Here’s the apology-

This note is my apology to all who are disappointed by the content of blogs I wrote a decade ago, for which my choice of words and tone have legitimately been criticized.

As a writer, I pride myself on a facility with language — an economy of words or at least some wisdom in the selection. However, that clearly has not always been the case.

In 2007 I was a morning talk radio host and blogger, writing about Florida politics (a blog I maintained until 2011.) Among the frequent subjects of my posts was then-governor Charlie Crist, at the time a conservative Republican, whose positions on issues like gay marriage and adoption by same-sex couples in Florida shared headlines with widely rumored reports that he was hiding his sexual orientation. Those reports were the subject of lots of scrutiny: by LGBTQ bloggers, writers and journalists, conservative blogs, a controversial documentary film called “Outrage,” and even by the comedic writers at South Park. But it was my own attempt at challenging Crist on my blog that has now raised the issue of not just my choice of words, but what was and is in my heart.

Let me be clear: at no time have I intentionally sought to demean or harm the LGBT community, which includes people whom I deeply love. My goal, in my ham-handed way, was to call out potential hypocrisy.

Nonetheless, as someone who is not a member of the LGBT community, I regret the way I addressed the complex issue of the closet and speculation on a person’s sexual orientation with a mocking tone and sarcasm. It was insensitive, tone deaf and dumb. There is no excusing it – not based on the taste-skewing mores of talk radio or the then-blogosphere, and not based on my intentions.

In addition to friends and coworkers and viewers, I deeply apologize to Congressman Crist, who was the target of my thoughtlessness. My critique of anti-LGBT positions he once held but has since abandoned was legitimate in my view. My means of critiquing were not.

In the years since I went from blogger to opinion journalist, I have also learned, through brilliant friends and allies in the LGBT activist community, how to better frame my critiques of those who challenge people’s right to love who they want, marry them, and walk in the world as fully free people.

Re-reading those old blog posts, I am disappointed in myself. I apologize to those who also are disappointed in me. Life can be humbling. It often is. But I hope that you know where my heart is, and that I will always strive to use my words for good. I know better and I will do better.

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Insert fart noise—> HERE.

WHAT A PANT LOAD.

Time and time and time again leftists are outed making disparaging comments about gays, blacks, Muslims, poor people, refugees- you name the minority group and I’ll show you the off-color remarks made by prominent leftists.

Hell, there was that San Francisco freak, Larry Brinkin, the gay rights activist and champion for black causes, who was discovered on a message board for pedophiles saying, “I loved especially the ni**er 2 year old getting nailed.”

People were SHOCKED that a leftist could be so full of hypocrisy. I wasn’t. The left sidles up to minorities to gain power while they hold their nose.

Joy wants us to believe that she was using gay slurs to simply taunt Crist into “coming out,” and that she was actually an ally of the gays.

Of course. It makes perfect sense. If you’re angered by a guy who votes for anti-Israel measures, but you suspect that he might be hiding an actual Jewish heritage, what you do is call him a dirty, rotten, filthy kike.

Then when your epithets are discovered years later you say, “some of my best friends are Jewish.”

If you’re on the left, it works. You get the free pass. That’s why the left are dirty, rotten, filthy people.

I beg any leftist to challenge my premise. All I would have to say is, “Matt Lauer, solid leftist, feminist, sensitive to women’s rights, bent a woman over a chair and raped her until she passed out. Shocking, wasn’t it? Shall I cite more examples?”

It’s such a stretch to believe Joy Reid still harbors anti-gay sentiments, and is now going to “work on it” since she’s been caught?