MSNBC’s Reid apologizes again for old blog posts
NEW YORK — MSNBC’s Joy Reid is apologizing again for past blog posts, including one that had an image of Sen. John McCain superimposed on the body of a campus killer and another where she urged people to watch a conspiracy film tied to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Reid said Friday there are things for which she is embarrassed and regretful about a blog she began writing in 2005. News organizations have been combing through some of those deleted blog posts to examine her writings.
Buzzfeed uncovered a doctored image of McCain’s head atop the gun-toting body of the Virginia Tech campus shooter, in a post from 2007. In a separate post a year earlier, she urged people to see a film partly funded by Alex Jones of “Infowars” that falsely alleged the U.S. government planned the 2001 attacks.
“I’ve … spoken openly about my evolution on many issues and know that I’m a better person today than I was over a decade ago,” Reid said.