Twitter Unearths Joy Reid's Homophobic Blog Posts

[Delmar]

Sat Dec 2, 2017, 12:32 AM
Star Member Sarcoline (15 posts)

Twitter Unearths Joy Reid's Homophobic Blog Posts


https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/12/twitter-thread-unearths-joy-reids-homophobic-blog.html

If you read Joy Reid’s Wikipedia page, you’ll notice something of a gap in her professional history. The current television host at MSNBC doesn’t have much going on from the years of 2007-2009, after her South Florida radio show ended and before she became editor of The Grio.

Well, according to Twitter user @Jamie_Maz, Reid spent that time putting up blog posts about Florida politician Charlie Crist, and the vast majority of them attacked Crist for being a closeted gay man. She repeatedly referred to Crist, who has been married to two different women, as “Miss Charlie,” and relentlessly claimed that he had only gotten married to further his political ambitions. There is no evidence for any of these claims and Reid clearly thinks it’s nothing but an excellent running gag, but even if it were true, this kind of derisive, insulting language would be homophobic.

Reid seems to think that insinuating that a politician (with a complicated history on the topic of same-sex marriage) is a closeted gay man is endlessly hilarious. You can practically see her patting herself on the back for what she thinks is a great joke.

You can click on any of the tweets below to see the full thread, and you can go the archives themselves here https://web.archive.org/web/20130708032618/http://blog.reidreport.com/labels/Charlie%20Crist.html . Those are all of Reid’s blog posts about Charlie Crist. Fun fact: if you hit Command-F and type in “Miss Charlie,” you’ll find no fewer than 17 instances of that exact phrase. She called him that epithet for years, and we shouldn’t need to tell you that conflating homosexuality with femininity and insulting a man for it is incredibly homophobic.

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Here are a few highlights from the thread:

1/x From 2007 to 2009 @joyannreid authored a dozen homophobic posts not only attempting to out Charlie Crist as gay, she attacked & mocked him for being so.

She repeatedly referred to him as "Miss Charlie" and tagged posts about him under "gay politicians." (thread)

2/x Joy constantly refers to Crist mockingly as "Miss Charlie" and insinuates that his marriage is a fraud to cover up his being gay. pic.twitter.com/2E7i8rCq8C

3/x She makes a joke about John McCain "tapping" Crist, says Crist spent his honeymoon ogling male waiters and thinking about how he didn't want to see his wife naked, and mocked Crist's big gay wedding. pic.twitter.com/KmWxJymc3J

4/x Joy mocks Crist as Will from Will and Grace, says he is faking a marriage to a woman to run for VP. pic.twitter.com/dTShwF1ecQ

5/x Joy says Crist would decorate the White House with flamingo-shaped napkins making it gayer than George Takei. pic.twitter.com/Y7euWsip0P

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You'd think that leftists would be eager to find something to distract from all the liberal men getting caught up in sexual harassment controversies.

Sat Dec 2, 2017, 12:32 AM
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Response to Post removed (Original post)Sat Dec 2, 2017, 12:42 AM
Star Member brush (14,895 posts)
2. OK, it seems it's open seadon on Joy Reid, second post in last two days bashing her.

Response to Post removed (Original post)Sat Dec 2, 2017, 12:42 AM
melman (2,708 posts)
3. Wow that's ugly

Not at all surprised though considering the source.

Hypocrite. 

President Trump calls Warren Pocahontas and the primitives go ape shit but Joy Reid uses gay slurs and the primitives sweep it under the rug.

Bunch of phony SOBs.

[Old n Grumpy]

She is BLACK, she can do no wrong. 

[Delmar]

Another primitive has tried to shed a little light on the phony baloney hypocrite hack homophobe Reid, got coerced into taking down the post. 

Sun Dec 3, 2017, 08:14 AM
Star Member DonViejo (35,212 posts)

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Here's what DonViejo's post looked like before he got strong-armed into silence.

Sun Dec 3, 2017, 08:14 AM
Star Member DonViejo (35,171 posts)

MSNBC Host Joy Reid Wrote Numerous Anti-Gay Articles on Her Old Blog


Recently resurfaced internet archives show political commentator Joy Reid wrote a dozen blog posts in 2007, 2008, and 2009 that contained homophobic conspiracies and anti-gay jokes.

The MSNBC weekend host ran a blog called The Reid Report — which is the same name as her now-defunct cable news show — a decade ago while she wrote for the Miami Herald. As first resurfaced by Twitter user Jamie_Maz and reported by Paste Magazine, Reid wrote numerous bigoted blog posts smearing, mocking, and attacking former Florida governor Charlie Crist. These rants included calling Crist “Miss Charlie” and sarcastically using the tags “gay politicians” and “not gay politicians” — despite the fact that the twice-married, heterosexual man has never come out as gay.

