Reid used offensive language to describe then-Florida Gov.
Charlie Crist, calling her word choice “insensitive, tone deaf, and dumb.”
“Miss Charlie, Miss Charlie.
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Stop pretending, brother,” she wrote in a 2007 post.
“It’s okay that you don’t go for the ladies.”
In her commentary on Crist, Reid would often resort to crass and homophobic descriptions.
He filed for divorce from his wife of 10 years, Carole Rome, earlier this year.
However, that clearly has not always been the case."
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At the time that the blog posts were written, Reid was a columnist for theMiami Herald.
However, that clearly has not always been the case.
My goal, in my ham-handed way, was to call out potential hypocrisy.
It was insensitive, tone deaf and dumb.
My critique of anti-LGBT positions he once held but has since abandoned was legitimate in my view.
My means of critiquing were not.
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.
I know better and I will do better.
