The mainstream media spews their vitriol about President Trump endlessly.
And while CNN may be the biggest fake news culprit, you can’t forget about The New York Times, The Washington Post, and MSNBC.
But now one hardcore anti-Trump host on MSNBC is finding herself in hot water for some rather surprising comments she made in her past.
Joy Reid, host of “AM Joy” and contributor to The Daily Beast, has always been extremely vocal against Trump.
Following Trump’s United Nations speech in September, Reid too called Trump’s supporters “deplorables”.
Reid had written:
“Sometimes I think Donald Trump has given up on the idea of ever being respected by anyone other than his ‘deplorables.’“
Which shows you just how much she values the hardworking Americans who were tired of the oppression they received under previous administrations.
But Reid’s past is catching up to her as several anti-homosexual blogs she authored have just surfaced.
Fox News reports:
“MSNBC host Joy Reid wrote a dozen blog posts from 2007-2009 containing offensive homophobic remarks and anti-gay jokes.
The old blog posts ─ unearthed by a Twitter user and reported by Mediatite ─ targeted former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, whom Reid mocked as “Miss Charlie” for being gay and closeted even though there was never any proof that he was. The posts fanned rumors of Crist’s sexual orientation and his political opponents tried to tar him with the gossip during his governorship — when he was a Republican.
The controversial host apologized Sunday for the posts.
“This note is my apology to all who are disappointed by the content of blogs I wrote a decade ago, for which my choice of words and tone have legitimately been criticized,” Reid said in a statement to Fox News.
“As a writer, I pride myself on a facility with language ─ an economy of words or at least some wisdom in the selection,” she said. “However, that clearly has not always been the case.”
Mediaite reported it was able to retrieve the posts from Reid’s blog, which no longer exists, through an online archiving service.
“Miss Charlie, Miss Charlie, Stop pretending, brother,” Reid wrote in a 2007 post, according to the media outlet. “It’s okay that you don’t go for the ladies.”
In another, the “AM Joy” host wrote, “Now that he’s married to a girl, Charlie Crist is being sought out for all KINDS of good stuff… [The GOP] are wooing Miss Charlie to run.”
In a Dec. 12, 2008, post, Reid belittled Crist as dreading physical relations with his wife on their honeymoom. “I can just see poor Charlie on the honeymoon, ogling the male waiters and thinking to himself, ‘god, do I actually have to see her naked…?’” she wrote.
The same blog post included a joke about Crist having sex with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Mediaite reported. “Get your mind out of the gutter,” she joked.
Reid commented in the blog that the reason the former Florida governor got married to another woman in the first place was to help him become McCain’s 2008 running mate.
Mediaite counted 17 times Reid derisively referred to Crist as “Miss Charlie.” The subject led her to opine on why gay men stay in the closet.
“When a gay politician gets married, it usually indicates that he is highly ambitious, and desires to put himself in a position to move up the power ladder,” she wrote.
She further mocked Crist with tags “gay politicians” and “not gay politicians.”
In her statement, Reid said her blog posts were written at the time when Crist was a conservative Republican, whose positions on issues like gay marriage and adoption by same-sex couples in Florida shared headlines with widely rumored reports that he was hiding his sexual orientation.
“Those reports were the subject of lots of scrutiny,” she said.
“Let me be clear: at no time have I intentionally sought to demean or harm the LGBT community, which includes people whom I deeply love,” she said. “My goal, in my ham-handed way, was to call out potential hypocrisy.”
She added, “Nonetheless, as someone who is not a member of the LGBT community, I regret the way I addressed the complex issue of the closet and speculation on a person’s sexual orientation with a mocking tone and sarcasm. It was insensitive, tone deaf and dumb.”
Tone-deaf is a massive understatement. Her comments were straight up homophobic.
Reid’s attempt to escape accountability is just another liberal double-standard.
The left constantly digs up old quotes from conservatives and then uses them to run them right out of polite society.
Liberals are now feeling what it’s like to live under the same rules they created—and they aren’t finding them very pleasant.