Next week, when Joy Reid begins hosting her new primetime MSNBC program, “The ReidOut,” I will not be watching.
But not because of her progressivism.
You see, those progressive bona fides “were called into question in 2017,” a New York Times feature on Reid’s promotion to cable TV’s evening lineup notes, “when homophobic posts and comments from ‘The Reid Report,’ a blog she wrote in the mid- to late 2000s, resurfaced on social media.”
When those writings were discovered, Reid publicly claimed her blog’s archive must have been hacked.
“We have received confirmation the FBI has opened an investigation into potential criminal activities surrounding several online . . . blog accounts, belonging to Joy-Ann Reid,” her attorney told CNN in 2018.
But the offending posts were captured by the Wayback Machine, an internet archive, and were obviously not the result of a hack.
No one bought her dodge.
“Later,” as The Times puts it, “she acknowledged that there was little evidence that the posts had been faked.”
“Little” . . . meaning zero.
The Times also refers to Reid’s “lengthy apology” to viewers. “The person I am now is not the person I was then,” she offered. But she never owned up to writing the “hateful” posts.
“I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things,” she argued, “because they are completely alien to me.”
But she did write them. And lied to the FBI, apparently, to hide the truth.
In a time of unbridled shaming and social-media-mob recriminations for any lack of keeping up with the dominant wokeness, how is Reid able to insult gays and (to top it off) everyone’s intelligence with such bald-faced lies?
And to be rewarded with a primetime cable TV gig. Lying works!
That’s indecent.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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