Left eats left. Guess they weren’t chowing down on that bull that Joy was slinging.
Via Townhall:
MSNBC Host Joy Reid has come under siege. Past posts on her now defunct blog, The Reid Report, showcased a rather ugly side of the liberal media personality, fraught with anti-gay rhetoric. This isn’t the first time. A trove of posts was unearthed in December of 2017, written between 2007 and 2009, that mocked former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist; she issued an apology. Now, a new post dump has dropped, but instead of apologizing, she’s claiming the entries were fabricated, and that she was hacked. Oh, and some are saying the Russians did it. The FBI is now conducting an investigation, but there appears next to zero evidence to suggest Reid was hacked (via The Atlantic) [emphasis mine]:
The posts had been dug up on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, which maintains copies of many pages on the web. When Reid said she’d been hacked, many jumped to the conclusion that it was the Wayback Machine that had been hacked. On its blog, the Internet Archive said that Reid’s lawyers had contacted them about a possible hack, but that they had no indication that one had occurred.
“This past December, Reid’s lawyers contacted us, asking to have archives of the blog (blog.reidreport.com) taken down, stating that ‘fraudulent’ posts were ‘inserted into legitimate content’ in our archives of the blog,” they wrote. “Her attorneys stated that they didn’t know if the alleged insertion happened on the original site or with our archives (the point at which the manipulation is to have occurred, according to Reid, is still unclear to us).”
On review, the Internet Archive “found nothing to indicate tampering or hacking of the Wayback Machine versions
The Wayback Machine has been archiving posts for years and years, and in many instances, it re-crawls URLs. A blog post that went live in 2006 might have been indexed in 2007 and 2009 and 2011 and 2017. This is important because if Reid’s blog was hacked to insert new posts with old dates, the copies in the Internet Archive’s repository would have recent dates, even if they showed old time stamps on Reid’s site.
It’s not possible to view the Internet Archive’s public stash of Reid blog posts because Reid’s team recently inserted code into the site that prevents the Internet Archive from indexing it.
But the Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle confirmed to me that the Wayback Machine crawled Reid’s site back in the 2000s—and that there was nothing suspicious about the way the posts appeared in the archives.