“It’s official”!
Joy Reid is getting her own show on MSNBC at 7 p.m.:
It's official: MSNBC weekend morning host @JoyReidAnn is moving to 7pm weekdays starting July 20… https://t.co/XJDhAo4jAe
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 9, 2020
And libs “Love. This. News!!!”:
I. Love. This. News!!! @JoyAnnReid is The Perfect person to cover 2020. https://t.co/FnPYCRU0xH
— Neera -Wear a Mask -Tanden (@neeratanden) July 9, 2020
Boy, we sure would like to know how MSNBC’s investigation into that whole hacking incident went:
Maybe now she can give us an update on the investigation into the hacking of her blog. https://t.co/mCDNr1Xogg
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) July 9, 2020
If you don’t recall, Reid made many homophobic and anti-gay statements on her old blog, then said she was hacked and asked for an FBI investigation:
Joy Reid should invite this body language expert back, tell the story about the time when a computer hacker inserted homophobic statements into her old blog posts, and ask the expert to analyze whether she's lying. https://t.co/Wvariq0Vb9
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) January 18, 2020
Brian Stelter says that was covered in the link to the NYT story he posted:
Did you click the link? @grynbaum asked
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 9, 2020
But, surprise! It wasn’t. Instead, Reid just blew it off as old news:
Fair enough. Case closed! pic.twitter.com/TjuPfKKFY4
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) July 9, 2020
Reid has gotten a pass for this for YEARS:
Amazing they can track down and dox a blue collar worker in the Bronx for making a mean video about Nancy Pelosi but nobody has ever tracked down the hackers who posted graphic homophobic content on Joy Reid’s blog in her name and in her voice. https://t.co/2uIJ3vfFSW
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) June 2, 2019
And MSNBC has been dodging for years:
As it happens, it's been one month and Joy Reid's hacker — the one who made her old anti-gay blog posts slightly more anti-gay and manipulated the Wayback Machine — remains at large. This morning I asked MSNBC for an update in the investigation, but haven't heard back https://t.co/r69h8q2HJ8
— Steven Perlberg (@perlberg) May 29, 2018
And now she gets an even bigger reward:
Joy Reid invented a story about a fake hacker & an FBI investigation so that she could falsely deny having written viciously bigoted blog posts, and not only kept her job as host of a *news* program but got praised by her colleagues for doing so:
(Yes, I’m younger than I look): https://t.co/ai1TQlb5Su
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 11, 2020
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