JOY REID’S BIRTHER DEFENSE:

Here’s where birtherism parallel comes in: To believe that version of events, you have to believe that some ten years ago an enemy of Joy Reid (a) Suspected that Reid would become a prominent media personality (she wasn’t when the posts were authored), (b) known that a left-wing gadfly would go trawling through her defunct website’s archives a decade later, and (c) that during the intervening years the conversation around gay rights would change so drastically that expressing opposition to gay marriage would become a career-ending transgression. (To reemphasize: During the period in question, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton also opposed gay marriage.)

Apparently Joy Reid has an enemy whose precog skills rival that of [Obama’s mother] Ann Dunham.

Between Reid, Brokaw, formerly beloved NBC superstar Bill Cosby, and the reports that “NBC faces doubts on harassment reforms,” the Comcast-owned network and its subsidiaries have had quite a week.