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| Joy Reid faces controversy over her decade old blog in which she slammed a lawmaker for being in the closet. |
The boycott against Sean "Softball" Hannity continues. The pressure to have his advertisers drop him hasn't stop.
The softball denounced Roy Moore accusers and it triggered a backlash.
Many believe that for years, the softball has gotten away with peddling bullshit on radio and television. He has been an unapologetic defender of Trump.
His antics have taken a toll with mainstream conservatives and his opponents.
The softball is an informed adviser to the inept leader.
He's been trying to save his ass by dialing back some of his rhetoric. But he is asking his "Hannitized" supporters to find dirt on progressives.
The right is trying their best at taking down progressive agitator Joy Reid.
AM Joy is a hit. The agitator got a second chance after her weekday program was shelved in 2013. She was rehired to do weekend programming after the messy ouster of Melissa Harris-Perry.
Reid's show could be over if pressure starts to build up against her advertisers.
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| Rep. Charlie Crist (D-FL) was then a Republican governor who supported gay marriage bans. He denounced his past positions. He was targeted by then talk radio agitator/blogger Joy Ann Reid, who would become one of MSNBC's most prominent agitators. |
The right is trying to paint her as anti-gay and homophobic.
Reid is anti-Republican/conservative. She and many on the left have followed the kookspiracy about Republicans who pass stupid anti-LGBT laws while secretly living a gay lifestyle.
Some Republicans were outed.
Crist is currently a Democratic congressman.
Reid had a blog that specifically mocked Crist as being gay and she refered him as Miss Charlie.
This is picking up steam now that she admitted to posting the comments.
She publicly apologized her show. She went to social media and MSNBC's LGBT OUT to write a full apology.
She said that she wasn't intentionally attacking the LGBT community.
"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."
"In addition to friends and coworkers and viewers, I deeply apologize to Congressman Crist, who was the target of my thoughtlessness. My critique of anti-LGBT positions he once held but has since abandoned was legitimate in my view. My means of critiquing were not."
She was criticizing Crist for supporting a gay marriage ban in Florida. Crist has a whisper campaign against him and it still haunts him.
He was a lifelong bachelor until 2009. He is currently married to his wife, Carole. He was one of the few Republicans who supported Barack Obama's agenda. He tried to run for the Senate in 2010 against former state house speaker Marco Rubio. He lost in the Republican primary. He decided to run as an independent and lost to Rubio.
Rubio would end up running for president. He lost that bid but secured a second term as senator despite his hypocritical boast he would resign if he failed to win the presidential nomination.
Rubio would denounce the Republicans and officially leave the party in 2014.
Crist tried to run for governor as a Democrat and lost badly.
Crist would run a quiet campaign in 2016 and ousted David Jolly, a Republican congressman turned MSNBC commentator and future host.
Crist accepted the apology and Reid wants to have him on her show to publicly apologize.
Now as a MSNBC agitator in the age of Donald J. Trump it earned Reid praise and harsh criticism. The progressive leaning network has devoted more time criticizing him. It's been beneficial for the network whereas Fox News is constantly defending him.
Reid is very critical of the softball and many on the right.
She supports the boycott of Softball Hannity.
The minions of Breitbart are trying to drag Roy Moore, an accused pedophile into the Senate. The conservatives are trying murk up the waters with allegations against progressives and Democrats who targeted Moore and Trump.
That's why Reid came under fire.
Reid has filled in for Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell and Brian Williams during the primetime. People are vying for her to get a primetime spot.
Let me add this. Reid had Crist on back in June 2016 to discuss the phony Republican sympathy towards the victims of the Pulse Nightclub, a prominent Latin and gay establishment. That was one of the deadliest mass shooting in recent history. It would be overshadowed the by Las Vegas massacre in October 2017.
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