has more than enough controversy on its proverbial plate of manure. Now the "NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw is being accused of sexual misconduct in the aftermath of Matt Lauer's firing over the same issue along with Mark Halperin, Chris Matthews and Matt Zimmerman (Senior Vice President for News and Entertainment at NBC).

Following the blog post incident, the Daily Beast suspended Reid, who was a paid contributor for the media outlet.

Somehow, she still has her job at MSNBC, the leftist network, and they still don't think Reid's story is newsworthy.



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