Joy Reid's Defenders Praise Her Apology -- But Ignore Her Apparent Cover-Up (Huffington Post)

[Cuthbert Allgood]

63. No, they have not been made.

I was basically called a right-wing shill for not believing her hacking story. In a bold moment of irony, I was told I didn't understand how the internet worked when I said it would be near impossible to hack the multiple internet archive stores of her blog.

But now that it is clear that she was lying about the "hacking," it's all good and "don't beat a dead horse."

Frankly, fuck that. Until those that defended her and accused anyone who doubted the story of being a right-wing, racist, misogynist apologize for the way they treated those that dared to actually question what was, frankly, a laughable lie about hacking, I think it's fair to say this.

We can't just let people slide because they are on the left. Do I have a problem with Joy and want to see here gone? No. Of course not. Do I want to give her a pass for lying? Hell no. She had the perfect opportunity to talk about her growth as a human and how she regrets the views she held a decade ago and what she has learned in that decade. But, no, "I was hacked."

And even now, it's "well, I guess I wasn't hacked but I don't really remember writing those things." Uggh. We would never accept that from someone on the right; we shouldn't accept it from our own.