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In reply to the discussion: You know, I've been on DU for sixteen years... [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)I've lived in the UK for a decade. I don't watch MSNBC (or TV news, generally); I keep up with US political news via DU, the Guardian, the BBC, the Washington Post, NYT, Daily Beast, Vox, etc.
I'm 100% convinced that she wrote those posts, because the evidence from various web archives is incontrovertible, and the idea that she was hacked, and unaware, and that posts she did not herself author appeared on an actively maintained blog without being noticed, is not credible. And I am also aware of her personal history of making casually homophobic and transphobic comments, on Twitter and also in her blog; she apologised for some of those comments, this past December, and these new blog posts are not out of character when considered in the light of things she's admitted to and said elsewhere. I would not have a problem if she had said "mea culpa, yes, I said those things, it was over a decade ago, and along with many other Americans, I have grown and evolved on this issue, and I sincerely apologise for the things I said then and any hurt my words may have caused"...but, she went straight to "I was hacked", which is not plausible in light of the evidence.