Pressure mounts on MSNBC, Joy Reid after old blog reveals attack on Wolf Blitzer, AIPAC

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Another controversial post from MSNBC host Joy Reid's now-defunct blog was unearthed late Thursday, adding to pressure on the network and its anchor to offer an explanation.

The post includes sharp criticism of CNN's Wolf Blitzer for being "a former flak for American Israeli Public Affairs Committee" (AIPAC) while accusing the veteran anchor of not hiding "his affinity for his Israeli guests, or his partisanship for their cause."

The Blitzer post, which was discovered by The Federalist —a conservative online publication — on Thursday comes one day after BuzzFeed found a post on Reid's old blog that showed a photoshopped image of Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) head on the body of the shooter who carried out the mass shooting at Virginia Tech that killed 32 people.

"With the Israeli ambassador, Blitzer was solicitous, even posing the incredible question of ‘what can we do’ about the deteriorating situation," reads the Reid blog post from 2005.

"We??? Would that be we Israelis or we in the United States, Wolf? Mr. Blitzer, a former flak for the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) — though you’d never know it from his CNN bio — has consistently carried on that job in another form in his capacity as CNN host," it continues.

"He doesn’t even try to hide his affinity for his Israeli guests, or his partisanship for their cause, while turning instantly to prosecutorial mode when questioning any guest who has the dumb luck to be an Arab or Muslim in King Blitzer’s court," the post adds.

Reid, the host of "AM Joy" on weekends on MSNBC and a rising star at the network, last commented on the contents of her old blog, "The Reid Report" on April 28, saying the posts "are completely alien" to her and she believes they were the work of hackers.

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/390204-pressure-mounts-on-msnbc-joy-reid-after-old-blog-reveals-attack-on-wolf