Katie McHugh, the Breitbart writer who tweeted a number of incendiary remarks in the immediate aftermath of the London terror attack, is no longer with the right-wing news site, four sources familiar with the situation told CNN.
Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow announced McHugh's departure internally Monday morning. After this article was initially published, McHugh herself confirmed she was out, tweeting, "Breitbart News fired me for telling the truth about Islam and Muslim immigration" and posting a link to a fundraising page started to support her on the fringe right website WeSearchr.
McHugh had ignited controversy on Saturday night when she wrote on Twitter that "there would be no deadly terror attacks in the U.K. if Muslims didn't live there."
"You're a real moron," actor Pej Vahdat replied.
"You're an Indian," shot back McHugh, incorrectly identifying the ethnicity of Vahdat, who is Iranian-American.
Seems pretty cut and dried, right?
I mean after all Breitabart cannot defend having such an Islamophobic racist white nationalist on their payroll.
The problem is that this McHugh woman has been an Islamophobic, racist, white nationalist all along.
As demonstrated by her numerous inflammatory tweets:
The only way to strike a balance between vigilance, discrimination, (& terror) is to end Muslim immigration. #CNNDebate #IstandwithAhmed— Katie McHugh🇺🇸 (@k_mcq) September 16, 2015
Indian tribes never bothered to build any kind of civilization. They killed each other and chased bison. Yawn~ https://t.co/U0B0lAPqqq— Katie McHugh🇺🇸 (@k_mcq) September 17, 2015
British settlers and their descendants built civilization. Indians never bothered to build more than a few teepees. https://t.co/2uGuMKjNnJ— Katie McHugh🇺🇸 (@k_mcq) September 17, 2015
Mexicans wrecked Mexico & think invading the USA will magically cure them them of their retarded dysfunction. LOL. https://t.co/H5D7YFLGNQ— Katie McHugh🇺🇸 (@k_mcq) September 17, 2015
Well she seems nice.British settlers built the USA. "Slaves” built the country much as cows “built” McDonald’s. Amateur… https://t.co/bOIXSpbpxB— Katie McHugh🇺🇸 (@k_mcq) September 17, 2015
So the question to ask is since this McHugh woman's opinions were out there for everybody to see for themselves, what took Breitbart this long to be outraged?
Or are they even outraged, or instead simply bending to public opinion?
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