Poetic Justice for a Bigot! The Reid Out, Wipe Out
Some of the most absurd statements attributed to that semi-human dumpster fire, Joy Reid
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1. Claims About Hacking and Homophobic Blog Posts
Statement: Reid claimed that homophobic and offensive posts on her old blog, The Reid Report, from the mid-2000s were the result of hacking, suggesting an “unknown, external party” manipulated her content to include fabricated, hateful references that were “completely alien” to her beliefs.
Why It’s Absurd: Multiple investigations, including analyses by The Daily Beast and the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, found no evidence of hacking. Critics argued that Reid’s claim required believing in a sophisticated, retroactive digital manipulation that went unnoticed for years, which many found implausible. She later apologized but maintained the hacking narrative, even suggesting the Wayback Machine itself might have been compromised.
Additional Details: Reid said things like “most straight people cringe at the sight of two men kissing” and that “adult gay men tend to be attracted to very young, post-pubescent types” in those blog posts. She also opposed same-sex marriage at the time, which contradicted her later public persona as an ally to the LGBTQ community.
2. Inflation and Public Intelligence
Statement: In 2022, Reid claimed on MSNBC that the word “inflation” isn’t part of common language and that most people only started using it because they were “taught” it by the media and the Republican Party, implying viewers were not intelligent enough to understand economic concepts independently.
Why It’s Absurd: This statement was widely mocked by…
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