late 2017,[27] and again in April 2018, Twitter user @Jamie_maz[28] reproduced posts written between 2007 and 2009 on Reid's former blog Reid Report which, as The Nation described it, "us[ed] the trope of gay sex to mock politicians and journalists."[29] Following criticism, Reid apologized, calling the posts "insensitive, tone-deaf and dumb."[30] A second batch of posts gained attention, which described kissing between men as disgusting to straight people, accused gay men of being "attracted to very young, post-pubescent types", and declared opposition to same-sex marriage. In one post, Reid wrote about her views: "Does that make me homophobic? Probably."[31] Reid claimed she did not remember making those posts, and asked lawyers to investigate if her blog or its archives might have been hacked,[28] though Wayback Machine, where the posts had been found, said it detected no evidence of hacking in the archived versions of her site.[28] The second batch of posts prompted LGBT advocacy group PFLAG to rescind its plan to give Reid an award,[32] and The Daily Beast to suspend future columns from her.[33][34] An analysis published by that website thoroughly disputed her claims of being a victim of hacking.[34] Reid opened the April 28, 2018, edition of AM Joy with an apology.[35] Responses to her apology tended to be divided along party lines.[36]
In April 2018, blog posts from 2005 through 2007 were brought to public attention. According to The Washington Post, Reid's controversial remarks included encouraging her readers to watch the film Loose Change and saying of Israel "God is not a real estate broker. He can’t just give you land 1,000 years ago that you can come back and claim today."[37] Reid claimed Jewish people spend half a million dollars on their bar and bat mitzvah celebrations.[38] She also described CNN's Wolf Blitzer, who is Jewish, as a "former flak for the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee [sic]" who "doesn't even try to hide his affinity for his Israeli guests, or his partisanship for their cause".[39] The Zionist Organization of America called for MSNBC to fire Reid for promoting "sinister anti-Semitic canards".[40] Another controversial post, from 2007, contained a photoshopped image of Senator John McCain's face superimposed on the body of Seung-Hui Cho, who perpetrated the Virginia Tech shooting.[41]
In June 2018, Reid formally apologized for her past writings, saying, "I'm a better person today than I was over a decade ago. There are things I deeply regret and am embarrassed by, things I would have said differently, and issues where my position has changed. Today I'm sincerely apologizing again."[42] MSNBC expressed its continued support, saying in a statement that some of the blog posts were "obviously hateful and hurtful," but that they were "not reflective of the colleague and friend we have known at MSNBC for the past seven years"[42] and that "Joy has apologized publicly and privately and said she has grown and evolved in the many years since, and we know this to be true.". Apparently not true at all....
