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Report: Joy Reid Blog Painted Sen. McCain as VaTech Shooter

Report: Joy Reid Blog Painted Sen. McCain as VaTech Shooter
MSNBC host Joy Reid (Joshua Blanchard/Getty Images)

By    |   Thursday, 31 May 2018 07:42 PM EDT

Another skeleton from Joy Reid's old blog closet was unearthed Thursday — a photoshopped image of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., as the 2007 Virginia Tech shooter.

Exposed by BuzzFeed News, the October 2007 post from her defunct blog — early on in McCain's failed presidential race — was titled "Baghdad John Strikes Again," and shows his face on the body of Seung-Hui Cho, who killed 32 people on the college campus in April 2007.

It also includes McCain's vow at the time to follow al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden "to the gates of hell to capture him."

The creepy musing was exposed a day after BuzzFeed unveiled a 2006 blog post of the MSNBC star in which she jumped on the bandwagon for a debunked conspiracy documentary about the 9/11 terrorist attacks being carried out by the U.S. government. InfoWars founder Alex Jones was involved in production of the film, BuzzFeed noted.

The latest posts add to previously exposed blog-rants in which Reid expressed anti-gay views — even as Reid herself, who has both apologized and blamed hackers for the toxic posts, has been publicly scolding Roseanne Barr for her racist tweet about senior adviser for President Barack Obama Valerie Jarrett.

Though Barr's show was swiftly canceled in the wake of the slur, Reid has survived at MSNBC for months in the wake of her posts, critics complained.

National Review's Jim Geraghty tweeted Thursday that "Roseanne's gotta go, but MSNBC host Joy Reid gets a pass for homophobia AND 9/11 Trutherism? Man, being a liberal provides more protective armor than an Iron Man suit."

Fox News carried a headline Tuesday: "Tone-deaf MSNBC slammed for bringing on Joy Reid to discuss Roseanne Barr's social media slur."

MSNBC has refused to comment on the host's situation, but it appears to be standing by her, Politico noted.

Reid hosts a two-hour show on MSNBC on Saturday and Sunday mornings, but offers commentary throughout the week. She co-hosted a townhall on race Tuesday on the network in which Jarrett appeared to comment on Barr's racist tweet.

"This is not new," Reid said Tuesday about Barr's tweet. "If you're able to think of people as somehow less a person than me, it makes it a lot easier to then take that next step and say this person shouldn't be in this space."

According to Politico, MSNBC has previously cited ongoing law enforcement investigations as a reason for its silence, but the network has not disclosed whether it is doing its own investigation into Reid.

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Joy Reid's old blog closet unearthed another questionable propaganda item Thursday, a photoshopped image of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., as the 2007 Virginia Tech shooter, according to BuzzFeed News.
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