On a day when people are already demanding that liberals address the double standard against Roseanne and Joy Reid, it looks like she has way more to answer for than previously known.
MSNBC host Joy Reid encouraged readers of her now-defunct blog to watch an infamous 9/11 conspiracy documentary, according to recently discovered posts shared with BuzzFeed News.
A March 22, 2006, post to her weblog, Reidblog, archived by the Wayback Machine and titled “The official story,” links to Loose Change 9/11, a viral 80-minute web video originally released in 2005. Loose Change, which was produced in part by Infowars’ Alex Jones, alleged that the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center were in fact planned by the US government. The central claims in Loose Change have been widely debunked.
“The fundamental question is: do you believe the official story of 9/11?” the post reads. “If you do, great. If you don’t, then everything that happened after that is called into serious question. Even if you’re agnostic, or you tend to believe that al-Qaida attacked the World Trade Center and Pentagon and that the government had no warning such a thing could happen, it’s worth taking a second look.”
Neither Reid nor MSNBC responded to requests for comment.
WOW. Loose change is widely known among nutty conspiracy theories, and its been debunked many times, so its pretty insane for an MSNBC host to have bought into its claims. I know many are tempted to say, “oh well they’re all that crazy,” but this is actually exceptionally nuts, even for MSNBC. Not only that, but Joy Reid has been heiled as one of the more intelligent “intellectuals” on the left – this shows she’s no better than a leftwing version of Alex Jones….