Breitbart News Editor Says She Was Fired After Anti-Muslim Tweets -
By DANIEL VICTORJUNE 5, 2017
A Breitbart News editor said on Monday that she had been fired from the conservative news
site for the anti-Muslim tweets she sent after a terrorist attack in London on Saturday.
“As President Donald Trump says, if we don’t get smart, it will only get worse.”
Dismissing a writer for professing anti-Muslim beliefs might appear out of character for Breitbart News, which has often defended
writers besieged by criticism from the left on free-speech grounds, considering them to be victims of political correctness.
Shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday, Ms. McHugh tweeted, “There would be no deadly terror attacks in the U. K. if Muslims didn’t live there.”
She further inflamed critics with her back-and-forth with the actor Pej Vahdat.
But Ms. McHugh said her dismissal from the news site was related to several tweets on Saturday that drew widespread attention, including a CNN report.
In February, Milo Yiannopoulos, one of Breitbart’s biggest stars who took glee in provoking
liberals, resigned from the site over his glib remarks about pedophilia.
