Reid insists that homophobic... (Associated Press) 
 
 NEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC's Joy Reid, under fire for homophobic language in old blog posts, apologized Saturday for any past comments that belittled or mocked the LGBTQ community and says she hasn't been able to verify her claim that her account was hacked. The host of MSNBC’s weekend show AM Joy has been under fire for newly uncovered blog posts published on Reid’s now-defunct blog, the Reid Report, in the mid-to late 2000s that repeatedly mocked gay people and specific individuals who were allegedly gay. Other posts made derogatory remarks about gay people, claiming that “most straight people cringe at the sight of two men kissing” and that “adult gay men tend to be attracted to very young, post-pubescent types.” One post acknowledged, “Does that make me homophobic? In those past posts, Reid wrote that then-Florida Gov. Charlie Crist as "Miss Charlie" and suggested he was "ogling the male waiters" on his honeymoon after marrying his wife, whom he has since divorced. Reid opened her weekend show "AM Joy" by acknowledging has said "dumb" and "hurtful" things in the past. Reid has denied posting them altogether but says security experts she hired who looked into whether she had been a hacking victim found no proof. But I can definitely understand, based on things I have tweeted and have written in the past, why some people don't believe me," she said. pic.twitter.com/PWjdPfs5KB — MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 28, 2018 
 
 “I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things, because they are completely alien to me,” she added. "I have not been exempt for being dumb or cruel or hurtful to the very people I want to advocate for. And for that, I am truly, truly sorry.” 
 
 Reid also hosted a panel with LGBTQ activists about the blog posts, telling them to “feel free to grill me.” And she apologized for newly resurfaced tweets in which she made transphobic remarks that suggested conservative pundit Ann Coulter is a man. Reid initially claimed she was hacked 
 
 In a statement to Mediate on Monday, Reid at first said that the recently resurfaced blog posts were “fabricated”: 
 
 In December I learned that an unknown, external party accessed and manipulated material from my now-defunct blog, The Reid Report, to include offensive and hateful references that are fabricated and run counter to my personal beliefs and ideology. "I look back today at some of the ways I've talked casually about people and gender identity and sexual orientation, and I wonder who that even was. After acknowledging the lack of evidence for the hacking claim on Saturday, Reid said on her show that she herself has changed: “The person I am now is not the person I was then. I like to think I’ve gotten better as a person over time — that I’m still growing, that I’m not the same person I was 10 or five or even one year ago.
– MSNBC's Joy Reid, under fire for homophobic language in old blog posts, apologized Saturday for any past comments that belittled or mocked the LGBTQ community and says she hasn't been able to verify her claim that her account was hacked, the AP reports. Reid opened her weekend show "AM Joy" by acknowledging she has said "dumb" and "hurtful" things in the past. "The person I am now is not the person I was then," she said. But she was unable to explain blog posts from a decade ago that mocked gay people and individuals who were allegedly gay. Reid has denied posting them altogether but says security experts she hired who looked into whether she had been a hacking victim found no proof. "I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things because they are completely alien to me. But I can definitely understand, based on things I have tweeted and have written in the past, why some people don't believe me," she says. "I have not been exempt for [sic] being dumb or cruel or hurtful to the very people I want to advocate for. ... And for that I am truly, truly sorry." The posts that came to light in December were written for "The Reid Report," her blog when she was covering Florida politics a decade ago. In posts, she refers to then-Florida Gov. Charlie Crist as "Miss Charlie" and suggested he was "ogling the male waiters" on his honeymoon after marrying his wife, whom he has since divorced. Click for the full story or take a deep dive with Vox into Reid's posts and hacking claims.