Joy Reid had two entire hours to address and apologize for controversial, newly-resurfaced posts from her old blog during Saturday’s broadcast of her MSNBC show.
She opted, however, to ignore the topic entirely.
In the past, Reid has alerted her MSNBC viewers to the fact that while posts, which have disparaged homosexuals, Jews, 9/11 victims, and a litany of others, might be circulating throughout the right-wing echo chamber, they shouldn’t blame her because various hackers wrote them instead.
But after this past week shined a spotlight on Reid’s posts likening Sen. John McCain to the Virginia Tech shooter, and advocated Iraqi-mob justice for Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham, she abandoned her it-was-hackers defense.
Joy Reid apologizes for past blog posts – no mentions of hackers here pic.twitter.com/P0EoHSQ5cy
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) June 1, 2018
Sean Hannity, an extremely unlikely ally, said Reid had made mistakes more than 10 years ago, but has apologized and she should be forgiven.
But her apologies were general expressions of regret rather than actual apologies to the people she insulted.
Circulating a written statement on Twitter is different than looking into a camera and admitting wrongdoing.
MSNBC, Reid’s employer, is still defending her.
“Some of the things written by Joy on her old blog are obviously hateful and hurtful,” the network wrote in a statement on Friday, adding, “They are not reflective of the colleague and friend we have known at MSNBC for the past seven years.”
