NBC’S JOY REID: I DID NOT HAVE TEXTUAL RELATIONS WITH THOSE BLOG POSTS.

“I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things because they are completely alien to me. But I can definitely understand, based on things I have tweeted, have written in the past, why some people don’t believe me,” she said. “For that, I am truly, truly sorry.”

Or as Dan Rather said in September of 2004, when Rathergate first broke and was struggling (in vain as it ultimately turned out) to save his gig at CBS, “If the documents are not what we were led to believe, I’d like to break that story.”

Related: Joy Reid’s Old Blog Posts Are Forgivable. Her Response Isn’t.

(Headline by the Columbia Bugle.)