Eddie Scarry, Who Posted Inappropriate AOC Photo, Defends Denise McCallister's Homophobic Comments
Washington Examiner writer Eddie Scarry wrote a controversial opinion piece on Monday in defense of homophobic remarks Denise McCallister made Saturday toward journalist Yashar Ali. Instead of denouncing her comments, Scarry argued McCallister was being "righteously angry."
McCallister was fired from her contributing role at The Federalist, a conservative news outlet, on Sunday following anti-gay tweets she made toward Ali. She disclosed details about her marriage in regards to her husband on Saturday, tweeting how her husband's "right" and she "slipped" for "trying to talk to my husband while Carolina is playing." Ali retweeted McCallister's initial response by highlighting the part where she wrote, "He's right. I slipped." He, in turn, added: "Oh Denise."
McCallister, unamused, said "a gay man commenting on a heterosexual relationship is just. Sad. Pathetic really." In a separate tweet, she seemingly teased Ali by suggesting he had a "crush" on her and that she is potentially "making him doubt his love of penis." Despite her seemingly homophobic remarks, Scarry suggested that there was "no evidence" that McCallister is "anti-gay."
"No one who has suffered through the insufferable Twitter mob can blame her for her temporary insanity," Scarry wrote via the Washington Examiner. "It is hell to sit through what McAllister undoubtedly knew would be days' worth of nameless, pictureless people in her Twitter mentions, attempting to shame her for expressing a view that isn't uncommon—which can essentially be summed up as 'pick and choose your marital battles.'"
"McAllister hit back at Ali where she thought it might hurt because she knew what he was encouraging the Twitter mob to do to her. That doesn't automatically make her a homophobe. It makes her a righteously angry woman," he added.
This isn't Scarry's first brush with controversy. Scarry shared a photo to Twitter in November 2018 questioning whether Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez looked like "a girl who struggles."
"You wrote an idiotic, inaccurate, and poorly written opinion essay in the Examiner," Ali tweeted Monday. "You aren't some random person who tweeted something. So quit your fake victimhood. Also, let's be real @eScarry, you are loving it."
Scarry responded to the journalist's tweet by referring to Ali, who writes for Huffington Post, as an "internet mob leader" who knows "exactly what they're doing when they disapprovingly call attention to comments that are even SLIGHTLY debatable." He also deemed Ali as potentially being "pathological."
"Journalist @yashar is a Privileged Victim," Scarry wrote in a separate tweet. "Sics his mob on people he disagrees with while pretending to be oppressed for the purpose of attention and money. Works for him very well."
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