‘Too Racist for Breitbart?’ Twitter Points and Laughs as Fired Breitbart Writer Whines Online
Katie McHugh, who was fired from Breitbart after an incendiary remark she tweeted in the wake of the London Bridge terror attack received widespread condemnation, took to Twitter Monday to complain about her ouster and seek cash to help with her newfound unemployment.
Breitbart News fired me for telling the truth about Islam and Muslim immigration. https://t.co/IRAUOj6pIL #LondonBridge
— Katie McHugh?? (@k_mcq) June 5, 2017
Breitbart cut ties with McHugh — who has a history of making incendiary comments on Twitter — on Monday, after she said that there “would be no deadly terror attacks in the U.K. if Muslims didn’t live there” in a tweet.
After CNN’s Oliver Darcy reported that McHugh’s colleagues at Breitbart were angered by her tweet, McHugh retweeted an account that called her fellow staffers ‘“Cucks,” “pussies,” and “losers.”’
Now without a job, McHugh again took to Twitter to confirm she was fired “for telling the truth about Islam and Muslim immigration,” as well as to announce she was seeking to raise $10,000 to help her with medical bills while she searched for a new job.
In her fundraising post, she claimed her former employer “squealed at pressure from leftist CNN, which apparently has anonymous pro-Islam sources at Breitbart.”
McHugh complained that Breitbart was “silencing” her for “telling the truth about Islam,” and declared it’s “time to let the losers on the Left and on the Right know that we will support the truth tellers that they try to silence.”
In response to McHugh’s appeals to raise $10,000 in the wake of her firing for comments that were apparently too incendiary for Breitbart, Twitter reacted appropriately:
Man would I like to read a Katie McHugh profile. There don’t seem to be any. Maybe she’s in the 30 under 30 issue of Der Sturmer.
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) June 5, 2017
Katie McHugh was guilty of having the terrible judgment to openly espouse a sentiment Breitbart hides behind one thin layer of gauze
— Kilgore Trout (@KT_So_It_Goes) June 5, 2017
I don’t think there’s any such thing as “too racist for Breitbart,” but clearly there’s “too obvious,” and Katie McHugh reached it.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) June 5, 2017
However much you may despair at her ignorance & prejudice, #Breitbart regular Katie McHugh shows where #LondonBridgeAttack debate heading. pic.twitter.com/WMLnHotrEN
— Andy Davies (@andrewdavies251) June 4, 2017
I don’t understand how so many of these Breitbart writers like that Katie McHugh become so broken so young.
— I’m So Over This (@Johngcole) June 5, 2017
Getting canned at Breitbart for being too racist – that’s like a first time achievement unlock, no?
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 5, 2017
It turns out you can hate Muslims too much to be employed at Breitbart: https://t.co/rSIK9fL6l7
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 5, 2017
Next up, the Daily Stormer
— Zack Kopplin (@ZackKopplin) June 5, 2017
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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 5, 2017
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