Reid went on to spread the conspiracy theory that Crist was actually a closeted gay man who refused to come out for fear that his sexual orientation would hurt his political career. Additionally, the AM Joy host claims Crist’s marriages to women are part of this elaborate cover up.

As bad as the conspiracy theory is in itself, Reid doesn’t just suggest Crist is gay — she assumes he is gay and proceeds to seemingly deride 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.

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https://www.mediaite.com/online/msnbc-host-joy-reid-wrote-numerous-anti-gay-articles-on-her-old-blog/

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Response to DonViejo (Original post)Sun Dec 3, 2017, 08:45 AM
Blue_Adept (4,043 posts)
27. Man, the Crist thing was a regular topic here for YEARS

All that proves is that the primitives at democrat underground are as big of hypocrites as Joy Reid.

(Google Mann Coulter at democrat underground).

[BamaMoose]

And another:

Hassin Bin Sober (17,885 posts)

MSNBC Host Joy Reid Wrote Numerous Anti-Gay Articles on Her Old Blog
   
MSNBC Host Joy Reid Wrote Numerous Anti-Gay Articles on Her Old Blog

https://www.mediaite.com/online/msnbc-host-joy-reid-wrote-numerous-anti-gay-articles-on-her-old-blog/

Recently resurfaced internet archives show political commentator Joy Reid wrote a dozen blog posts in 2007, 2008, and 2009 that contained homophobic conspiracies and anti-gay jokes.

The MSNBC weekend host ran a blog called The Reid Report — which is the same name as her now-defunct cable news show — a decade ago while she wrote for the Miami Herald. As first resurfaced by Twitter user Jamie_Maz, Reid wrote numerous bigoted blog posts smearing, mocking, and attacking former Florida governor Charlie Crist. These rants included calling Crist “Miss Charlie” and sarcastically using the tags “gay politicians” and “not gay politicians” — despite the fact that the twice-married, heterosexual man has never come-out as gay.

Reid went on to spread the crackpot conspiracy theory that Crist was actually a closeted gay man who refused to come out for fear that his sexual orientation would hurt his political career. Additionally, the AM Joy host claims Crist’s marriages to women are part of this elaborate cover up.

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.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029920923

Which was removed and then restored after Reid admitted it.

Responses are typical for DUmmies:

tenderfoot (2,901 posts)

1. There was a thread on this earlier...
 
and this is a right wing smear campaign by a right wing twitter user.

https://twitter.com/jamie_maz

Read through their tweets 

First blame the messenger.

tenderfoot (2,901 posts)

6. Greenwald is running with it...
 
He is such a tool.

Throw an ex-DU hero a little further under the bus.

yardwork (45,705 posts)

3. Joy said something mean about Bernie so Russian trolls go after her.
 
Interesting. Looks like collusion between Putin and Bernie's campaign. 

And of course the Russians and Bernie-bots are in on it.

The Jews haven't been blamed yet, but give it time.

[SVPete]

Truett Cathy expresses disagreement with same-sex marriage and Progs call for a boycott of CfA.

A black female Prog gets exposed as deriding an R as a gay, as if that were something awful, and she gets a pass. Just another day in predictable DU & Prog hypocrisy.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

DonViejo (35,224 posts)

Joy Reid Apologizes for Past Anti-Gay Articles: 'Insensitive, Tone Deaf and Dumb'

by Josh Feldman | 2:17 pm, December 3rd, 2017

MSNBC’s Joy Reid has apologized for old posts of hers containing homophobic remarks.

As Mediaite reported yesterday, Reid repeatedly mocked then-Florida Governor Charlie Crist as a closeted gay man who she nicknamed “Miss Charlie.”

“Now that he’s married to a girl,” she wrote in one such post, “Charlie Crist is being sought out for all KINDS of good stuff… [The GOP] are wooing Miss Charlie to run.”

In a statement provided to Mediaite, Reid apologized and said, “At no time have I intentionally sought to demean or harm the LGBT community, which includes people whom I deeply love. My goal, in my ham-handed way, was to call out potential hypocrisy.”

She continues:

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. There is no excusing it – not based on the taste-skewing mores of talk radio or the then-blogosphere, and not based on my intentions.

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https://www.mediaite.com/online/joy-reid-apologizes-for-past-anti-gay-articles-insensitive-tone-deaf-and-dumb/

LexVegas (3,649 posts)
1. The "attack the minorities" strategy has failed miserably for the Bros. But keep trying.

spooky3 (19,623 posts)
2. This has already been posted at least once.

greeny2323 (490 posts)
3. They weren't "anti-gay" ...

You left out "...when Proglodytes do it."


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[Carl]

The left hates that their words can be found easily now.