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In reply to the discussion: Pathetic. Incredibly snide tweet from Joy Reid about Joe Biden & his supporters. [View all]Celerity
(43,381 posts)Multiple internet archives had those posts real-time logged back years and years (some going back to 2007) before this came up. Some of those posts were from 12, 13 years ago, when she was a nobody. Not only that but dozens (hundreds?) of websites and archives (INCLUDING DU ITSELF) would have been had to been hacked back in 2006, 2007 and years and years afterwards, and meticulously replaced her posts (or made ones up out of whole cloth, AND exactly match each other one for years and years) with 'fake' ones, lolol.
She would have had to have been hacked real time, (going back to 2006.2007, etc) when almost no one outside of Florida knew her, back when she was a wee tiny small-time blogger. She was not on MSNBC then, she had a microscopic amount of influence then. All the archives verified they were NOT hacked. Also, IF the blog had been hacked back in 2006, 2007 and onward, then Reid (who RAN HER OWN BLOG) would have instantly noticed. The entries are sequential, she would have seen a 'hacked', 'fake' post as soon as she put up a new entry. It as not just ONE, it was many.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/claims-by-joy-reids-cybersecurity-expert-fall-apart
Reid demanded that Internet Archive completely remove ALL their entire archived pages of her blog. They said no (rightly so, as that is defeating the entire purpose of an archive), then Reid had an IT team put robots.txt blocking scripts up on HER servers, but that doesn't work on all archives (as you will see below). The whole story of 'hacking' is a joke, a bad one.
Here is the nail in the 'she was hacked' coffin of bullshit.
From DU itself.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210540836
I'm a fan of Joy Reid - also a fan of the truth...
And I want to get to the bottom of it - whether she's lying about these posts or she was hacked.
One thing I don't get is why one of the supposed hacked posts made its way to DU in 2007?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=221x48020
This post is very similar to one she claims is not true - which is linked from that post - about Tim Hardaway being a homophobe. In that article, she mentions men kissing and her disgust with it - which she also references in the Snickers ad post done about ten days before.
You can view these posts here:
https://archive.is/pMYl8
http://archive.is/rSO2i
So, my question is: if she is claiming these were all hacks, and one is clearly not a hack, how does she reconcile that? How can we believe some of the comments are fake when others, which are fairly bigoted (outright, actually) about men kissing, are, in fact pretty clearly her's?
There's no way this was hacked ... the post was clearly linked to DU by Ian David back in 2007. If that's real, despite the fact she's claiming it's not, how can we trust the others aren't, either?
I hate this. I love Joy. I don't want this to be true...but evidence is there.
snapshot of the 2007 DU post DI was talking about above (the link is in his post above)
here is the link again
https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=221x48020
Bottom line:
Patently ridiculous to suggest she was hacked. Laughable in fact.
A person would need a time machine and a team of hundreds to literally change and/or insert dozens or hundreds of sites and hundreds (probably thousands?) of individual entries/pages REAL TIME and for years and years moving forward and they would still fail. It is almost impossible to find EVERY single page on the web (and dark web) where a blog entry (and it's multiple entries in this case) has been re-posted or crawled and archived. DU itself (as shown above) is but one of dozens of smoking guns showing Reid DID POST that rot.
BTW, just to be fair to Reid, also laughable are the attacks now heaped upon her now because because she gored someone's sacred ox, but so many were happy to exalt her when she was attacking a target they did not like.
see here
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287135099#post93
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden