Posted on 04/01/2019 2:28:32 PM PDT by Ennis85
There is strong public evidence that Denise McAllister is savage and also a dope for openly criticizing her boss’s wife. But contrary to what the Twitter mob says, there is no evidence she's anti-gay.
McAllister, a conservative writer, was dropped Sunday as a contributor to the right-leaning Federalist and Daily Wire websites after a Twitter bender wherein she got into a back-and-forth with some critics.
The day before, McAllister had tweeted about trying to talk to her husband only to have him tell her, “Woman, you know better than this. The game is on.” She explained in a subsequent tweet that his remark was in jest, but nonetheless she “fetch[ed] him a beer,” and when there was a commercial break, he kissed her to show appreciation.
Yes, I gagged after reading the tweets, too. But the Twitter mob, almost exclusively a liberal phenomenon, kicked into gear, swarming McAllister with comments about her apparent subservience to her husband.
This is how the Internet functions now: Person you’ve never heard of says something even slightly debatable, and it turns into controversy you’re expected to care about.
It ended up costing McAllister some income after Yashar Ali, another journalist, highlighted her tweet, remarking “Oh Denise :(,” to which McAllister responded by mocking the fact that Ali is gay.
“A gay man commenting on a heterosexual relationship is just. Sad. Pathetic really,” Denise said in one tweet. “I think @yashar has a crush on me. Maybe I’m making him doubt his love of penis,” she said in another. In a third, “Oh so sad. @yashar is lost. He doesn’t know his purpose as a man. He doesn’t know his purpose as a human being. He doesn’t know his purpose as an Individual. So he wallows and tries to find himself in another man’s ***hole. Sad.”
Without any condescension at all, Ali tweeted, “I guess Denise is not happy that I’m worried about how her husband treats her.”
This is what the passive-aggressive leaders of the Twitter mob do. They pick up on a comment that, God forbid, some people might disagree with, and then they share it with their thousands of followers knowing full well that all of them will horde the person who was unlucky enough to have believed she could speak freely about her marriage.
Shortly after McAllister’s tweets went up, the Daily Wire and Federalist stated they were no longer working with her. It probably didn’t help that McAllister just a few days before had publicly criticized Federalist founder Ben Domenech’s wife, Meghan McCain of ABC’s “The View,” as a “mental midget.”
A news write-up in the Washington Post referred to McAllister’s comments about Ali as “homophobic.” CNN’s S.E. Cupp called McAllister a “raging homophobe.”
Is McAllister a homophobe? I have no clue. I’ve never met her and had never heard of her until Sunday. She didn't return a message I sent her for comment. But no one who has suffered through the insufferable Twitter mob can blame her for her temporary insanity. 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.
Just an average day on Twitter.
When will conservatives (Federalist!) learn not to cave?
It probably didn’t help that McAllister just a few days before had publicly criticized Federalist founder Ben Domenech’s wife, Meghan McCain of ABC’s “The View,” as a “mental midget.”
Miss Piggy is married??? Who knew!
Or how about simply “stay off Twitter”?
"The Federalist" married to "The View". It reminds me of Mary Matalin and James Carville; sleazy con artists with no real principles playing, both sides.
Sounds like Ali got butthurt after his concern troll fail.
She and Domenech fell in love over their shared hatred of Donald Trump. That might be literally true.
Phew! Can you imagine that?
Yashar Ali is the one who was called by an executive with MSNBC demanding that he kill a scoop for the benefit of the DNC.
The impression I have of most all the "social media" sites, a mass of liberal think.
I thank God that I never got on twitter, fakebook, instainsanity or any other form of self debasement. I get into enough keyboard spats with FR and most of the folks here are reasonable, {most of the time, so am I}.
I tried gab for about a week, saw where it was going, and bailed out.
I have no reason to tie up any of the few hours I have left on this planet, getting into verbal altercations with some one I don't know and don't care about.
President Trump seems to enjoy it and he can communicate with millions, and I'm OK with anybody that wants to spend their own time tweeting...enjoy.
That's what is most frustrating. This was a giant nothingburger. She even apologized profusely (and she didn't need to).
We give the Twitter mob (all SJW leftists) way too much power.
Conservatives have got to stop cutting their balls off.
And when will conservatives and libs realize that many women just DON’T LIKE GAY MEN. Especially these days with same sex adoptions and transgenders - the majority of whom are men.
The problem isn't conservatives on Twitter. The problem is conservatives on Twitter behaving like complete pussies for the whole world to see.
You’re smart.
“When will conservatives (Federalist!) learn not to cave?”
That bunch, never. Spineless.
When they become conservatives.
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